DevOps Engineer

• Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to solve complex engineering challenges in existing cloud systems and automation processes to enhance developer productivity and streamline software release efficiency.
• Design and develop scalable/resilient/performant tools and automations that optimize the delivery of applications to cloud environments.
• Design/implement/maintain efficient and scalable CI/CD platforms and processes with a great developer experience in mind.
• Work closely with other platform partners (Cloud Infrastructure, Product Teams, SRE, etc.) to define standards and metrics to track platform efficiency and productivity and identify areas of improvement.
• Analyze, propose, and decompose complex software systems/architectures and influence others to improve the overall design towards more secure and fault-tolerant platform solutions.
• Lead and contribute engineering efforts to document technical design, planning, and procedures.
• Represent the team in internal and external technical forums.
• Participate in on-call rotation.

Additional Desired Skills

• Client or server side web application troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of observability practices, including log monitoring, metrics collection, and alerting in production environments.
• Container image building experience.
• Exposure to open source software, CNCF tools landscape.

Success in this role requires a self-driven engineer with very strong cloud automation and scripting skills, an aptitude for complex systems, and a high attention to detail. A collaborative spirit while working alongside our development teams is a must for this role.

**manager is looking for someone to come onsite at least once week.

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Minimum of a 4-year college degree.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in either platform DevOps or similar role supporting software engineering.
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure and services(Azure and GCP preferred).
• Hands-on experience with containerization and Kubernetes orchestration platforms(Azure and GCP preferred).
• Familiarity with distributed systems and data platforms typically found in e-commerce environments, such as Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, Elasticsearch, or equivalent technologies.
• Managing, configuring, and troubleshooting applications running on Kubernetes in production.
• Working knowledge of Configuration as Code(CaC) and/or Infrastructure as Code(IaC) solutions.
• Strong proficiency using various command line tools (KubeCTL, BASH, Git, Azure CLI, etc)
• Hands-on background in producing and maintaining clear, concise technical documentation for systems, APIs, and operational procedures.
• Intermediate to advance skills in one or more programming languages (Python/NodeJS/Java) and comfortable with open systems environments and Linux scripting experience.
• First-hand knowledge supporting/implementing CI/CD solutions via GitOps and tools such as Gitlab, Flux, Argo CD, Helm, etc.
• Self-motivated team player, ability to perform at a high level with minimal direction.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills, ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with other SREs, Engineers, Product Managers, QA Engineers, and Developers.
• No specific certifications required (cloud certs would be implied as beneficial but not mandated)