SR DevOps

CNA Search is seeking a talented SR Dev Ops Engineer. This position is an engineering discipline that combines your systems engineering and software skills to build and run applications on a cutting-edge cloud native infrastructure using kubernetes, docker and more.

This position will help improve and maintain our platforms SLOs, help support the development team with CI/CD tools and run the production environment by monitoring availability and health of workloads.

Functions and Responsibilities

• Support the development, testing, deployment, monitoring and maintenance of our clients large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant platform software, marketing and eCommerce services.
• Participate in the automation, monitoring and maintenance of our clients cloud-native and multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters.
• Develop tools and automated solutions in support of platform services.
• Monitor and manage internal devops cases from intake to resolution in support of client services, software implementation, technical support and product/platform engineering.
• Troubleshoot performance, reliability, and scalability issues.
• Collaborate with application developers in the improvement of developer experience and toolsets.
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Maintain and administer data stores ensuring proper backup, replication and failover strategies.
• Ensure proper security, monitoring, alerting and reporting for production infrastructure.
• Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into functional architecture and software designs to solve customers use cases.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to application development, deployment and operation.

Minimum Qualifications

• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
• 5+ years full-time professional experience, or equivalent, with a good portion the following:
• Linux/Unix Server Administration
• Cloud systems administration (AWS, Google, Azure, etc.)
• CI/CD Automation (Jenkins, Jenkinsfiles, CircleCI, etc.)
• Kubernetes cluster administration in AWS, Google (Kubectl, Helm, Minikube, etc.)
• Application Containers (Docker, ContainerD, Docker for Mac)
• Scripting/programming languages (PHP, Bash, Go, Node.js, Python, etc.)
• Databases, NoSQL, Queues, PubSub and Cache (MySQL, MariaDB, AWS Aurora DB, Google Cloud SQL, Scylla/Casandra, Apache Solr, ElasticCache, Redis, Kafka, Amazon SQS, etc.)
• Websites, Web Services, Microservices (HTTP(S), Drupal, Wordpress, Nginx, Apache HTTPD, Kong, SOAP, OAS/Swagger, JSON, CSS, JS, CDN, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, AWS Lambda, Serverless, Letsencrypt, etc.)
• Application Monitoring and Profiling (Cloudwatch, Stackdriver, Graylog, Grafana, Prometheus, AppOptics, etc.)
• Ability to debug, profile and optimize code and application design and automate routine tasks.
• Experience with PCI-DSS or other compliance related certifications. (HIPAA, ISO2001)
• Experience creating and maintaining Jenkins pipelines.
• Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.