Senior Cloud Engineer
BlackLine•Pleasanton, CA
•Hybrid
About The Position
The Cloud Engineer is at the core of preparing for the continued exponential growth of Blackline’s SaaS product and other programs in the Technical Operations group that powers all of Blackline.
Requirements
- 5+ years’ direct experience building or operating cloud native applications using Kubernetes and Docker
- Proficiency with shell scripting and related tools
- Proficiency with Linux SysOps or Windows SysOps tasks
- Experience using Docker in production
- Demonstrated experience developing or operating production web applications and basic understanding of HTTP(S), HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and XML
- Intermediate knowledge of at least one of the following languages: C#, Visual Basic, PowerShell, Linux, ASP.NET, Ruby, Go or Java preferably in an agile SaaS environment
- Exposure to Kubernetes in a bare metal/non-public cloud provider environment
- Experience with open source platforms and technologies
- Experience with software development processes and methodologies
- Experience building cloud native/cloud first applications in a cloud environment such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure
- Track record of developing and implementing robust, distributed online solutions
- Can write clean, readable code
- Familiarity with networking, comp sci stuff, and distributed systems
- Eager to learn and soak in new information
- Strong ownership, pride of work, and ability to take things across the finish line. Someone can see around corners and who finishes well
- Someone energized by a fast-paced, iterative approach
- Expertise in using and managing cloud platforms and cloud native tools
- Strong written and oral communication skills
Responsibilities
- Manage AWS, GCP and/or Azure cloud environments
- Install, configure, and upgrade SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB
- Develop and implement backup and recovery strategies for databases
- Manage the full lifecycle of DevOps tools, Jenkins, Artifactory, Consul and other tools as required including upgrades, patches and scalability enhancements
- Build and manage cloud-based Kubernetes clusters
- Configure, deploy, and scale open source software including: Ubuntu Linux, Docker, rkt, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Fluentd, Flannel, Elasticsearch
- Contribute code back to open source projects to fix bugs and add features needed by our team
- Write new components from scratch when there is no suitable open source project
- Build sensors to monitor platform health and performance
- Interact with customers to promote best practices and influence architecture to be cloud-native
- Serve as technical lead for small projects and support medium to large projects
- Troubleshoot and fix the system when it breaks
- Share the responsibility of being on-call
Benefits
- short-term and long-term incentive programs
- robust offering of benefit and wellness plans
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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