DevOps Engineer

About the Role
We are seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer who loves automation and cloud to join our growing team in Helena. The ideal candidate is a person who fully embraces the use of tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Consul and has experience in high-traffic environments, supporting highly scalable cloud based applications.

Our core infrastructure is hosted on AWS running Linux/CoreOS and Docker, but you don’t have to be an expert in all of these; we’re looking for world-class engineers to support our constantly growing infrastructure and applications.

By joining SoFi, you’ll become part of a forward-thinking company that is transforming financial services. Ranked as one of the fastest growing fin tech companies in the Bay Area, we’re 700+ employees strong. We offer the excitement of a rapidly growing startup with the stability of a seasoned management team.

Key responsibilities include

• Support the large infrastructure running Linux in AWS.
• Work closely with a team of developers, database and QA engineers, to understand and anticipate the agile infrastructure needs of the development and testing processes; create an environment where development and QA work can proceed securely, efficiently, and flexibly.
• Provide for and anticipate horizontal scaling of environments and anticipate infrastructure growth as the business grows.
• Improve the continuous testing and deployment process.
• Work heavily using Docker/CoreOS/Kubernetes/Terraform for configuration management.
• Provide networking expertise to the team.
• Work collaboratively to provide infrastructure guidance to the team for short-term issues and long-term planning and vision.

Requirements

• Expert knowledge of Linux Systems Engineering.
• 2+ years’ experience with standard Linux/UNIX daemons (apache, nginx, ssh, cron, bind, ldap, syslog, ntp).
• Demonstrated proficiency writing complex scripts in a standard scripting language (Bourne shell, Python, Ruby, Perl), and some experience in a traditional programming language (C/C++/Java/Go).
• Extensive knowledge of virtualization and containerization technologies.
• Experience supporting databases (MySQL/Postgres, MongoDB).
• Experience supporting high traffic web environments.
• Experience with continuous deployment.
• Experience working with a modern configuration management tool such as Chef, Puppet, Docker, or Ansible; thorough understanding of configuration management concepts.
• Work and play well with others; SoFi is a collaborative environment

Plusses

• Knowledge of Consul, CoreOS, Redis, and ActiveMQ
• Experience using distributed source code management tools such as Git or Mercurial
• Knowledge of Atlassian’s suite of tools, JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, BitBucket.
• Knowledge of AWS and familiarity interacting with the AWS APIs; experience with networking, properly architecting high availability systems, and security in an AWS context

Personal Attributes of the Ideal Candidate Include

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced growing company.
• Enthusiasm for solving challenging problems.
• Team attitude: a willingness to roll up your sleeves, work with others and get stuff done.
• Self-starter with strong interpersonal and communication skills

Benefits

• Catered lunches, a fully stocked kitchen, and subsidized gym membership.
• Competitive salary packages and bonuses.
• A flexible vacation policy allows you to truly relax and reboot.
• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance as well as disability benefits.
• 100% of health, vision, and dental premiums paid by SoFI for employees and their dependents.
• 401(k) and education on retirement planning.
• Tuition reimbursement on approved programs, up to $5,250 a year.
• Monthly contribution to help you pay off your student loans.

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