DevOps (AWS/CentOS/RHEL) Engineer (Sr.) – Tulsa, OK or Los Angeles, CA (Relocation Offered and POSSIBLY OPEN TO REMOTE) Direct Hire/ Full Time Employee

TITLE: Sr. DevOps Engineer
LOCATION: Tulsa, Oklahoma, Los Angeles, Ca (by LAX) or Santa Clara, Ca (RELOCATION OFFERED and POSSIBLY OPEN TO REMOTE)
DURATION: This is a Direct Hire position
SALARY: To Be Discussed
STAFF TO OVERSEE: None at first
HIERARCHY: Reports to VPIT that DKKD staffed

• NOT open to Corp to Corp
• Those authorized to work in US encouraged to apply.
• DKKD Staffing does not sponsor and cannot support H1, EAD, etc. No outside agencies please.

General Job Summary:

Under the general supervision of the Vice President Infrastructure Operations, the Senior DevOps Engineer is a hands-on position and must be able to support all systems and services to ensure high availability and reliability. This is a hybrid position bridging traditional ops with AWS. If you are looking for a company who is implementing the latest and greatest technologies to provide great customer service to their clientele, then we want you. This company is growing rapidly with fresh new management looking for people who are willing to work in a fun start-up type environment.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and improve CI practices
• CD tooling
• Improve monitoring and alerting stacks
• Build and maintain highly available systems
• Lead and guide the team in identifying and implementing new technologies
• Monitor and Maintain the Production servers with 99.999% uptime availability
• Prepare presentations for management on a weekly or bi-weekly basis regarding server
• Review APM and other monitoring tools to resolve issues and fixes on a regular basis
• Use of tools like JMeter and server log management for errors and reporting and work with Product team to get that resolved
• Abiding with all the SLAs for TPS speed across our partners
• Adding / Removing servers on a weekly basis to monitor speed etc.
• Work closely with developers in supporting new application features and service launches
• Design, build, and use the various tools that would help in managing to scale and monitoring the cutting edge & open source technology.
• Triage complex technical issues in collaboration with various teams spanning engineering and technical operations teams.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• This job has no direct supervisory responsibilities

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JOB-RELATED SCREENING QUESTIONS/ JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Please provide your # of years of experience (per bullet/colon) and last year used. Elaborate if needed. If no experience, please indicate NA or none. 

• 5+ years of experience in an open-source server administration and/or server engineering role:
• Experience with CentOS or RHEL:
• Experience in supporting 24/7 systems and IT infrastructure operations:
• Operational experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, and MongoDB:
• Experience with configuration management, deployment automation, and monitoring tools such as Redgate, SaltStack, Puppet or Chef, Splunk, Nagios:
• Experience with Maven or hands-on with Gradle build automation and setting up artifactory servers:
• Experience in setup AWS Code Deploy, Redis, Memcache:
• Experience with managing production environments on AWS or another cloud PaaS:

 Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Using, orchestrating, and optimizing cloud components in a heavy Linux environment with extensive Java-related products:
• Using AWS CloudFormation and AWS OpsWorks:
• Using AWS CodeCommit and understand the array of options for enabling a Continuous Integration environment on AWS:
• Ability to write code (Shell Scripting, JSON, Python, Perl, REXX, Ruby) and script (Ansible/Salt, Vagrant):
• Configuration Management experience such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar:
• Solid familiarity with source code control systems such as Git, Perforce, or Bitbucket:
• Operational experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, and MongoDB:
• Comfort with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment:
• Strong grasp of continuous integration tools – Jenkins, TeamCity, Hudson, CruiseControl or GitLab:
• Implement several common Continuous Deployment use cases using AWS technologies, including blue/green deployment and A/B testing:
• Distinguish between the array of application deployment technologies available on AWS (including AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Opsworks, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EC2 Container Service, and Amazon EC2 Container Registry), and decide which technology best fits a given scenario:
• Fine-tune the applications you deliver on AWS for high performance and use AWS tools and technologies to monitor your application and environment for potential issues:
• Ability to present and communicate the architecture in a visual form:
• Ready to solve complex problems and provide simple elegant solutions:
• Strong ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools:
• Highly collaborative, open communication and reaching across functional borders:
• Work with the Infrastructure team to ensure a stable and SECURE environment through the use of best practices and leading-edge technologies:
• Good understanding of Test Automation strategy:
• Able to build tools from scratch when needed:

Education:

• BS, MS in Computer Science, or a combination of certification and equivalent work experience: