Reflexive Concepts is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer III to join our team!
Responsibilities:
• Must be fluent with Git
• Strong knowledge of Linux and Linux environments (RHEL 6/7/8, RHCSA/RHCE, CentOS)
• Experience with Windows system administration, system monitoring, instrumentation, resiliency and performance
• 10+ years working in an Agile dev environment (excludes education experience such as Bachelor's or Master's degree in relevant field)
• Experience integrating Jenkins/Bamboo, Docker, and Kubernetes for automated deployment preferred
• Experience with caching technologies (Memcache, ActiveMQ, Redis, APC, etc.)
• Experience with MySQL (Clusters, Replication, and Tuning) and Elasticsearch (Kibana a plus). Knowledge of security practices, networking protocols, firewalls, PCI compliance etc.
• 10+ years of system architecture required with a demonstrated ability to read the code and understand the coding logic to assist in troubleshooting
• 10+ years' experience managing/monitoring AWS cloud and virtualized servers for optimal performance while working in a Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment
• Familiarity with software development life cycle models, Agile, and DevOps programming methodologies
• Fluent skills in object-oriented programming and experience in at least one programming language such as Ruby, C, C++, Go, Python, or Java
• Experience acquiring in-depth understanding of large complex software systems to isolate defects, reproduce defects, assess risk, and understand varied customer deployments
• Ability to successfully work with customers, developers, testing, project management, and support staff
• Excellent problem solving, analytical skills and technical troubleshooting skills
• Clarity and precision in verbal and written communications
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree or higher is required in either Engineering (i.e. Computer, Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, etc.) or Computer Science with a minimum of ten (10) years of related experience (excludes education experience such as Bachelor's or Master's degree in relevant field)
Required:
• Support the development life cycle of platform architectural design, deployment and debugging.
• Building a release pipeline to enable fast, but safe delivery of critical business software to Production.
• Develop and maintain sound version control best practices-based CM systems (Git), including branching and merging strategies.
• Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and actively participate in all Agile ceremonies, including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectives.
• Ability to automate release deployments across development, test, staging, Quality Assurance and production stacks using a combination of scripting languages and other automation toolkits.
• Set up new sites and applications via configuration management such as Puppet and Ansible.
• Maintain/upgrade/patch tracking and documentation software (Confluence/Jira).
• Create, assist, and implement design and maintenance of web service infrastructure and deployments.
• Analyze service stack and make recommendations for further improvements.
• Identify processes and capabilities that can be streamlined and automated.
• Communicate effectively to help bridge stakeholder and development requirements.
• Assist with support and operations where necessary.
• Maintain confidentiality with regard to information being processed, stored, or accessed.
• Leverage programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl, and Java.
• Proficient with DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering methodologies.
• Proficient automating network infrastructure configuration using Software Defined Networking.
• Ability to have a holistic view of service development and deployment architecture.
• Understanding of SLA requirements and role of high availability architectures, performance optimization, and monitoring techniques.
• Act in the capacity to support deployment and operations when necessary.
• Set up and configure a continuous integration environment by leveraging Configuration Management, containerization, serverless technologies, and Kubernetes.
• Architect and develop best practices for software build tools (Gradle, Maven, Ant, Shell) and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Bamboo), and infrastructure automation (Amazon Web Services, VMware, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.).
• Experience working cross-functionally across multiple teams.
Desired Skills:
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• AWS
• Linux