Staff DevOps Engineer

Nextiva is redefining customer experiences through innovative communication solutions. The Staff DevOps Engineer will be responsible for building, maintaining, and automating cloud infrastructure while collaborating with the Engineering team to implement optimal cloud-based solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Working in tandem with the Engineering team to identify and implement optimal cloud-based solutions for the company
• Managing cloud environments in accordance with security guidelines
• Educating teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives and providing relevant training
• Staying current with industry trends and making recommendations to help the company excel
• Promoting and training best practices with software development teams

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of software development or DevOps experience
• AWS/GCP Solutions Architect, Cloud Security, OpenStack Administrator and/or other cloud-related certification(s) required
• Expert level experience with cloud container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, GKE/ECS or related is required
• CI/CD and related experience with Jenkins, Github, Nexus, or similar technologies is required
• Experience implementing middleware technologies like Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ and NGINX
• Strong software engineering experience including client/server web development (HTML, JavaScript, Java), server administration, programming and automation
• Working knowledge of relational and non-relational databases
• Experience with application performance monitoring and logging tools like Datadog, Splunk, ELK
• Strong awareness of networking and internet protocols including TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP and distributed networks
• Extensive experience with open-source technology, software development and system engineering