Senior Dev Ops Engineer

Ecentria•Northbrook, IL

3h•$100,000 - $125,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Ecentria is looking to add a Senior Dev Ops Engineer to our team! This hybrid role requires employees to work onsite in our Northbrook, IL office once per week. The role involves maintaining and developing systems for provisioning and configuring virtual infrastructure, designing and building scalable platforms for on-premise and cloud infrastructure, and creating tools for monitoring, testing, and diagnosis of systems. The engineer will also participate in an on-call rotation, collaborative troubleshooting, and adhere to IT best practices. A key aspect of the role includes contributing to the team's AI initiatives, using AI for troubleshooting and understanding configuration changes, and performing other ad hoc duties as assigned.

Requirements

3+ years of experience in a similar DevOps/infrastructure engineering role
Experience working with a LAMP stack
Experience with object-oriented programming and design patterns
Experience with web platforms and technologies, including HTTP, REST APIs, and JSON
Experience with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS (required) and Azure (a plus), including identifying and troubleshooting related issues
Required Hands-on experience with Terraform/Terragrunt (required) for infrastructure-as-code in cloud environments
Experience with and good understanding of containerization technologies, including Kubernetes (required) and Docker
Experience with and good understanding of virtualization platforms, particularly VMware and/or Proxmox
Advanced understanding of and troubleshooting experience with Linux operating systems (Ubuntu preferred)
Proficiency writing Bash scripts
Programming/scripting experience in Python, PHP, or other scripting languages, including automating software deployments
Good knowledge of MySQL administration and troubleshooting
Experience with most of the following: HAProxy, Apache, Nginx, RabbitMQ, Cassandra, ElasticSearch/Logstash/Kibana
Ability to identify and troubleshoot issues across these systems
Experience configuring web servers, including Apache HTTPD and Nginx
Experience with software load balancers such as HAProxy, Nginx, or similar
Experience with provisioning and configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Salt
Experience with GitHub and the Atlassian stack (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, BitBucket)
Excellent problem-solving skills and strong attention to detail
Ability to prioritize and balance multiple tasks
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Comfortable researching and adopting innovative open-source technologies
Skilled at troubleshooting complex, ambiguous problems
Effective at participating in technical discussions and driving consensus on debates
Strong collaborator in a cross-functional, team-based environment

Nice To Haves

Experience with Azure
Experience with Proxmox

Responsibilities

Maintain and develop system for provisioning and configuring of virtual infrastructure in AWS, VMWare and other similar environments
Design, build and support scalable platforms to efficiently support on-premise and Cloud infrastructure. This includes in-house systems, third party applications (such as JIRA), and service components (web servers, data bases).
Design and build tools for monitoring, testing, and diagnosis of systems
Participate in an emergency on-call rotation (one to two weeks a month)
Participate in collaborative troubleshooting processes
Adhere to company and industry best practice standards for IT troubleshooting. This includes documentation, incident replication and trend analysis
Create positive productive relationships with customers and colleagues
Contribute to the Team’s AI Initiatives, use AI to troubleshoot and understand configuration changes
Other ad hoc duties or projects as assigned