Systems Engineer 3

Avid Technology Professionals, LLC; Maryland; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Avid Technology Professionals, LLC is seeking a System Engineer to design, implement, and maintain DevOps resources across multiple product teams. You will enable teams to automate build and deployment and take initiative to learn new skills.

The role emphasizes Infrastructure as Code, AWS infrastructure (EC2/Lambdas/EKS/RDS/S3/etc.) using Terraform, and Kubernetes with EKS. Strong collaboration with developers and operations is essential.

Qualifications

• Develop and manage IaC and automation scripts for tasks and provisioning.
• Experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (EC2, Lambda, EKS, RDS, S3, EFS, EBS) using Terraform and autoscaling.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize performance and reliability.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and maintain system uptime.

Responsibilities

• Developing Infrastructure As Code and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools.
• Install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing Kubernetes and cloud-native logging/metrics (Elasticsearch, Grafana/Prometheus).
• Manage GitLab CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deploy using GitLab runners and Argo CD.
• Manage commercial cloud platforms (AWS).
• Communicate and collaborate effectively within a team and with stakeholders.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud administration

Team collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

GitLab

Kubernetes

AWS

Elasticsearch

Grafana/Prometheus

Job description

Part of a team that designs, implements, and maintains DevOps resources for multiple product teams and enables teams to automate build and deployment where possible. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who has a deep understanding of the needed technologies and the initiative to learn new skills.

The System Engineer will be responsible for:

• Developing Infrastructure As Code and scripting to automate tasks, provision managed services, and build tools. Popular programming languages for DevOps engineers include Terraform, Ansible, and Python.
• Install, configure, and provide performance tuning utilizing: Kubernetes and cloud native logging and metrics collection tools (i.e. Elasticsearch, Grafana/Prometheus).
• Managing Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to automate building, testing, and deploying code utilizing GitLab runners and Argo CD.
• Managing commercial cloud computing platforms (AWS).
• Communication and collaboration: DevOps is a team-oriented discipline. Engineers need to be able to communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members, as well as with stakeholders.

Desired skills:

• Develop and manage Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes
• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure including but not limited to EC2, Lambdas, EKS, RDS, S3, EFS, EBS, using Terraform and auto scaling.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and ensure system uptime.
• Kubernetes experience with a focus on EKS.
• Familiarity with FOSS tools such as Elasticsearch, Prometheus/Grafana, PGAdmin, etc. that can be installed in Kubernetes via helm chart.
• Familiarity with various Kubernetes storage class types such as GP3. Longhorn, EBS, etc.