Key skills
KubernetesLinux server experienceInfrastructure as codeCloud platform (AWS/GCP)CI/CD pipelinesBash scriptingPythonMonitoring toolsDockerGit-based SCMAnsibleTerraformSystems AdministrationSoft skillsJavaRubyShellBashAWSGCPJenkinsTeamCityPrometheusGrafanaDatadogELK StackGitGitHubGitLabBitbucketSaaSCI/CDWAF
About this role
B-Stock Solutions is the world's largest B2B re-commerce platform, and they are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help automate, develop and maintain their SaaS infrastructure. The role involves building infrastructure, collaborating with developers, performing system monitoring, and automating various operational tasks.
Responsibilities:
- Build out infrastructure and tools while hardening security leveraging your years of Sys Admin experience
- Collaborate with developers on software requirements and empower them to self serve as much as possible while developing standards and guardrails to ensure fast, secure and quality deployments. Then automate
- Perform system monitoring and maintenance, including system administration on primarily dockerized cloud systems
- Tune performance and ensure high availability of infrastructure, including reviewing system and application logs
- Support, maintain, and troubleshoot production issues or alerts and improving repeatable and accurate runbooks
- Conduct post mortems or Root Cause Analysis on issues or outages and provide call to actions on areas to improve upon like prevention, maintenance and runbooks
- Automate creation and administration of user and service accounts
- Collaborate with the team on topics such as Network Operations, Incidence Response, Penetration/Security testing
- Develop and maintain configuration management solutions (Ansible, Terraform) with capacity planning in mind
- Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks
- Apply operating system patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities
Requirements:
- 6+ years of experience required
- 3+ years of experience working with Kubernetes
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer-related field or equivalent experience
- Proven Linux server experience including writing shell scripts, using the command line, networking & security
- Experience with Bash scripting and working knowledge of Python, Java or Ruby
- Experience working with Infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
- Experience with at least one of git-based SCM Devops platforms such as Gitlab, Jenkins, Teamcity, Bitbucket, Github
- Experience with monitoring, reporting , and alerting tools such as ELK stack, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana
- Experience with RHEL-based or Debian-based OS management and best practices
- Experience with at least one cloud platform like AWS or GCP
- Experience with maintenance and deployment of dockerized applications into the cloud
- Experience with building CI/CD pipelines in a multi environment platform
- Deep understanding of Internet fundamentals (TCP/IP stack, DNS, Email, Web, CDNs, WAF)
- Cloud Certification and any other DevOps Certification
- Systems Administration/System Engineer certification in Unix/Linux (RHCE/UCSE)