lead Devops engineer

Min $105,600 – Max $158,400

The Lead DevOps Engineer is responsible for the availability, reliability, performance, capacity, scalability, maintainability, and survivability of the ecommerce websites, applications, services, and the hosting infrastructure. Architecting and design are big critical elements of the role

And will need to function as an enabler of the development community, by educating them and helping evangelize agile principles by helping craft solutions that fit a design principle of “deploy when ready”

The SRE focuses on the automation and observability of SDLC processes, and of privately hosted and cloud based ecommerce websites, applications, services, and infrastructure; addresses ecommerce websites, applications, services, and infrastructure issues; contributes to ecommerce R&D processes and innovation; and engage in continuous service improvement.

This role will act as an engineering mentor – providing technical leadership and expertise with projects and mentoring the team members for professional growth.

Engineering Responsibilities:

• Definition and Formulation of SLAs, and SLOs and Error Budgets for the SDLC processes, ecommerce websites, applications, services, and hosting infrastructure.

Quality assurance of all engineering outputs.

• Monitoring of ecommerce websites, applications, services, and the hosting infrastructure.

Interface with the IT organization, the business, and enterprise

Specific Ecommerce Websites, Applications, Services, and Infrastructure Responsibilities:

• Program/write tools, applications, services, scripts, instrumentation, etc., to automate SDLC processes, to deploy infrastructure as code, to handle complex and/or repetitive configuration and OAM tasks, and as needed in the course Sprints.

• Design, provision, configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems and related infrastructure for ecommerce websites on privately hosted and cloud-basedenvironments.

• Assist in the development of CI/CD pipelines, branching strategies, and environments.

• Assist with release management and deployment.

• On-Call support rotation.

• Provide support for ad-hoc requests and issues related to infrastructure, applications, and websites.

Requirements:

Must Have:

• Experience as a SRE, DevOps Engineer or equivalent software-engineering role

• 5 years of experience in an IT engineering/administrator role.

• Proficient in UNIX/LINUX systems administration, networking, security, and scripting of OAM tasks.

• Expert knowledge of configuration management tools (Ansible), infrastructure provisioning tools (Terraform), CI/CD tools (Jenkins), and version control with Git

• Expert knowledge of container technology and tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)

• Polyglot Programming proficiency in at least one general purpose programming language (Python, Java, C++, Go).

• Expert knowledge of AWS

• Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases

• Working knowledge of networking especially VXLAN, SDN, DNS

• Proficient working with open source technologies

• Expert knowledge in websites, applications, services, and hosting infrastructure monitoring and event management with AppDynamics, Splunk, Prometheus, etc.

• Expertise in software development methodologies

• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in a 24×7 operation

• Engineering leadership and ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Creative engineering and problem-solving mindset

• Ability to break down tasks into stories and deliver incrementally

• Strong communication skills

Great to Have:

• Ecommerce background

• Exposure to Openshift, Tekton, and/or code security checks in a pipeline

• Ecommerce InfoSec experience

• Experience with Redis, Varnish, and/or Akamai

• Solid understanding of modern software architectures

• RH, Ansible, AWS, and Kubernetes Certifications

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