Key skills
AWS ECSTerraformDockerGNU/LinuxSecurity best practicesNetworking best practicesCollaboration skillsCommunication skillsProblem-solving abilitiesAWSECSIAMDatadogCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Valpak is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to manage the DevOps process for Valpak Clipp, focusing on improving collaboration between development and operations teams. The role involves designing and implementing DevOps strategies to ensure efficient software delivery and working with developers to automate testing, release, and deployment processes.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain infrastructure systems that support the timely delivery of high-quality changes to production, enabling self-serve reversions by SLO owners and aiding in root cause analysis for change failures
- Collaborate with software developers, quality assurance engineers and IT professionals to guarantee smooth deployment, automation and management of software infrastructure
- Able to coach and influence others to up-level the craft of DevOps
- Own observability, monitoring, and alerting
- Identify, investigate, and aid in the remediation of risks to security
- Monitor, identify, and support the delivery of opportunities for performance and cost optimization
- Provide guidance on policies and procedures to support a high level of availability
- Manage and enhance cloud infrastructures
- Automating software deployment, configuration, and upkeep processes
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, then utilize them to enhance your software infrastructure
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or software engineering
- 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience on large-scale consumer-facing cloud-hosted ecommerce properties
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, demonstrated by driving successful large-scale infrastructure projects spanning multiple teams
- Hands-on experience with AWS ECS, Terraform, Docker, WAFs, DataDog, and AWS IAM
- Excellent proficiency with the command line and GNU/Linux
- High level of familiarity with security and networking best practices
- Data-driven experience planning, delivering, and validating improvements to scalability, costs, and performance optimizations
- Master's degree a plus