Principal DevOps Engineer

Engage what matters.

At Pointillist, we’re looking to fundamentally change the business of marketing. Our marketing intelligence platform allows marketing leaders to understand customer experiences across channels, programs, and over time.

You have a passion for building a Continuous Deployment environment with automation playing a central part to delivery.

We are a fast paced start-up organization working to build the next generation of Innovative Analytics products. We believe in the motto of “Mistakes are ok, going slow is not”.

Your Role: Principal DevOps Engineer

Pointillist is looking for an experienced Principal DevOps engineer to join our Operations team. You will play a key role in building and operating the world’s best real-time, big data collection and visualization system. As a Senior member of the engineering team, you would be responsible for furthering the technical vision and lead the implementation for fault tolerance, performance enhancement, and configuration management.

You will also spend a significant amount of time in guided exploration of new technologies and solutions that are applicable to the short, medium, and long-run goals.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for activities that ensure the security, quality, performance, reliability and stability of all of Pointillist’s production systems and services.
Supporting and continuing to evolve existing infrastructure to meet current and future demands in multiple environments (Production, Demo, QA, Development…)
Designing and implementing high-quality infrastructure solutions with an appropriate balance of security, maintainability, scalability, and performance.
Conducting research, providing recommendations and implementing new solutions to enhance our product suites.
Collaborating with and providing assistance to engineering teams as we work together to create new and enhance existing solutions.
Configure and Manage in-house tools such as JIRA, Confluence, RunDeck …
Work closely with engineering teams to create consistent and repeatable code and server deployments
Facilitate Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, and Continuous Deployment

Skills and Experience:

BS degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or related technical field
Experience with several of the latest toolsets for AWS, cloud automation, containers, orchestration, CI/CD, performance tuning, and application monitoring
Expert proficiency in Linux system administration
Experience in managing/deploying Cloud-based infrastructures (AWS experience preferred)
Familiarity with CM tools such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible
Strong scripting skills in Python and/or Perl and UNIX shell scripting
Proficiency in at least two of the following database technologies – Cassandra, MySQL, Redis, Redshift
Monitoring/Alerting systems experience with at least some of the following: Graphite, Cacti, Nagios, Collectd, NewRelic, PagerDuty, Pingdom…
Experience with Network diagnostic tools such as tcpdump, Wireshark, traceroute, ping
Strong attention to detail and emphasis on security
Experience with incident management/postmortem process
Ability to work well in a team-oriented design and implementation environment.