• Provides, informed, opinion and influences the direction of the DevOps platform, configuration management, build & deployment management, version control and site reliability related decision making 
• Articulates and guides development of tools and processes leveraged across the SDLC for continuous improvement in agility, quality and process/tooling maturity 
• Drive effort to mentor engineers on the DevOps team on proactive and reactive basis
• Continue consistent effort to shorten the release cycles, improve the supportability, enhance the performance and scalability of the application landscape 
• Building a highly scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure 
• Migrating existing applications to a new cloud infrastructure 
• Owning, maintaining and enhancing the infrastructure and related tools
• Design and implement monitoring and alerting for production 
• Work closely with developers and other staff to solve dev/ops issues with customer facing services, tools and apps 
• Schedule, communicate and execute maintenance windows where necessary, or prevent the need for them 
• Must be able to work in a fast paced environment with frequent deployments to production in a “0 downtime” environment.
• Responsible for coordinating all Application and Infrastructure changes through QA and into production 
• Ensuring change to the production environment does not impact system stability for our customers 
• Communicating and working with teams in a globally distributed environment
• Brings/Demos new tooling to the team with a view to improving how we operate
• Shares knowledge openly within the team and across engineering 
• Support the uptime and performance of our infrastructure in accordance with the defined SLAs for each product 
• Define and implement standardized monitoring, alerting and escalation processes for each application 
• Conduct root cause analysis on application and infrastructure issues including analyzing application server logs, recreating customer issues, analyzing traces 

Requirements 

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science. 
• A self-starter with a great work ethic and a high availability mindset 
• 4+ years of experience working in a DevOps role in a continuous integration environment & Delivery tools and frameworks 
• A high level of knowledge in emerging DevOps tools (Spinnaker, Packer, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins) 
• Working experience with Amazon AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFront, Route53, RDS, autoscaling, ECS, Redshift) 
• Strong knowledge of configuration management software such as Puppet or Ansible
• Experience adhering to an Agile development environment and iterative sprint cycle
• Experience with GIT, bitbucket, Github and the Gitflow branching model
• Experience working with third party infrastructure suppliers 
• Solid Linux knowledge (Ubuntu / Debian) 
• Comfortable with Linux scripting languages (Bash, Perl, Python) 
• Some knowledge of Ruby, PHP, Javascript is desirable 
• Ability to use a wide variety of technologies and tools such as NGINX, Varnish, Memcached, Redis, GlusterFS, ElasticSearch, Nagios, MySQL, MongoDB