Unanet, Inc.
Sterling, VAAs a member of the newly-formed Cloud/DevOps group, you will help continue to define our transformation towards an enterprise SaaS solution, hosting numerous top-tier customers.
We’re looking for an operations engineer with a development background who has operational experience and expertise spanning high-availability systems in both lower and production environments, a DevOps mentality of continuously improving the system, and a firm grasp on automation and cloud architectures.
You must have extensive experience supporting applications developing in .NET, Java, and JavaScript.
You should also be passionate about solving problems and developing creative solutions leveraging automation. Your First Three MonthsIn your first month, as your familiarity with the product grows, your responsibilities and influence will grow as well.
You, along with your team, will be responsible for supporting the product team’s operational needs in our upper environments.
Further, you will collaborate with other members of the Development and QA team in established patterns and continue to hone your skills as you start to formulate ways to push the design, architecture and implementation of our CI pipelines (lower and upper environments) to their next phase.Within two months, you will fill in the gaps to have a well-tested, low-latency and highly available environment for our product operational needs.
Working with the development team, you will start to implement out the gaps in creating and supporting a truly scalable product offering.
You will be highly influential in the formation of the rest of our operations team as you help hire our next operations engineer.
Your team will be responsible for supporting production environments.Within three months, you will help drive changes to the operational and development roadmap as we continue onboarding new and existing customers into our hosted production environments in 2020. What You’ll DoDesign, provision, configure and maintain the operations platform to handle the scale of running several application stacks in the cloud that will be consumed by thousands of customers nationwide and our internal Product Team.
Responsibilities will include:Automating the deployment and maintenance of cloud platform technologies in both upper and lower environmentsImplementing and overseeing log management, data warehouse, and database operations, including management of Logging/Audit servicesEnsuring all monitoring systems (infrastructure- and application-level) are in place; report on availabilityDesigning and implementing strategies around disaster recovery and security for all sub-systems in infrastructure (e.g., web servers, database, queues, storage, network)Aiding in improving the overall product through development task specific automation in the lower pipelineIntegrate static analysis tools in build pipeline (security, code quality, etc.)Add database deployment capability to release pipeline (automate schema changes across all databases)Incorporate test automation into build pipelineSeparate code from configuration in build/release pipelineResearching and implementing emerging virtualization techniques and advising management around improved scalabilityBuilding strategic and tactical plans for continued improvement of cloud architecture and operationsPerforming capacity management, load and scalability planningHelping drive process improvements for service management, including: outage/incident management, rollbacks and reportingAssisting management in development and optimization of operational cost modelsAssisting in the establishment of 24x7 performance monitoring, reporting and response protocols With the help of your team and the development group, you will provide on-call support outside of normal work hours/daysAbout YouYou’re driven, humble, and autonomousYou’re a quick study, a strong communicator, and you’re able to adapt to fast-paced environmentsYou have a working knowledge of Agile Development practices (e.g., SCRUM, TDD)You are (or have the mindset of) a developer, but are intrigued by the operational aspects of hosting developed solutionsYou’re devoted to automationYou have 3-5 years of hands-on production experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure, including:Configuration of VPCs, with VPN to corporate networkExperience setting up, maintaining and monitoring global production environments, QA and staging environments, with a strong understanding of the differing needs of such environments2+ years of experience in a professional production environment 2+ years of experience managing networking infrastructure and monitoring at the application levelPerformance optimization experience, including troubleshooting and resolving network and server latency issues, performing hardware evaluation/selection tasks, performance vs.
cost vs.
time analysis At least 1 year of experience with automation or scripting tools (e.g., GO, Python, Shell, PowerShell) 2+ years of experience with Ansible, Jenkins or other comparable toolsYou’re detail-oriented, with excellent documentation skills, and you’re someone who can successfully manage multiple prioritiesTroubleshooting skills that range from diagnosing hardware/software issues to large scale failures within a complex infrastructure Other Things We Hope You Have Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experienceExperience with Relational Databases such as Oracle and Aurora, Splunk (or other log aggregation tools), Grafana, Terraform and PrometheusExtensive production experience with MS AzureExperience working with Docker, Kubernetes and hands-on experience with performance, load and security penetration testing Hands-on experience with building out and maintaining a continuous integration and delivery pipelineOur Team You will be a member of what will ultimately be a three-person team of Cloud Ops Engineers.
You will report directly to our VP of Cloud Ops & Security, but will collaborate extensively with our Principal Cloud Ops Engineer, Director of Development and the rest of our Development Team.We have an open and collaborative environment where everyone works together to deliver what is needed, from product features to operations needs (e.g., health checks). We value open and direct communication, taking calculated risks that will push us forward, and investing in our people. Our Stack We have current Production and Continuous Integration footprints in Azure and AWSOur front-end applications leverage .Net, Vue.js and JavaOur APIs comprise of .NET and javaOur backend comprises of MS SQL Server, Oracle and AWS AuroraWe currently have a CI pipeline that we are looking to take to the next level to help with our growth in customers and employee base
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