What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior DevOps Engineer position at Virtual Force Inc.?
Description
Responsibilitis:
Responsibilitis:
- Provides direct and responsive support for urgent analytical needs.
- Participates in architecture design activities.
- Collaborates with others on the project to brainstorm about the best way to tackle a complex technological infrastructure, security, or development problem.
- Ensure high-availability, performance and scalability and security of the production systems
- Implement 24/7 monitoring of production systems
- Implement best practices to ensure 100% uptime
- Troubleshoot deployment / production issues
- Identify and implement automations to improve DevOps operations
- Apply industry best practices to implement system specific CI/CD processes
- Maintain documentation of all systems, processes and practices.
- BS in Computer Science, IT, IS, or equivalent area of technical study
- Must have at least 6 years of related experience.
- Familiarity with container orchestration services, especially AWS ECS, Dockers/Docker Swarm and Kubernetes
- Knowledge of Infrastructure As Code: Ansible, Terraform, cloud formation
- Experience administering and deploying development CI/CD tools such as Git, Jira, GitLab, or Jenkins
- Experience working with performance monitoring tools such as New Relic / Datadog / Pagerduty
- Significant experience with Windows and Linux operating system environments
- Knowledge of cloud computing platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as PowerShell or Python
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with a keen sense of customer service
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Process-oriented with great documentation skills
- Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
- Experience with or knowledge of Agile Software Development methodologies
