Devops Engineer

DESCRIPTION:

- Key member of our SPSS Platform team, responsible for building the next generation of hosted products and platform services for our public safety customers around the world.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Take ownership and drive efficient development processes through an obsession with clean automation
- Create efficient automated deployment workflows supporting development through testing and production deployment
- Design and implement architecture to support rapid scaling and high availability utilizing intelligent automation and recovery
- Analyze failures and design monitoring, logging, and Real Time recovery systems
- Create and support automated testing deployments, triggers and notifications
- Support and build effective environmental methods of scale testing and performance/stress testing
- Manage diagnostics and assist team in resolving escalated issues related to service outages and configuration issues
- Directly contribute to the architectural direction and progress of web development systems

SKILLS:

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

- Experience building complex web systems at scale.
- Bachelors Degree is required, preferably in a technical area of study
- 3+ years of DevOps experience, 5+ years preferred
- Production application experience with public web applications; You should have experience with public cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, etc.
- Experience with big data technologies (Kafka, Storm, and/or Hadoop, in particular) are a plus
- Proven abilities to build and maintain a continuous deployment environment
- Experience in system administration, cloud service management, and deployment
- Expert with Linux - specific experience with full stack web deployments using Ubuntu and/or CoreOS a plus
- Experience with big data deployments (Kafka, Storm, and/or Hadoop, in particular) are a plus
- Knowledge of software technologies: Docker, libvirt, Pacemaker, HAProxy, Nginx, libvirt, RDBMS, and Git
- Scripting languages Bash, Ruby, and Python with Java a plus
- Experience with Salt or other similar configuration management tools
- Strong database management skills including a good knowledge of database scaling and SQL
- Good knowledge of networking including, Switches, Firewalls, Routers, load balancers, virtual networks, etc
- Must have recent experience
- Testers must have heavy automation experience