We are looking for an AWS DevOps Engineer/SysAdmin to monitor, manage, improve, and scale our AWS environment, and to work closely with the development team to streamline our development and release pipeline. 

 

The ideal candidate is a self-starter, has a high level of attention to detail, is comfortable asking questions, enjoys working with talented colleagues, and has an interest in analytics and data visualization.

 

Responsibilities include:

• Standard Linux systems administration tasks (performance tuning, back-up and recovery, monitoring, troubleshooting, installations, patches and upgrades, security, automation) 


• Management of dev, test, and production environments with configuration management (Ansible, Packer)


• AWS specific tasks (EC2, S3, RDS PostgreSQL/MySQL, VPC, Cloudformation, AutoScaling, CodeDeploy, ECS/EKS, cost management, etc.)


• Management of our Atlassian stack (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, etc.)


• Management of remote access for our distributed team (AWS VPC, OpenVPN, SSH)


• Assisting with the management of cloud data lake platform (Presto, Hadoop, Hive)


• Working with the development team to expand/improve our CI/CD processes and environments


• Some on-call/after-hours work required as-needed for upgrades, maintenance, migrations, etc.

Our team members can live and work anywhere in the United States or Canada. This is a part-time, 15-20 hours per week position. 

 

Skills & Requirements:

• Expert Linux systems administration skills (5+ years of experience)


• Expert AWS administration skills (2+ years of experience)


• Experience managing PostgreSQL


• Experience building and installing packages from source 


• Experience with Bash and Python scripting


• Experience with at least one config management tool (Ansible or Saltstack preferred)


• Understanding of CI/CD best practices and tooling


• Experience with containers, container orchestration, and cloud data lakes a plus


• Must work well independently


• Must have a high level of attention to detail


• Must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills

We look forward to receiving your application.