Engage in and improve the software development lifecycle - from inception and design, through development, deployment, operation, and refinement.
Influence and design infrastructure, architecture, standards, and methods for large-scale systems.
Support services prior to production via infrastructure design, software platform development, load testing, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
Maintain services during deployment and in production by measuring and monitoring key performance and service level indicators including availability, latency, and overall system health.
Automate system scalability and continually work to improve system resiliency, performance, and efficiency.
Practice sustainable incident response as part of an on-call rotation and through blameless postmortems.
Remediate tasks within corrective action plan via sustainable, preventative, and automated measures whenever possible.
Requirements:
- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent job experience required.
- 11+ years of experience developing and/or administering software in Windows with Dotnet applications.
- Experience in monitoring infrastructure and application uptime and availability to ensure functional and performance objectives.
- Experience in languages such as Dotnet, Python, Ruby, Bash, Java, Go, Perl, JavaScript, and/or node.js.
- Demonstrable cross-functional knowledge with systems, storage, networking, security, and databases.
- System administration skills, including automation and orchestration of Linux/Windows using Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt Stack, and/or containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
- Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous delivery tooling and practices.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
Extra Points For Any Of The Following:
- Expertise designing, analysing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
- Take a system problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
- Experience managing Infrastructure as code via tools such as Terraform or Cloud Formation.
- Passion for automation with a desire to eliminate toil whenever possible.
- Built software or maintained systems in a highly secure, regulated, or compliant industry.
- Thrive in and have experience and passion for working within a DevOps culture and as part of a team.