Sr. DevOps Engineer

iHerb; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead a dynamic team. This role involves providing technical leadership, coaching, and mentorship while shaping the DevOps roadmap. You will collaborate with other developers to implement innovative solutions and ensure optimal system performance. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and possess a strong background in DevOps practices, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on the organization's success and drive technological advancements.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in DevOps with strong leadership skills.
• Expertise in tools like CDN, DNS, and Configuration Management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps Engineers to ensure best practices.
• Collaborate with Engineering Operations for security and infrastructure.

Skills

Team Leadership

CDN (Akamai, Cloudflare)

DNS (Dyn, Cloudflare)

Cloud Computing

Configuration Management (Ansible)

Linux

Web Traffic Analysis

Communication Skills

Scripting Languages (Shell, PHP)

System Architecture

Agile Methodologies

E-Commerce Knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Octopus

SOLR

Redis

Docker

Job description

United States of America - Remote / Home Office

Job Summary

The Senior DevOps engineer will provide technical leadership to our team of DevOps Engineers. This role will provide coaching, mentorship, and training as well as shaping the technical road map and standards for iHerb’s DevOps team. This role will work closely with other Lead Developers in the organization to ensure proper support and alignment is in place to push new technologies to both front and back end services.

Job Expectations:

1. Work closely with the Engineering Operations teams to ensure proper security, infrastructure, and standards are in place.
2. Create new concepts and designs by collaborating with the DevOps Engineers and other Lead Developers.
3. Coach and mentor the team on DevOps best practices (design, troubleshooting, work breakdown, work estimation, automated testing, etc.).
4. Work closely with the other teams (Developers and DBA team) to optimize system architecture and project efficiency.
5. Partner with the Project Manager to plan work and prioritization.
6. Guide DevOps team efforts towards successful project delivery.
7. Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.
8. Provide regular updates on projects and team performance to Director of IT Operations.
9. Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.
10. Work closely with our NOC team to transfer knowledge on new tools or new services.
11. Analyze and resolve technical and application problems.
12. Assess opportunities for process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties.
13. Research and evaluate a variety of software products.
14. On call duties as needed.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Required:

1. Experience leading a team of System or DevOps Engineers.
2. Full understanding and expert knowledge in tools and technologies such as CDN (Akamai, Cloudflare), DNS GTM, DNS (Dyn, Cloudflare), Cloud base computing (WMS), Code Deployment (Octopus), Configuration Management (Ansible), etc.
3. Experience with Linux.
4. Expert in analyzing web traffic and identifying problems and unusual trends.
5. Skilled in organizing resources and establishing priorities.
6. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
7. Ability to learn and support new systems and applications.
8. Expert knowledge and experience to work with high traffic websites, update, monitoring, and maintenance strategies.
9. Strong knowledge of HTTP protocol and IP concepts.
10. Working knowledge of applications servers like SOLR, Redis, Docker.
11. Experience writing shell scripts, PHP, and other scripting languages.
12. Strong knowledge of system architecture, best practices, and design patterns.
13. Strong knowledge of design and implementation of distributed systems (SOA, Micro Services, Docker, …).
14. Expert knowledge of and ability to communicate system architecture and design principles.
15. Proven track record being technical lead of DevOps projects from inception to successful release.
16. Knowledge of source control systems.
17. Accustomed with agile methodologies.
18. Understanding of debugging, performance profiling, and optimization.
19. Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes.
20. Familiar with E-Commerce.

Experience Requirements:

Generally, requires a minimum of five (5) to ten (10) years of experience with DevOps.

Education Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or related field preferred and/or years of experience.

iHerb is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. iHerb provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment.