RESPONSIBILITIES

The DevOps Team is responsible for the architecture, development, deployment, and operation of our systems. Collectively, the DevOps Team bears final responsibility for the security and health of our systems and of the data we store and process. You will be expected to share on-call duty with the rest of the DevOps Team and engineering staff. In this role, you will help build scalable and cost-effective pipelines to handle millions of real-time events while ensuring data security at all times. You will coordinate automatic deployment of machines, databases, and user access, develop disaster recovery programs, and provide assistance to development teams looking to make their software deployable, operable, and secure. You will help us make our distributed platform as reliable and scalable as it can be. 

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications:

• Strong command of Linux fundamentals (Debian-based distributions a plus)


• Experience with configuration management and automation tools (e.g., Puppet, Ansible, Chef, CloudFormation, SaltStack, Terraform)


• Programming ability in at least one language (e.g., Bash, POSIX shell, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)


• Experience with cloud-based systems engineering (AWS, in particular, is a plus)


• Experience with operating relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL)


• Experience with queuing systems (e.g., RabbitMQ, AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS)


• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related technical field


• Strong communication skills, especially among audiences with differing technical backgrounds

• Experience with Terraform or SaltStack in particular


• Experience with Debian packaging


• Experience with Docker or its ecosystem


• Programming ability in Python or Ruby in particular


• Experience with maintaining large, distributed systems


• Experience with persistent, distributed data stores (e.g., S3, HDFS, Cassandra)


• Experience with HIPAA compliance or HITRUST certification