Responsibilities:

• Partnering with engineering to architect, build, and monitor highly available, performant systems
• Ownership over the monitoring and alerting infrastructure
• Ensuring the production environment and all user data are kept secure using best practices, tools, and patching strategies
• Ensure the production environment and all user data are kept secure using best practices, tools, and patching strategies
• Management of data replication, backup, restore, scaling, and redundancy.

Desired Skills:

• You have demonstrable experience managing production in multiple AWS environments
• You’ve built IaC with tools like Terraform or Ansible
• You’ve developed experience managing Linux/Unix/Ubuntu systems
• You’ve developed experience with and an understanding of designing solutions and best practices for CI/CD (Jenkins/Circle/CI/etc)
• You’ve setup and managed monitoring and alerting systems ( (such as Prometheus/ELK/Grafana/Cactus/etc)
• In addition if you have experience with Azure, Docker & Kubernetes, and supporting microservices environments it will offer added value for our environment

Success Attributes:

• You are an entrepreneurial leader who has a sincere passion for DevOps, and as such takes an simultaneously innovative and methodical approach to your work
• You are comfortable with ambiguity, likely developed through experiences within start-up environments, and enjoy and embrace new evolving challenges as your prior companies have grown
• You are capable of executing a high volume of daily production while always thinking about scale, and developing short term fixes that align with long-term solutions and needs
• You have developed and continue to maintain strong scripting skills, philosophically viewing it as critical to your ability to lead others
• In addition, you love automation and always seek out opportunities to maximize the efficiency of working rhythms and systems