What are the responsibilities and job description for the DevOps Engineer position at FlightSafety International?
About FlightSafety International
FlightSafety International is the world’s premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. FlightSafety operates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and award-winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.
Purpose of Position
The Infrastructure Engineer proactively and holistically participates in and supports architecture / engineering activities that guide the development and management of technical and infrastructure solutions. These solutions enable the organization's future-state business capabilities and drive the organization's targeted business outcomes. Technologies include data center, infrastructure, cloud, mobile, AI, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, edge computing, and immersive experiences technologies. In addition, the Infrastructure Engineer creates deliverables that help develop target-state guidance (reusable standards, guidelines, individual parts, platforms, and configurations) for evolving the technical infrastructure across the enterprise to enable business strategy and deliver targeted business outcomes.
Tasks and Responsibilities
- 5 years of hands-on experience implementing, operating and maintaining infrastructure for high volume enterprise web applications.
- 5 years of experience in distributed system development (design and support of systems with scalability and disaster recovery robustness) to support compute use cases for business requirements.
- 5 years of implementation and operations experience with production systems in public cloud environments
- Hands-on experience automating infrastructure operations and with modern best practices such as infrastructure-as-code, cross-region & multi-provider redundancy, and event correlation solutions.
- Proficient with containerization and cluster management technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
- Deep understanding and hands-on experience with Cloud Native deployment and monitoring tools / technology with a expertise in areas like Kubernetes, Helm charts, container based deployment, Service Mesh, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
- Motivated by a DevOps culture and Site Reliability Engineering concepts.
Minimum Education
Minimum Experience
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
Physical Demands and Work Environment
The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met and / or encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and communicate. The employee may be required to stand, walk, and sit. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to view monitors, technical documents, and reference material. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.
FlightSafety is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Vet / Disabled. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.
