We are looking for an AWS DevOps Engineer/SysAdmin to monitor, manage, improve, and scale our AWS environment, and to work closely with the development team to streamline our development and release pipeline.
The ideal candidate is a self-starter, has a high level of attention to detail, is comfortable asking questions, enjoys working with talented colleagues, and has an interest in analytics and data visualization.
Responsibilities include:
- Standard Linux systems administration tasks (performance tuning, back-up and recovery, monitoring, troubleshooting, installations, patches and upgrades, security, automation)
- Management of dev, test, and production environments with configuration management (Ansible, Packer)
- AWS specific tasks (EC2, S3, RDS PostgreSQL/MySQL, VPC, Cloudformation, AutoScaling, CodeDeploy, ECS/EKS, cost management, etc.)
- Management of our Atlassian stack (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, etc.)
- Management of remote access for our distributed team (AWS VPC, OpenVPN, SSH)
- Assisting with management of cloud data lake platform (Presto, Hadoop, Hive)
- Working with development team to expand/improve our CI/CD processes and environments
- Some on-call/after hours work required as-needed for upgrades, maintenance, migrations, etc.
Our team members can live and work anywhere in the United States or Canada. This is a part-time, 15-20 hours per week position.
Skills & Requirements:
- Expert Linux systems administration skills (5+ years of experience)
- Expert AWS administration skills (2+ years of experience)
- Experience managing PostgreSQL
- Experience building and installing packages from source
- Experience with Bash and Python scripting
- Experience with at least one config management tool (Ansible or Saltstack preferred)
- Understanding of CI/CD best practices and tooling
- Experience with containers, container orchestration, and cloud data lakes a plus
- Must work well independently
- Must have a high level of attention to detail
- Must have strong analytical and problem solving skills
We look forward to receiving your application.
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