- Creating and implementing technical best practices for the platform team
- Launch the first version of the platform
- Lead & mentor other DevOps and platform members
- Document processes and best practices
- Collaborate and plan work estimates closely with other teams
- Lead, define and influence technical choices within interdisciplinary settings
What You'll Do
- Continuously improve self-service tools and processes to reduce cycle times for developers and automate repetitive and wasteful operations.
- Programming API’s and tooling to deploy and manage all aspects of the application lifecycle.
- Identify and remedy single points of failure and security risks.
- Build shared Docker base images, deployment scripts, and service templates
- Manage databases, caching servers, message queues, centralized logging, etc. including AWS Aurora, MySQL, MongoDB, and RabbitMQ.
- Maintain components of DevOps platform including Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, and Terraform. Interface with external logging, monitoring, and security vendors.
- Build out infrastructure code and provision resources in Terraform.
- Assist in troubleshooting issues within production.
- Maintain dependencies, vulnerabilities with package managers, like npm, pip3 and PyPy including the creation of eggs and client libraries
- Build templates for deployment of services in Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, and GitLab CI
- Plan and execute maintenance, upgrades, and migrations in Dev, Stage, and Prod in a way that avoids downtime and service interruptions
- Work to scale throughput and extensibility of our services with model pipelines.
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What You'll Need to Be Successful
- Minimum of five years relevant general programming and/or operations experience.
- Minimum of two years relevant Kubernetes administration experience in a production setting.
- Minimum of two years relevant Terraform experience in a production setting.
- Knowledge or experience with Golang, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Bash.
- Knowledge or experience in Linux-based infrastructures and Linux/Unix administration.
- Knowledge or experience with databases such as MySQL, Elasticsearch, or Redis.
- Knowledge or experience with project management and workflow tools, including Agile, Jira, and Scrum/Kanban.
- Knowledge or experience with open-source technologies and cloud services.
- Knowledge or experience in software development and infrastructure development.
- Knowledge or experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud offerings and other cloud providers.
- Knowledge or experience administering large Kubernetes clusters.
- Knowledge or experience with Terraform and Cloud Formation Infrastructure automation tools.
- Experience with security and compliance, such as FAPI, or technologies like JWT and oauth.
- Knowledge or experience working with banking technologies.
- Knowledge or experience working with containerization technologies, including Docker.