Devops Engineer

Arka Infotech Inc; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company located in New York is seeking a Software Engineer with at least 5 years of experience in a devops environment. In this role, you will onboard engineering teams and ensure their applications adhere to standards through expert knowledge of provisioning and configuration tools. Experience with cloud services, automation, and open-source technologies is essential. The position involves operational tasks as well as collaboration across teams to enhance software initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5 years experience as a software engineer in a devops environment.
• Comfortable learning and using a wide variety of open source technologies.

Responsibilities

• Onboard application engineering teams to our platform.
• Become an expert on provisioning and configuration management tools.
• Provide reviews of application architecture.
• Provide launch and live event support.
• Execute operational tasks and improve automation.
• Augment staff of other teams and work with Core Engineering.

Skills

Agile software development

Ability to learn new languages

Understanding of continuous deployment environments

Amazon Web Services

Hands-on experience supporting live production applications

Experience with open source technologies

Linux environment

Configuration management

Git

Tools

Puppet

Sensu

Graphite

Logstash

Elasticsearch

Docker

Jenkins

Job description

Preferably, someone with 5 year experience as software engineer working in devops environment.

Encouraging GC/USC to apply

Responsibilities

• You will onboard application engineering teams to our platform, answer questions and gather feedback about the standard operation of our tools.
• You will become an expert on our provisioning and configuration management tools and our monitoring and alerting stacks, and work with teams to ensure their applications are up to our standards in using these tools.
• You will help provide reviews of a team's application architecture, and flag potential issues in terms of scaling and performance.
• You will occasionally provide launch and live event support.
• You will spend some portion of your day executing operational tasks, and improving and automating these tasks.
• You will occasionally augment the staff of other teams to help complete software initiatives, as well as occasionally work with the Core Engineering development team to improve our own tooling.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience with agile software development processes
• Ability to learn new languages
• An understanding of continuous deployment environments and automation tools
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (or similar cloud services platform)
• Hands on experience supporting live production applications
• Comfortable learning and using a wide variety of open source technologies and tools. Examples are Puppet, Sensu, Graphite, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Docker, Jenkins, etc.
• Experience operating in a Linux environment
• Experience with configuration management
• Comfortable using Git in various workflows

Additional Information

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