DevOps Engineer
United States
Full-time
5 hours ago
H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
Cloud architectureKubernetesAWS servicesInfrastructure automationScripting languagesMonitoring toolsSecurity best practicesCommunication skillsTeam collaborationProblem-solvingPythonBashPowerShellAWSAzureGCPTerraformAnsibleECSEKSEC2RDSCloudFrontCloudWatchElasticsearchPrometheusGrafanaDatadogCommunicationCollaborationCloud Security
About this role
COOL Media is a company focused on enhancing user and advertiser experiences through innovative technology. The DevOps Engineer will collaborate with product and engineering teams to improve services, audit existing infrastructure, and create sustainable systems through automation.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate effectively with the product and engineering team to improve services through rigorous testing & release procedures
- Audit existing infrastructure for performance enhancements
- Build, gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
- Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
- Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
- Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service-level objectives
- Maintain high SLAs across all the products
- Stay abreast of infrastructure trends and push the tech forward whenever project feasibility arises
Requirements:
- 3+ years of hands-on experience building distributed architecture between a Cloud Provider like AWS / GCP / Azure and Dedicated On-Premise Servers
- Experience automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Terraform, Ansible, etc
- Strong experience in Kubernetes infrastructure and services like Kube DNS, Kubernetes Control Panel, Ingress Controller, ConfigMaps, etc
- Proactive approach to identifying problems, performance bottlenecks, and areas for improvement
- Extensive hands-on experience working with AWS services like EKS / ECS / ECR, EC2, RDS, VPC, ElastiCache, ALB, CloudFront, ElasticSearch, etc
- Expertise setting up logging, monitoring and alerts using monitoring tools like Cloudwatch, Prometheus/Grafana, NewRelic, DataDog, etc
- Expertise in continuous integration and testing frameworks
- Experience re-architecting and migrating infrastructure to keep up-to-date with the latest technologies and reducing infrastructure costs
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell
- Great communication, solid collaboration skills, with a strong teamwork ethic
- Able to search for possible solutions and apply them
- Strong understanding of security best practices to enhance cloud security
- Document architecture diagrams, processes, and procedures
- Must be able to work primarily between the hours of 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM ET
- Must have a player/coach mentality, willing to both execute and lead
- Ability to juggle multiple projects concurrently and set and meet deadlines
- Skilled at receiving and providing direct feedback
- Collaborative mindset and great teamwork skills
- Entrepreneurial & adaptable; great learning skills
- Curious, research-minded, data-informed
- Creative confidence
- Proactive communicator
- A sense of humor and a love of online culture
- Thrives in a start-up culture