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DevOps Engineer at ideaVat LLC in Boston, MA
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Job Description
Company Description
Ideavat provides I.T staffing solutions, enabling companies & jobseekers engage successfully.
With over 20 man years of contingent staffing experience, the management & execution team is committed to provide customized staffing solutions to employers/hiring managers, helping them identify key talents. Emergent technology staffing (UI/UX developers & designers, Mobility & Cloud Engineers, Big Data/Hadoop developers & architects…& more) remains our primary focus!
Job Description
As a senior software engineer you will work as an integral part of our Cloud Platform team that will enable exciting new features for our wireless audio products. The ideal candidate has extensive DevOps knowledge and experience, and has previously managed modern cloud, big data and Internet of Things systems in a fast-paced, agile environment.
Key Responsibilities:
The specific focus for the DevOps Engineer is on automation and optimization of the development and platform management lifecycle, including:
Establish continuous integration (CI) pipeline to fully automate deployment of the highly available, mission critical cloud platform that supports connected products
Create scripts and templates to build cloud-based development systems for our software engineers
Build tools for deployment, monitoring and operations. Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our development, test and production environments.
Work with platform architects on software and system optimizations, helping to identify and remove potential performance bottlenecks
Stay up-to-date on relevant technologies, plug into user groups, understand trends and opportunities to ensure we are using the best possible techniques and tools
Understand, implement, and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation
Design, manage, and maintain tools to automate operational processes
Some of the specific challenges you will tackle:
Create self-service capabilities for developers to write and manage microservices
Automate provisioning and monitoring of a global deployment of microservices
Configure and administer our API developer portal and API gateway
Configure and administer authentication with various identity providers
Implement security policies according to industry best practices
Handle variable load patterns and rapidly increasing demand through elastic system design
Qualifications
Strong background in Linux/Unix administration and scripting
Extensive experience with a public cloud provider, ideally Amazon Web Services
Experience with automation and configuration management using either Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or an equivalent
Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services
Amazon Web Services certification highly desired
Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL data stores
Software process automation with popular scripting languages (PHP, Python, Node.js, and/or Ruby)
Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available mission critical service
Experience developing code in at least one high-level programming language
Experience in automation and testing via scripting/programming
Understanding of Agile and other development processes and methodologies
Source, build/release, and configuration management in a continuous integration & delivery environment
Application performance analysis and monitoring
Knowledge of best-practice security and networking techniques for an Internet-facing system
Highly desired, but not required, skills include:
Research & investigative skills
Technology vendor management
Experience
5 or more years working in DevOps, software development, or network management
Two or more years’ experience provisioning, operating, and managing AWS environments
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent
Qualifications
**DevOps,****AWS,**SQL,NoSQL,Python,Node.js
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.