Senior DevOps Engineer - StepStone Group - Remote

The Remote Job Journal; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in private markets seeks a skilled DevOps Engineer to enhance customer experience and optimize the development team's deployment processes. The role involves managing AWS infrastructure, ensuring platform security, and facilitating software application updates. Ideal candidates possess strong skills in Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, and automation tools, with a salary range of $160,000 to $175,000 based on experience.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years' experience deploying SaaS applications.
• Experience with Kubernetes and AWS is required.
• Strong background in Linux Administration.

Responsibilities

• Deploy updates and manage server resources for applications.
• Maintain platform security and perform upgrades.
• Work with IT on best practices for security auditing.

Skills

Linux Administration

AWS Services

Containerization (Docker)

Automation/Configuration Management

Kubernetes

Scripting (Python, Bash)

Database Management (MySQL)

Job description

We are global private markets specialistsdelivering tailored investment solutions,advisory services, and impactful, data driveninsights to the world’s investors.Leveraging the power of our platform andour peerless intelligence across sectors,strategies, and geographies, we helpidentify the advantages and the answersour clients need to succeed.

Position Overview

The DevOps Engineer will help us build and maintain functional systems that improve both customer experience and help the development team build/test/deploy our applications. DevOps Engineer responsibilities include: deploying updates to our infrastructure, identify issues and provide improvements to our deployment process. You will be working closely with the development team to collect and implement updates to our platform that are required by our applications. You will also work with the IT team to implement any security requirements and provide regular audit records of our security best practices. A successful candidate loves hacking on python or bash scripts, is comfortable building Docker clusters and knows AWS services like the back of their hand.

Essential Job Functions:

• Work with the Engineering team to setup, manage, and scale server resources to deploy our applications
• Ensure platform is up-to-date and perform regular maintenance (security patching, server upgrades), access to resources is limited to the proper groups
• Work with IT group to set best practices for security auditing of network resources
• Assist the Engineering team in getting network resources setup for applications, optimize the deployment process, and perform upgrades to infrastructure in order to improve user experience

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

• 3-5 years' experience working with a software development team deploying SaaS applications
• 3–5 years of Kubernetes experience, including building Helm charts; knowledge of Istio is a plus
• Strong background in Linux Administration (Ubuntu preferred)
• Experience with Automation/Configuration management (Puppet, Chef, Terraform)
• Experience working with AWS services to setup and manage a SaaS platform is required
• Knowledge of managing database environments (MySQL preferred) setting up database replication, performance tuning, etc
• Working knowledge coding (PHP, Python, NodeJs)
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
• Previous experience working in a services oriented architecture using Docker is a plus

Salary Range - $160,000 - $175,000

The salary range is an estimate of pay for this position. Actual pay may vary depending on job-related factors that can include location, education, skill, and experience. The salary range does not include any benefits or other forms of possible compensation that may be available to employees.

At StepStone, we believe that our people are our most important asset and crucial to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that strives to create an environment that empowers our employees and allows them to be heard, regardless of title or tenure. Our organizational community features multiple Employment Resource Groups as well as mentorship programs to enhance the employee experience for all.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, StepStone does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.

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