Sr. Devops Engineer (Remote)

Rightsline is an IP Commerce deal, rights, strategy and finance platform. Serving global companies spanning several industries including media and entertainment, gaming, publishing, consumer products, life sciences and high tech, Rightsline's cloud-based enterprise SaaS platform provides IP owners of all sizes with tools for managing and monetizing the full intellectual property lifecycle giving finance, legal, operations and strategy teams 360-degree visibility.

Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Rightsline has hubs in New York, Boston, Toronto and London. Rightsline's customers include Amazon, BBC Studios, Google, Dell, Merck, EA and Hallmark, among other leading global IP holders.

Welcome to a world of less data entry and more data integrity. Welcome to the Rightsline reality!

The Position

Rightsline is currently looking for an enthusiastic Senior DevOps Engineer. This role will report to the DevOps Manager and work with the VP of Engineering (DB & Infrastructure), and the CTO to manage and monitor Rightline’s AWS infrastructure and related internal tools, develop CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code automation, and lead the creation and implementation of new security processes, procedures, and tools.

You will be working in a collaborative environment with a team who shares your passion for building impactful solutions with cutting edge technology.

What you will do:

• Lead the ongoing setup and maintenance of the AWS infrastructure and systems configuration running a new customer-facing SaaS product.
• Work with internal engineers and product teams to build out infrastructure and systems for new SaaS customers.
• Design and develop build, deployment, configuration, monitoring, and build tools to improve systems availability, scalability, and operational efficiency
• Build out EC2 instances with a focus on complete system automation
• Implement infrastructure as code (Terraform) and system provisioning (Puppet, Ansible, Powershell)
• Monitor metrics and develop ways to improve performance, scalability, and cost
• Help manage CI/CD, redundancy, failover, and DR strategies
• Help define, follow, and enforce internal best practices and procedures

What you will bring to the role:

• 5+ years of experience maintaining and building customer-facing workloads running across multiple AWS accounts.
• 3+ years of experience creating and maintaining build/deploy pipelines
• 5+ years Windows administration experience
• 5+ years of software development or scripting experience
• A strong desire and ability to reduce operational toil through the use of automation
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to effectively work in an autonomous manner and deliver consistent results with little oversight

Tech stack must haves:

• Expertise with maintaining AWS infrastructure with IaC (ex. Terraform, CloudFormation, SAM, CDK) and systems configuration automation (ex. ansible, puppet, scripts)
• Experience enforcing least-privilege access in IAM and Service Control Policies
• Experience maintaining Active Directory domains
• Programming or scripting language(s) (python, node, C#, golang, bash, etc)
• Experience managing operating system patches on a regular cadence
• Version control systems experience (ex. git)
• Experience maintaining custom EC2 AMIs for use in auto-scaling groups
• Familiarity with AWS monitoring via CloudWatch (logs, insights, dashboards, alarms, custom metrics)
• Experience managing multiple AWS accounts
• Docker containers (building and running)
• Advanced knowledge and experience with computer networking (routing, load balancing, VPCs, subnets, peering, VPNs)
• Windows server administration experience
  
  

Nice-to-haves:

• Advanced Windows Server administration (RADIUS, RAS, license servers, etc)
• Serverless Framework or other framework for managing AWS Lambdas
• Experience with security tools such as SIEM, IDS, WAFs, and network ACLs
• Experience with AWS well-architected framework
• Basic Linux server administration experience
• Basic Microsoft SQL server administration
• CI/CD experience with AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy
• SES administration
• S3 object lifecycles and bucket policy management
• Container orchestration on AWS
• AWS Systems Manager expertise (parameter store, automation documents, patch management)
• Experiences with other AWS Services: FSx, SSO, Workspaces, Backup, Route 53, ACM, RDS, AWS Config, S3, SNS, SQS, EventBridge
• Setting up and maintaining 3rd party appliances in AWS
• Expertise with security tools such as SIEM software, intrusion detection systems, (web app) firewalls, access control lists, vulnerability scanners, and IAM.

Compensation

• Competitive Base Salary and Health & Dental Benefits

The Rightsline Advantage

At Rightsline we encourage inclusiveness, purpose and innovation. We offer flexible work hours, birthdays off, alternating 4-day work weeks, one-time home office allowance, unlimited vacation time, team socials, happy hours and career progression in a high growth environment. 

• Rightsline was the very 1st cloud-based rights and contract management platform, so we’re used to innovation. We’re also used to incredible growth if you’re into that sort of thing.
• You will become part of an amazing culture with a supportive executive team, smart colleagues who truly care, and a global team that’s been rocking this virtual collaboration thing since before anyone had ever heard the term COVID19.
• You’ll often hear “Yes, let’s try that!” and then have the chance to execute your ideas.
• You will grow more here than you would at any other company. That’s a promise.
• A People First Company - 4.8 rating on Glassdoor

Our 5 Stage Recruitment Process

1. Review - We review applications and screen based on a variety of criteria
2. Phone - Candidates will be screened via a quick 20-minute Zoom meeting to discuss the role opportunity
3. Task - Finalists will complete a small task to show off their skills.
4. Interview - We will conduct 2-3 stages of interviews via Zoom
5. Offer - We will make an offer to the candidate that we feel would excel most in the role. 

**Please be advised that only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted, and references will be requested for those candidates selected in the final interview stage.**

Equal Employment Opportunity

Rightsline is an equal opportunity workplace. All candidates will be afforded equal opportunity through the recruiting process. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity and/or expression. We are dedicated to growing a diverse team of highly talented individuals and creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.

If you are contacted for an interview and require accommodation during the interviewing process, please let us know.

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