DevOps Engineer/Linux Enginner

Our client lives on the leading edge of all things digital, social, and emerging. Work here and you’ll be surrounded by eager and motivated souls who truly care about helping businesses succeed. They use an array of engagement tools you’ve probably only read about – around there they are a daily reality. If you’re looking for a company where you can see your contribution on a daily basis this is a job you should definitely check out!

We are currently looking for talented DevOps professionals who are ready to take their career and technical skills to the next level! If this sounds like you, please reach back to me ASAP and we can talk about moving your career path forward. This is FTE (Full Time Direct Hire) position, located in Minneapolis, MN. U.S. Citizens and all those authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to provide sponsorship at this time.

This position will be integral to the remote monitoring & management of global client infrastructure while providing timely response within designated SLA times to service effecting faults and performance issues. As an SRE you will work closely with the Company’s Network Operations Center to diagnose & characterize issues and with the Company’s Software Development Teams to provide architecture review and to develop infrastructure best practices. An SRE will be driven to build highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and easy to administer infrastructure. You must be pro-active and organized, diligent about documentation, and passionate about monitoring and automating everything.

Responsibilities:

Manage the availability, scalability and performance of the platforms.
Create the tools and infrastructure leveraged by the rest of the engineering teams
Diagnose and repair network, application, and hardware bottlenecks
Test and tune network, hardware, and software configurations to maximize performance
Deploy and manage monitoring and diagnostic tools
Guide our product and platform teams to keep new features fast and stable
Monitoring systems, databases and networks for proper operation and performance.
Providing a 7×24 on call support for the operations infrastructure.
Establishing recommended configurations for the applications operating environment, including computer hardware, storage, software and configuration necessary to properly host our applications.
Automate build and deployment processes in a hybrid (AWS + proprietary) hosting environment.
Create and maintain continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) environments to facilitate an agile development process.
Research, recommend and implement new technologies.
Work is generally expected to take place during normal working hours however the Technical Operations Team provides Tier2 and Tier3 7x24x365 on call escalation and candidates should be flexible with schedules to meet the needs and demands of the business.
Qualifications:
Strong knowledge of core Enterprise LINUX (Red Hat/CentOS) with a focus upon building, maintaining, securing and performance tuning systems.
Proven experience capacity planning, performance tuning, and infrastructure architecture. Experience scaling web, application, and data systems horizontally and vertically.
Experience with VMWARE and other virtual infrastructure platforms.
Experience with J2EE platforms, specifically JBoss. Knowledge of JBoss installation, JVM tuning and troubleshooting.
Experience with load balancer concepts including HA, VIPs, and SNAT.
High-level shell fluency + one or more scripting languages ( Python, Go, Perl, or similar ).
Experience managing and deploying full stack, distributed services.
Experience with system automation using Ansible.
Experience with monitoring, alerting, and pipeline analysis tools (Solarwinds or other).
Experience with queuing/data-pipelining.
Experience with SQL/NoSQL systems such as PostgresSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, CouchDB, or Redis.
Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently.
Hunger to solve the problem. No stone left unturned while searching for the solution!
Smarts, humility, and equal willingness to learn and teach
A sense of ownership, initiative, and drive
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Experience in the development of operational procedures, processes, and scripts
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience.
Substantial experience in operating 7 x 24 high-availability IT infrastructure in a highly transactional environment
5+ years of relevant work experience, including experience with high-volume, production distributed systems environment.
2-3 years in a Tier II or higher role