DevOps Engineer

Job Description
DevOps Engineer / Greater Seattle area (Eastside)
• Designing and building infrastructure to support our client’s multi-region AWS based Cloud infrastructure /services

• Create and use tools to monitor our applications and services in the cloud including system health indicators, trend identification, and anomaly detection
• Automating system build outs and the application deployment pipeline using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Chef
• Working with development teams to help engineer scalable, reliable, and resilient software running in the cloud
• Enhance pro-active monitoring of systems, services and hardware to solve problems before they are noticed by internal and external customers?
• Create and use infrastructure automation and configuration management frameworks to create repeatable and deterministic environments that provide visibility into the health and reporting metrics of the system
• Provide and improve incident and problem management coverage and support
• Analyzing and monitor performance bottlenecks and key metrics in order to optimize software and system performance
• Provide and improve analytics and forecasts for cloud capacity, troubleshooting analysis, and uptime
• Participate in on-call escalation to troubleshoot customer facing issues (target rotation is once a week every two months)

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Qualifications
• BS in Computer Science / Engineering or related field
• 3 - 5 years Web Development or Operations background understanding concepts such as distributed systems, alerting, monitoring, logging, and incident management

• 3 - 5 experience implementing, troubleshooting, and supporting LAMP environments (Linux, Apache, MySql, and PHP)

• Understanding of one or more programming languages such as Java, Ruby, Perl, Python, or C++

• Experience with highly available distributed Linux server environments

• Understanding of Linux core fundamentals, command-line operations, scripting, and service monitoring?

• Firm understanding of version control systems such as subversion and git

• Experience with cloud infrastructure services a plus; specifically AWS EC2, S3, VPC, Route 53

• Experience with automation and configuration management using provisioning tools like Chef/Puppet

• Solid understanding of agile methodologies, working in small teams, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

• Firm understanding of networking concepts and technologies

• Outstanding oral and written communication skills

• Self-directed, team oriented, and business enab

Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.