Senior Engineer DevOps

Overview

Senior DevOps Engineer role at Empower supporting Personal Capital, focused on automation, cloud infrastructure and operational excellence for a financial services SaaS platform.

What you'll do

• Automate provisioning and configuration management following IaC best practices.
• Create and maintain automated scripts that build, configure, deploy and test applications across environments.
• Maintain, support and enhance the continuous integration environment.
• Reduce human errors and increase quality and security of product operation tasks through automation.
• Enable delegation of more work to the AWS platform and services so the team can focus on the business mission.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify development challenges and design tools, infrastructure and/or processes to improve productivity.
• Be a force multiplier for engineering teams by developing internal tools and applications.
• Balance short-term tactical tasks with long-term projects in a small, nimble team.
• Collaborate using excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Evaluate application performance and improve efficiency.
• Help determine system and application security requirements and develop security solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotation and troubleshoot production application issues.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, systems administration, or DevOps.
• Linux experience (CentOS preferred).
• Hands-on AWS IaaS administration (SDKs, CLI and console).
• Knowledge of object-oriented programming.
• Python / Go / Ruby / JavaScript.
• Ansible / Chef / Terraform / CloudFormation.
• MySQL database administration.
• MS in Computer Engineering or equivalent.

Nice to have

• Solid experience with AWS technologies such as EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, RDS, IAM, Lambda, DynamoDB and CloudFormation.
• Managing cloud-based infrastructure such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Developing automation using tools such as Ansible, Chef, and Terraform.
• Running Docker containers on Kubernetes (EKS) and Istio.
• Strong programming skills in some or all of: Python, Go, Ruby, JavaScript, Shell/Bash scripting, Java, HTML5 and CSS.
• Working knowledge of web and application server management and configuration (e.g. Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, JBoss, NodeJS).
• Highly skilled in building, optimizing, hardening and troubleshooting CentOS Linux operating systems.
• Understanding of relational databases, including MySQL.
• Understanding of how to build secure, performant, reliable and durable systems and architecture.
• Understanding of how to build RESTful APIs.
• Web frameworks such as Angular, React or JQuery.
• Code repository best practices: Git, GitHub, Git Flow or other workflows.
• Continuous integration tools such as Jenkins/Hudson, Harness, CircleCI, Maven, Ant, Sonar, Artifactory.
• Security-minded with an interest in protecting systems and infrastructure.
• Familiarity with cloud-based DNS and load balancing strategies.
• Monitoring production services using tools such as Datadog, Splunk and AppDynamics.
• Dynamic and creative, solution- and user-focused.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
• Flexible work environment as described by the employer.