Systems Engineer 3

Avid Technology Professionals; Maryland; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Avid Technology Professionals is seeking a Systems Engineer to design, implement, and maintain DevOps resources for multiple product teams, enabling automated build and deployment processes.

You will develop IaC, configure AWS infrastructure with Terraform, manage GitLab CI/CD pipelines and Argo CD, and tune Kubernetes clusters (EKS) with observability tools like Grafana and Elasticsearch to ensure reliability.

Qualifications

• Develop and manage Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes.
• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure (EC2, Lambdas, EKS, RDS, S3, EFS, EBS) using Terraform.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Develop 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.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Automation

Python

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

GitLab

AWS

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Argo CD

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Grafana/Prometheus

Elasticsearch

Lambdas

EKS

EC2

S3

RDS

EFS

EBS

Job description

Skills

• 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 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.