DevOps Engineer

What you will do:

This role is for a high-performing, hands-on DevOps engineer committed to the practices required to support critical customer-facing platforms requiring consistent uptime while driving continuous improvement and innovation.

Participate in small-team initiatives to continuously refine our deployment practices for improved reliability, repeatability, and security. You will create plans, collaborate with other DevOps team members, and coordinate with engineering and business teams. These high-visibility initiatives will help to increase service levels, lower costs, and deliver features more quickly.

Design effective monitoring / alerting (for conditions such as application-errors, high memory usage) and log aggregation approaches (to quickly access logs for troubleshooting, or generate reports for trend analysis) to proactively notify business stakeholders of issues and communicate metrics, working closely with these stakeholders.

Your focus will be:

• Ownership, architecture, and management of AWS infrastructure components such as VPCs, EC2, S3, CloudFormation, etc.
• Owning the technical design, and implementation of the automation technologies required for deploying, maintaining and operating platform infrastructure. 
• Creating the policies and procedures for properly supporting our rapidly growing microservice architecture.
• How you will make an impact:
• Deployment and management automation of cloud-based infrastructure and software
• Working with configuration management tools - Cloudformation, Terraform, Salt, Ansible, Chef
• Ensuring cloud-based architectures meet availability and recoverability requirements
• Implementation of cloud-based monitoring, and alerting
• Find scalability bottlenecks and areas for performance improvements
• Identify and drive opportunities to improve automation for the company; scope and create automation for deployment, management, and visibility of our services
• Active monitoring of risks to site SLAs and overall delivery.

How you will grab our attention:

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering 
• MBA or advanced degree highly desired
• AWS Certified
• 1+ years of experience managing AWS infrastructure
• 3+ years of experience with technical operations and software development
• Experience with one configuration management tool, i.e - TerraForm, CloudFormation, Salt, Ansible, Chef
• A strong software engineering or programming background. Any language is acceptable but prefer experience with one of the following: Python, Java, JavaScript, Go, or Mendix
• Monitoring / alerting tools such as New Relic, Site24x7, Pagerduty, etc.
• Experience with log aggregation tools such as Sumologic, FluentD, Scribe, Splunk

Skills & Abilities:

• Architecting and deploying advanced cloud infrastructures within AWS
• Solid understanding/experience of web services, databases and relating infrastructure/architectures
• Solid understanding of backup/restore best practices
• Experience with Amazon Web Services and/or any other public cloud
• Release software through tooling (git, Jenkins, custom scripts, Docker)
• Excellent Troubleshooting Skills
• Experience supporting an enterprise-level SaaS environment
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently
• Excellent written and interpersonal communication, and documentation skills
• Security experience a plus
• Excellent collaboration skills across Development and Operations 
• Can Do attitude with a penchant for getting things done

What eXp provides:

• Robust Medical coverage, as well as Dental & Vision benefits
• Company provided equipment; laptop, monitor, headset
• FSA plan
• 401k with a 4% match
• Stock option grant
• Fully remote environment
• Amazing company culture
• And more...