What you will work on
A strong candidate for Platform/DevOps Engineer will support our team and be responsible for the management of day-to-day operations and maintenance of our cloud-based infrastructures to ensure smooth operation. The right candidate will contribute to DevOps, continuous delivery, cloud resource management (EC2, S3, EMR, etc.), system design, data access, operations. You will balance activities across development, staging and production environments and will work closely with Engineering and Product Owners across multiple squads to ensure accurate and timely deployment of customer’s solutions. Additional responsibilities include:
A strong candidate for Platform/DevOps Engineer will support our team and be responsible for the management of day-to-day operations and maintenance of our cloud-based infrastructures to ensure smooth operation. The right candidate will contribute to DevOps, continuous delivery, cloud resource management (EC2, S3, EMR, etc.), system design, data access, operations. You will balance activities across development, staging and production environments and will work closely with Engineering and Product Owners across multiple squads to ensure accurate and timely deployment of customer’s solutions. Additional responsibilities include:
- Enable productive workflow management and job orchestration via Airflow.
- Participate in system design planning and review to support a largely 24x7 operation.
- Participate in providing technology assessments in support of automation and technology migration initiatives.
- Recommend improvements; maintain/supervise production and non-production systems to ensure infrastructure performs at maximum efficiency.
- Recommend system design and configuration that minimizes cloud consumption costs.
- Provide support of our applications, including resolving blocking issues and monitoring system performance of production platforms.
- Perform systems analysis and tuning to ensure efficient operating systems response for multi-user applications.
- Implement/maintain IT security guidelines.
- Use innovative methods and technologies to identify and tackle problems related to performance, scalability, reliability, and availability.
- Automating operational processes using scripting languages.
- Develop, implement, and continually improve system and monitoring and alerting capabilities and procedures.
- Write knowledge base documents to improve operations, SOP and chip in to IT organization.
- Work with Enterprise Platform team to demonstrate enterprise products and processes.
- Bachelors’ degree or equivalent work experience in a technical or quantitative field; Masters or MBA degree a plus.
- 2+ years project experience deploying cloud solutions (AWS)
- Amazon Web Services operation, maintenance, implementation and design
- Includes Airflow, Snowflake, EMR Clusters, EC2 management, IAM, Cloudtrail, Cloudwatch, Cloudformation, EBS management, AMI, Jenkins, containers and more.
- Experience working with big data technologies, e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Python
- Strong scripting for task automation in Python or other scripting language
- AWS or other cloud management system APIs.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Cloud technology
- CICD tools and processes
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ensuring that solutions demonstrate industry standard methodologies.
- Proven ability to generate and maintain user documentation.