AWS DevOps Engineer - $80k per year

Descripción de empleo<br />AWS DevOps Engineer - $80k per year<br /><br />Are you a talented DevOps engineer with an appetite for big challenges? If you have a passion for the latest cloud technology and strategies and you thrive in challenging environments with complex distributed systems and diverse teams you can be a part of MessageOne’s success. The ideal candidate for this role will have experience in software development, systems administration, deployment automation, quality assurance, and monitoring and maintaining large scale, mission critical services with various underlying dependencies. You will engage closely with architects, engineering teams, QA, and operations teams to deliver highly available and scalable services.<br /><br />Crossover is partnering with MessageOne to hire the best and brightest AWS DevOps Engineers. MessageOne. MessageOne is the leading provider of managed services for email management, archiving and business continuity. For enterprise email and wireless messaging systems, the company’s Email Management Services (EMS™) provides comprehensive email archiving, storage management and e-Discovery with the total continuity and recovery only available from a managed service. In addition, MessageOne’s AlertFind™ provides guaranteed emergency notification and escalation to help companies protect their employees during any crisis or disaster. Millions of users around the world depend on MessageOne for its award-winning managed services.<br /><br />Job Description<br /><br />This is a hands-on technical position. The ideal candidate has prior experience managing cloud based n-tier web applications and strives to solve traditional operations problems through automation and [login to view URL] must possess a high standard of excellence, solid written and verbal communication skills, have a strong customer focus, and be capable of technical deep-dives into operating systems, application performance, databases, load balancers, networks, and storage systems. You should be either a software developer with some experience and knowledge as a system administrator, or possibly a system administrator with some experience and knowledge as a programmer.<br /><br />Key Responsibilities: As a MessageOne AWS DevOps Engineer, you will:<br />Build solutions to problems that interrupt availability, performance, and stability in our systems, services, and products at scale.<br />Perform a wide variety of technical and administrative duties in overall systems design, development, and delivery.<br />Work in conjunction with IT, engineering, and business groups to understand functionality, scalability, performance, security, and integration requirements.<br />Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of the application, systems, database architecture, and the general application functionality used to maintain data integrity.<br />Manage the establishment and configuration of SaaS infrastructure in an agile way by storing infrastructure as code and employing automated configuration management tools with a goal to be able to re-provision environments at any point in time.<br />Develop and implement instrumentation for monitoring the health and availability of services including fault detection, alerting, triage, and recovery (automated and manual).<br />Be accountable for proper backup and disaster recovery procedures.<br />Develop, improve, and thoroughly document operational practices and procedures.<br />Drive operational cost reductions through service optimizations and demand based auto scaling.<br /><br />Aptitudes y conocimientos deseados<br />Required Skills and Experience<br />Strong experience building and maintaining production systems on AWS using EC2, RDS, S3, ELB, Cloud Formation, etc. and familiarity interacting with the AWS APIs. You should be equally comfortable in a traditional datacenter setting.<br /><br />Proficient in high level script languages (Python and/or Ruby) as well as script environments like bash<br /><br />Deep experience administering Linux (Centos, RHEL, Ubuntu) systems.<br /><br />Thorough understanding of configuration management concepts. Puppet experience is highly desired, both master based and headless. Bonus points for experience with Chef, Ansible, or Salt.<br /><br />Experience with monitoring, metrics, and visualization tools for network, server, and application status (Zenoss, Sensu, Nagios, Graphite, Collectd, Ganglia, etc.)<br /><br />Experience with hardware and software firewalls, IPS, WAF, and additional security layers (LDAP, SSO, 2Factor)<br /><br />Experience with continuous integration, testing, and deployment.<br /><br />Experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL and MySQL). Bonus points for NoSQL (Cassandra, DynamoDB, Couchbase, Mongo)<br /><br />A desire to automate yourself out of a job. We will always have new challenges and problems to solve.<br /><br />Understanding of ITIL terminology like incident and [login to view URL] that are nice to have<br />Bonus if you are familiar with MS Exchange, Postfix, MTAs, SMS (smtp & native), and voice call/VOIP routing<br /><br />Total Compensation is USD $ 80,000/year<br /><br />We’re also one of the few legitimate companies offering high-paying jobs that are 100% remote, work from home. You never have to fight traffic to the office again and you have the freedom to choose when and where you put in your 40 hours to be most effective each week.<br /><br />From there, to help us find the top 1% of talent, there will be a series of interviews and online skills examinations. We realize these are challenging and can require a decent amount of time - so we thank you in advance for your efforts.<br /><br />Are you up for the challenge?