Lead DevOps Engineer

Roberts Recruiting • Boston, MA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to spearhead the management and scaling of our increasingly growing AWS infrastructure. You'll work hand-in-hand with the rest of the engineering and ops teams and you will be the one leading the way to automating everything from our continuous integration and deployment builds to EC2, machine procurement, clustering, monitoring, tuning and security. If you like the idea of being at the heart of scaling a new generation search engine company then drop us a line.

Requirements

• Configuring, maintaining, and securing UNIX/Linux systems.
• AWS or similar IaaS cloud services.
• Scripting (shell, python, ruby) skills for monitoring and automation.
• Infrastructure automation (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Juju, etc) and virtualization (Docker, Vagrant, VMWare, etc).
• Continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, Hudson, etc.
• Monitoring and alerting tools such as Munin, New Relic, Monitis, Ganglia, etc.
• Scaling distributed data systems.
• Optimizing applications, both stand-alone and in distributed systems to maximize performance.
• Maintaining an infrastructure while adding new features to it.
• Clear articulation to your team of your design choices.

Nice To Haves

• Startup environment experience.
• Strong interest in scaling distributed data systems such as Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Hadoop, Cassandra or others.
• Leverage many languages such as Java, Scala, Ruby, JavaScript or Python and frameworks such as Akka or Node.js.
• Leverage OSS software but also contribute back to it.
• Like using technology to empower people.

Responsibilities

• Manage and scale AWS infrastructure.
• Automate continuous integration and deployment builds.
• Automate EC2, machine procurement, clustering, monitoring, tuning, and security.
• Scale distributed data systems.
• Optimize applications to maximize performance.
• Maintain infrastructure while adding new features.
• Clearly articulate design choices to the team.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed