DevOps Engineer

Anomali Inc.; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Anomali Inc. is seeking a key member of its IT Infrastructure Team to handle design, implementation, and support of large-scale infrastructure on public cloud technologies. This role demands strong UNIX/Linux skills and involvement in ensuring a 99.99% uptime for applications.

The ideal candidate should have experience with AWS services, thrive in dynamic environments, and be ready to provide mentorship to peers.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years as UNIX/Linux system administrator supporting enterprise computing platforms.
• Proven experience supporting multi-tenant applications on public cloud.
• 2+ years experience running production systems on AWS.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement large scale infrastructure on public cloud technologies.
• Collaborate with Engineering and IT teams for infrastructure design.
• Monitor and administer applications to improve reliability.

Skills

UNIX/Linux system administration

Scripting with Python

Scripting with Bash

AWS (EC2, RDS, S3)

Ansible

Networking and security concepts

Monitoring technologies (Nagios, New Relic)

Cloud deployment

Education

BS or comparable work experience

Tools

AWS

Ansible

Docker

Splunk

CoreOS

Job description

Anomali delivers earlier detection and identification of adversaries in your organizations network by making it possible to correlate tens of millions of threat indicators against your real time network activity logs and up to a year or more of forensic log data. Anomali’s approach enables detection at every point along the kill chain, making it possible to mitigate threats before material damage to your organization has occurred.

Job Description

As a key member of our IT Infrastructure Team, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, support, documentation and troubleshooting of large scale infrastructure on public cloud technologies. In this mission critical role you duties will include the following:

• Participate in the design and implementation phases for new and existing products, with a focus on providing the technical knowledge of infrastructure requirements.
• Help Engineering and Research teams implement new technologies in development for future production deployment.
• Working with Engineering and IT teams to analyze and design infrastructure with 99.99% up-time with server virtualization, clustering, replicating databases, disaster recovery, and geographic redundancy.
• Actively monitor and administer the applications and hosting environment to increase efficiency, improve reliability, and minimize downtimes.
• Triage and provide technical solutions to environment related issues encountered by new and existing applications in the environment.
• Support Engineering team with change requests, uptime, performance, build and deployment related issues, and access.
• Measurement, optimization, and tuning of system performance and ensuring that systems will run reliably and are highly available in a 24/7 production environment.
• Manage and control the continuous release promotion cycle (through automation) including the following environments: development, QA, Performance, Pre-prod and production.
• Collaborate with Engineering team on the development of deployment scripts on a lifecycle automation platform for the orchestration, integration and deployment of new software releases.
• Provide technical guidance, knowledge transfer and mentorship to peers as required.
• Able to work independently with flexible hours when and as needed.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years as UNIX/Linux system administrator supporting enterprise computing platforms.
• Proven experience supporting multi-tenant applications on public cloud.
• Possess a solid understanding of operating systems, networking and security concepts.
• 2+ years experience running production systems on Amazon Web Services. This includes but it is not limited to EC2, ELB, VPC, RDS, S3, CloudFront, and CloudTrail. Some experience with Azure, SoftLayer is a plus.
• Experience with revision control source, continuous integration and deployment tools.
• Experience with automation/configuration management using Ansible (preferred), Puppet, or Chef.
• Very strong scripting skills with Python and Bash.
• Understanding of open source software (e.g.: CoreOS, Docker, Postgres, HA Proxy).
• Experience with monitoring/reporting technologies (e.g.: Nagios, PagerDuty, New Relic).
• Experience administering Splunk environments (e.g.: onboarding new data feeds, creating dashboards/reports, advanced search, etc.).
• BS or comparable work experience; AWS certifications is a plus.
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment with rapidly changing priorities

Additional Information

Anomali is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.