DevOps Engineer

Cygnus Professionals
Sunnyvale, CA
29 Nov 2024

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Job DescriptionResponsibilities:
  • Development and design of systems, with a focus on automation and maintainability at alarge scale
  • Software and hardware testing and deployment to staging and production environments
  • Platform integration: Programmatic infrastructure management
  • Develop software infrastructure and build tools useful in development lifecycle
  • Comfortable with collaboration, open communication and reaching across dev, qa, monitoring and other cross functional teams
  • Maintain and monitor production systems for capacity issues, performance and conduct proactive health-checks
  • Incident trouble shooting, with quick remediation for issues
Qualifications:
  • 4+ years as Systems Administrator/Engineer, DevOps Engineer or platform developer in a mid to large Linux environment
  • Strong IT/Ops background with focus on Process and MOPs
  • Strong Linux fundamentals, with experience in Centos, RPM
  • Solid understanding of containers, familiar with Kubernetes or other orchestration systems
  • Familiarity with deployment and management systems such as Ansible, Puppet, Salt, Chef, Packer, Terraform, etc.
  • Strong grasp and practical experience with automation and virtualization of at least one cloud platform (e.g. VMWare, OpenStack, AWS)
  • Expertise in building/maintaining/sustaining monitoring systems like: nagios, op5, etc.
  • Strong with at least one scripting and/or high level language: Python, Node.js, Java, Shell, Perl, Golang
  • Production experience working with load balancers and web stack based application environments
  • Familiarity with cloud technologies like Apache Kafka, Spark, Zookeeper, etc.
  • Solid grasp of operating and managing NoSQL DB such as Cassandra, Hadoop
  • Familiarity with REST/SOAP/JSON APIs
  • Systems and application monitoring and performance tuning knowledge a plus
  • Familiarity with messaging systems like ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, and Kafka is a plus
  • Experience with distributed file system (GlusterFS/Ceph) a plus
  • Experience in AWS VPC, Networking and Security
  • Self-motivated, with excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Experience in building, maintaining, supporting Cloud based applications with 24x7 monitoring of logs and alerts.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field. Master’s preferred.