Ideal candidates for this position should possess a keen mind for solving tough problems with the ideal solution, partnering effectively with various team members along the way. They should be personable, efficient, flexible and communicative, possess a strong desire to implement change, growth, and maturity, and have a passion and love for what they do. This role comes with the opportunity to be a high performer within a department that’s fast-paced, dynamic, and quickly growing in all areas.

Responsibilities: 

• Strengthen our application and environment security, applying standards and best practices and providing tooling to make development workflows more secure


• Create, maintain, and iterate on our CI/CD processes for new and existing services


• Increase the sophistication of our alerting and escalation mechanisms


• Keep up to date on modern technologies and trends and advocate for their inclusion within products when it makes sense


• Help increase system performance with a focus on high availability and scalability


• Propose, scope, design, and implement various infrastructure architectures


• Work collaboratively with multiple agile teams to help deliver end-to-end products and features, seeing them through from conception to delivery


• Continue to Keep the Lights On (day-to-day administration)


• Help define, document, evolve, and evangelize high engineering standards and best practices across multiple areas


• Move quickly and intelligently - seeing technical debt as your nemesis.

• A successful track record as a DevOps / System Engineer


• Fluent in Python and Python testing best practices


• Experience working in and advocating for agile environments


• Extensive experience working within AWS and with it’s managed products (EC2, ECS, ECR, R53, SES, Elasticache, RDS, Redshift, etc)


• Strong experience working with automation tooling (Terraform, Ansible, etc)


• Strong experience with containers (Docker, Compose, ECS, Kubernetes)


• Strong experience with various managed and self-hosted CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, Travis, Drone, Mule, Spinnaker)


• Strong understanding of DNS, TCPDUMP, CDNS, SSL, Git, Firewalls and networking concepts (VPC, subnetting, VPNs, etc).


• Experience deploying microservice architecture, applications, and supporting services


• Experience working on high-traffic, international systems


• Familiar with software security best practices


• Understanding of monitoring tools (Pagerduty, CloudWatch, Datadog, Sentry, etc)


• An active member of the open source and New York tech community a plus


• Experience working within large-scale decoupled, service-oriented systems a plus


• An interest in the cannabis industry and / or the brand