Senior DevOps Engineer

Company:  Annalect
Location: Chicago
Closing Date: 08/11/2024
Salary: £125 - £150 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description

About Annalect

Annalect is the Data & Technology arm of Omnicom Media Group

Annalect’s 2,000+ innovators leverage data and technology to help clients across Omnicom build relationships that matter — whether that means fostering consumers’ trust in brands, building new experiences, or delivering advanced analytics where it’s most needed. Annalect is the driving force behind Omni, Omnicom’s unique open operating system, which works hand-in-hand with clients’ and partners’ data and tools, to orchestrate better marketing outcomes.

Annalect’s unique approach to data and technology – one that relies on transparency, neutrality, and interoperability – allows us to deliver purpose-built and scalable solutions that make data actionable. Our advanced teams of product leaders, data scientists, consultants, and engineers enable us to meet the business goals of our internal and external clients.

Team Overview

Annalect Devops is directly responsible for the 24x7 monitoring and maintenance of the Annalect platforms, working closely with technology leadership, and are ultimately responsible for ensuring technology quality and security. The DevOps team is the final ownership line for all clouds.

Position Overview

Annalect is looking for a Senior Devops Engineer to work in our Cloud based environment. The Senior DevOps Engineer will be directly responsible for the 24x7 monitoring and maintenance of the Annalect platforms, working closely with technology leadership, and be ultimately responsible for ensuring technology quality. This individual must have a proven track record of success managing/working in a functional and technical team with a strong sense of quality ownership for existing and new cloud based platforms and features. This is a hands-on position that requires strategic thinking and planning to provide expertise throughout the entire infrastructure and operational lifecycle, ensuring the success of the team's planning, building, operating, optimizing and automation efforts. This senior team member will provide mentorship and coaching to DevOps engineers and other technology team members.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support the cloud infrastructure for Development, Test, and Production environments.
  • Communicate with the product development teams in several geographical locations to produce requirements for infrastructure, networking, and operations toolsets necessary to provision and maintain product lines.
  • Review and establish best practices for CI/CD solutions in collaboration with teams.
  • Provision and set up all environments (Live, Staging, Dev, QA) and coordinate with teams to ensure environments meet company standards and best practices.
  • Perform release and configuration management.
  • Act as a technical delivery resource for project specific tasks.
  • Build and maintain the core technology platform monitoring services.
  • Build and maintain automated deployment of the platform’s cloud infrastructure.
  • Build and maintain secure continuous deployment pipelines and automat continuous security monitoring and alerting using cloud capabilities.
  • Help with threat assessment and penetration testing as early as necessary/possible.
  • Help identify problem points within the production environment.
  • Solve day-to-day operational problems with the production environment.
  • Ensure robust, stable, and secure back-end infrastructure to support product portfolio.
  • Support the development team during application enhancements.
  • Contribute to Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery design.
  • Stay up to date with industry trends.
  • Maintain JIRA data accuracy
  • Ensure top-notch documentation of code, data dictionaries and process flows
  • Maintain Documentation on Confluence
  • Translating business requirements to technical requirements
  • Establish and maintain policy for documentation of all Annalect technology products.
  • Provide monthly reporting metrics.
  • Document and ensure on the Annalect TIO WIKI platform details utilizing our Confluence site
  • Manage the relationship between the Applications team and all Technical Infrastructure and Operations teams – includes being the point of contact for new environments & architectural components when needed
  • Work with the AOK (User/Application support team), DevOps and Business Unit teams on any emergency issues

Required Skills And Qualifications

  • 7+ years of DevOps experience
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in administering cloud technologies on AWS, especially with IAM, VPC, Lambda, EKS, EC2, S3, ECS, CloudFront, ALB, API Gateway, RDS, CodeBuild, SSM, Secret Manager, Lambda, API Gateway etc.
  • Familiarity with working with data and databases (SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, Redis, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery). Knowledge of Database administration
  • Demonstrable experience of using Terraform to provision and configure infrastructure
  • Scripting ability – PowerShell, Python, Bash etc.Comfortable working with Linux/Unix based operating systems (Ubuntu preferred)
  • Familiarity with software development, CICD and DevOps tools (Bitbucket, Jenkins, GitLab, CodeBuild, CodePipeline)
  • Possesses a problem-solving attitude. Creative, self-motivated, a quick study, and willing to develop new skills
  • Experience with microservices, containers (Docker), container orchestration (Kubernetes), serverless computing (AWS Lambda) and distributed/scalable systems.
  • Experience with continuous deployment / continuous delivery (Jenkins, Bamboo)
  • AWS/GCP/Azure Certification is a plus
  • Experience in python coding is welcome
  • Passion for data-driven software. All of our tools are built on top of data and require work with data.
  • Knowledge of IaaS/PaaS architecture with good understanding of Infrastructure and Web Application security
  • Experience with logging/monitoring (CloudWatch, Datadog, Loggly, ELK)
  • Passion for writing good documentation and creating architecture diagrams

Perks of working at Annalect

  • Culture! We have an incredibly fun, collaborative environment that encourages engagement and work/life balance
  • Generous PTO that includes vacation days, personal days, a fantastic Summer Friday program and extended time off around the holiday season.
  • As part of Omnicom, we have the backing and resources of a global billion-dollar company, but also have the flexibility and pace of a “startup” - we move fast, break things, and innovate.

This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, other job-related qualifications/skills, and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, benefits include: health insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, 401(k), Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, vacation days, sick days, personal days, paid parental leave, paid medical leave, and STD/LTD insurance benefits.

Compensation Range

$112,000—$160,000 USD

Annalect, a division of Omnicom Media Group is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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