Sr. DevOps Engineer

As Our Sr. DevOps Engineer you will...

Be Accountable and Responsible

• Set up, maintain, and monitor production servers, applications and infrastructure, as well as staging, testing, and development environments.
• Work with Tech Directors, Architects and Senior Developers to plan cloud-based hosting environments/configurations based on client needs
• Coordinate with client IT and InfoSec teams/representatives on planning, maintenance, and assessments of hosting environments
• Maintain relationships with hosting account managers 
• Be the first line of support for production-level issues, working with other development team members and hosting provider support teams
• Configure and maintain development tools such as CI/CD, environment automation, code quality, and testing tools
• Continual evaluation of internal and technical processes for automation opportunities
• Work closely with the MERGE Director of Information Security to ensure that production environments are hardened and monitored
• Participate in new business efforts by helping to estimate costs for hosting environment and production-level support, where required

These are the qualifications we’re looking for

• 5+ years of experience with DevOps with 2+ years of pipeline management, setting up, and deploying software to cloud systems
• Strong technical experience with cloud-based hosting environments in Rackspace and Azure  (Windows Servers support and Azure is a must. AWS or GCP a plus) 
• Experience maintaining Microsoft-based server and Virtual Windows systems 
• Strong understanding of DNS, SSL, firewalls and networking concepts (VPC, subnetting, VPNs, etc.)
• Able to design enterprise-level production system architectures, taking into account scalability, security, and performance
• Experience deploying and maintaining DevOps tools related to Source Code Management, Configuration Management, Continuous Integration, Contiguous Testing, Continuous Monitoring, Containerization
• Strong foundational knowledge in IT infrastructure knowledge such as, performing backups, upgrading, and patching, performance tuning, monitoring, alerting, deployments, and disaster recovery
• Experience or knowledge in managing Atlassian/ SaaS services
• Ability to troubleshoot issues across hosting infrastructure (networking, OS, storage, etc.) 
• Proficient with automated tools, can judge what’s worth automating, and loves finding ways to do so
• Experience using Git as version control, Continuous integration experience with Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab CI/CD
• Understand clustering and working with servers in a clustered environment.
• Scripting experience (Python, Node.js, or similar) for administrative tasks
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple projects while meeting stringent deadlines
• Experience hardening production environments to ensure security, monitoring for intrusion attempts, and resolving issues over time. Able to work with and advise development teams on key issues.
• Snyk a plus
• Experience maintaining AWS and Linux environments a plus
• .NET framework a plus
• Strong communication skills, verbal and written

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