DevOps Engineer I

General Summary:
The DevOps Engineer I will be located in our Portsmouth, NH office and part of the team that is responsible for building, deploying, and operating MMIS infrastructure and applications. We are looking for someone to work in a fast-paced, evolving, and growing environment. The ideal candidate will work with developers and teammates in troubleshooting problems, identifying resolutions, and assessing situations in real time. Our team is empowered to keep our fast-paced, high volume processing environment operational for our clients.

Essential Job Functions:
Maintain several systems using Chef and AWS OpsWorks

AWS experience with Elastic Beanstalk, OpsWorks, RDS, and various other services

Build, maintain, and use modern CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins (and/or GitLab)

Experience managing source control/repositories (Git, GitLab, GitHub)

Must collaborate well with architecture leads in designing and developing systems

Obsessive attention to detail and correct operation of all systems

Monitor software and systems to detect issues with New Relic, CloudWatch, and Kibana

Provide production support for various teams and systems within the company

Share on-call responsibility with other team members to ensure 24×7 availability of services

Work through correcting and building tools internally within the team

Work with developers, and QA teams to ensure reliable delivery of our projects

Competencies Required:
BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent work experience

3+ years’ experience working with JavaEE application stacks

3+ years’ experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

Experience with building modern CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins

Experience with configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible, Puppet)

Experience with databases (MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL)

Experience with Docker containers in Elastic Beanstalk or Elastic Container Service

Good knowledge of TCP/IP, ICMP, SSH, LDAP, DNS

Good knowledge of installation and administration of Linux/Unix systems

Good knowledge of IT Support processes and SLA management

Good knowledge of infrastructure as code a plus (Terraform, Cloud Formation)

Strong programming abilities in at least two languages (Ruby, Groovy, Python)

Preparation, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Expects personal performance and team performance to be nothing short of the best

Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions – copes effectively with complexity and change