Senior Devops Engineer - Remote

Spokeo is a people search engine and identity platform that enlightens and empowers our customers. With nearly 15 billion records and 18 million monthly visitors, we reconnect friends, reunite families, prevent fraud, and more.

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineerwho understands and embraces the DevOps philosophy, can work closely with Scrum teams in an Agile workflow, and is comfortable with cloud-based infrastructure. You should talk to us if you're excited about building big data architectures and creating a PaaS.

What You'll Do - This includes an estimate of where time will be spent. This is subject to change:

• 17% - Contribute cross-functionally with Scrum teams to develop deployment strategies for new and existing services

• 17% - Evaluate and implement technologies that improve efficiency, robustness, performance, and security at scale

• 17% - Develop creative solutions that automate system functions, reducing the manual and unplanned effort

• 17% - Analyze, design, implement, and validate strategies for streamlined CI/CD workflows

• 16% - Design and implement automated dynamic environments to support the needs of delivery teams

• 16% - Apply principles of best practice, self-organization, autonomy, and continuous improvement to self and team

Requirements:

• Must have experience designing, building, and managing solutions built on cloud-based infrastructures; AWS preferred

• Have worked at least one year on teams practicing agile methodology, using Scrum and/or Kanban

• Have excellent customer service and communication skills (verbal and written) to effectively collaborate with a diverse team of people across Business and Engineering Teams

• Be able to demonstrate Systems Administration fundamentals, including mastery of one or more Linux distributions, virtualization, storage, networking, SQL / NoSQL databases, scripting, and ability to troubleshoot high-usage, high-throughput systems.

• Have written quality code to solve complex automation problems in at least one of these languages: Bash, Python, Ruby, Perl, or Go

• Have hands-on development experience utilizing at least one Configuration Management system: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, etc.

• Have architected or developed a programmable infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation

• Understand SDLC and CI/CD models, with the ability to architect the workflow using tools like Git, Jenkins, Spinnaker, etc.

• Be able to gather and interpret metrics from monitoring tools like New Relic, CloudWatch, Elastic Stack, and Ganglia to make informed troubleshooting and performance-tuning decisions.

• Have experience supporting big data, ETL, and analytics platforms, such as Redshift, EMR / Hadoop, Apache Spark, DynamoDB, Apache Airflow, Hitachi Vantara / Pentaho, Tableau, etc.

• Be highly self-motivated and ready to learn new concepts and technologies

• Candidates with a B. S. degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field preferred

• Hands-on experience designing and delivering containerized microservice architectures, EKS preferred

Spokeo offers a bonus program, equity plans, and 401K matching for qualified roles. Twice a year, we do discretionary, merit-based salary increases. Additional benefits include 100% medical/dental/vision coverage and unlimited PTO for all employees.

Spokeo extends written offers to candidates who successfully complete their selection process. Spokeo’s offers include a base salary, participation in a company bonus program, stock options, and comprehensive benefits. A final offer will depend on several factors, including, but not limited to, marketplace competition, job leveling, the candidate’s experience, skills, etc.

Privacy Notice for Candidates: https://www.spokeo.com/recruiting-policy

Spokeo is an equal-opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status. Spokeo fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best products, and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.

Recruiters or staffing agencies: Spokeo is not obligated to compensate any external recruiter or search firm who presents a candidate or their resume or profile to a Spokeo employee without 1) a current, fully executed agreement on file, and 2) being assigned to the open position (as a search) via our applicant tracking solution.

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