Lead DevOps Engineer

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Lead DevOps Engineer maintaining and improving software infrastructure at Xpansiv. Collaborating with teams to deploy, automate, and manage the software environment.

Responsibilities:

  • Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-native microservices architecture
  • Implement automation, effective monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code
  • Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
  • Support and work alongside a cross-functional engineering team on the latest technologies
  • Iterate on best practices to increase the quality & velocity of deployments
  • Have on call responsibilities in rotation with the engineering team
  • Increase the sophistication of our alerting and escalation mechanisms
  • Help increase system performance with a focus on high availability and scalability
  • Propose, scope, design, and implement various infrastructure architectures
  • Develop and maintain solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring
  • Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards, and make recommendations for improvement
  • Perform root cause analysis for production errors
  • Continue to keep the lights on (day-to-day administration)

Requirements:

  • BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
  • 12+ years of professional experience as a DevOps/System Engineer
  • Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale
  • A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Terraform, Powershell, Bash, Python, Ruby, etc.)
  • Practical experience with Docker containerization and clustering (Kubernetes/ECS)
  • Expertise with Azure, AWS or GCP
  • Version control system experience (e.g. Git)
  • Working knowledge of databases and SQL
  • Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
  • Operational (e.g. HA/Backups)
  • Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Powershell with DSC, Ansible, Chef)
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code
  • Experience in managing on-premise Active Directory and Domain Controller
  • Experience in managing on-premise infrastructure
  • Effective communication skills
  • Professional experience and a high-level understanding of working with various operating systems and their implications
  • Problem-solving attitude
  • Collaborative team spirit