DevOps Engineer

Cornerstone Home Lending•Houston, TX

About The Position

Cornerstone is a fantastic company, made up of fantastic team members. We are reimaging ourselves as a technology company that will provide the best home lending experience through engaging lending teams and innovative solutions, designed to ensure repeat customers, and maximize referrals. We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer who loves a challenge, thinks creatively, and demonstrates high levels of energy and commitment. This role will be part of a team that builds the automation around provisioning, monitoring, and updating cloud infrastructure. The role will also be responsible for finding opportunities to improve our architecture using cloud and cloud-native technologies. Security, data privacy, and system resiliency are integral to the design and architecture. A candidate should have an appreciation for running platforms in the cloud with respect to security, cost, performance, and complexity. This role will perform various functions including:

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
At least 5 years of experience with deploying to and operating Azure cloud environments and configuration management.
Experience automating deployment of IaaS components including storage, network, and compute.
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform/Terragrunt preferred)
Understanding of cloud paradigms (tenancy, resource pools, elasticity, SOA, etc.), components (networking, hypervisors, storage, monitoring/logging/alarming, security, etc.), and service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, serverless, etc.)
Experience with IAM management of cloud resources.
At least 2 years’ experience managing Kubernetes/Docker environment.
Experience with monitoring tools (Azure Log Analytics, Datadog)
Knowledge of systems operations, networking, and application servers
Experience performing design/build/support of multiple operating systems (Linux, Windows)
At least 2 years of experience using source code management using Git.
At least 2 years of experience with scripting languages (Python, Bash, or similar)
Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams and proficient in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to develop application backup and disaster recovery strategy and establish test plan.
Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to ensure smooth and reliable delivery of software and systems to fulfill business objectives, support business processes, and ensure business continuity.
Work with team members, decision makers, and stakeholders to define business requirements and systems goals that can be achieved with release management enhancements.
Work independently, or within the construct of a platform product team, to understand the technical requirements of our product teams to deliver creative solutions which meet or exceed those needs.
Maintain awareness of emerging cloud-based industry trends and technologies which may create value.
Produce and maintain documentation to support solutions that you have developed/deployed to aid in the support of the solution.
Monitor cloud infrastructure to identify areas of improvement, reliability, cost savings, etc.
Maintain and implement monitoring and alerting to help manage and ensure Service Level Agreements
Configuration management, review, and governance of Cloud resources, identity, and access management (IAM), etc.
Enhance and maintain Continuous Delivery and Continuous Delivery pipelines (CI/CD)
Automating our operational processes as needed, with accuracy and in compliance with our Cyber Security standards
Performing software upgrades, kernel patching, and errata patches.
Working with our automation stack - Cloud Formation, Terraform, etc.
Actively troubleshooting any issues that arise during testing and production, catching and solving issues before launch.