Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related technical field) or equivalent practical experience
4 – 6 years professional experience in DevOps
Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work with other developers, business analysts, testing specialists and product owners to create stellar software products
Have a strong sense of ownership.
Strong diagnostic, analytical, and design skills.
Closely follow industry trends and the open source community, identifying and proactively advocating for cutting edge tools that would optimize operational performance and/or reduce operating costs.
Have experience in regulated environments.
Care about quality and know what it means to ship high quality code and infrastructure.
Be curious and avid learner
Communicate clearly to explain and defend design decisions.
Self-motivated and excellent problem-solvers.
Driven to improve, personally and professionally.
Mentor and inspire others to raise the bar for everyone around them.
Love to collaborate with their peers, designing pragmatic solutions.
Operate best in a fast-paced, flexible work environment.
Experience with Agile software development.
Experience in mission critical Cloud operations and/or DevOps engineering
Have experience with AWS technologies and/or developing with Distributed Systems using Ansible, Docker, Puppet, Chef or Jenkins.
Strong understanding and experience working with Windows, Unix and Linux operating systems; specifically troubleshooting and providing administration.
Have experience with operating and tuning relational and NoSQL databases
Strong experience with Chef.
Familiarity with Kubernetes and microservices.
Have experience with performing support and administrative tasks within Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, OpenStack, or other cloud infrastructure technologies.
Proficiency in managing systems within multiple sites including fail-over redundancy & autoscaling (knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service).
Have experience deploying, maintaining and managing secure systems.
A background in software development, preferably Web applications.
Proficient in monitoring and logging tools such as ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana).
Have experience with build & deploy tools (Jenkins).
Have knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewalling.
Enjoy solving problems through the entire application stack.
Have been on the front lines of production outages, both working to resolve the outage as well as root-cause the problem and provide long-term resolution or early identification strategies