About the Role
As a Sr. DevOps Engineer at Akido Labs, you will join a dynamic team of DevOps engineers to ensure the continuous improvement of our virtualized infrastructure and to achieve the world-class availability, performance, and security required to deliver solutions for our healthcare and government customers.
Responsibilities
- Deploy, upgrade, operate/maintain, and scale our suite of products and services
- Closely collaborate with Software Engineers to create highly operable and maintainable products
- Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
- Provide end-user support to engineering for products
Basic Qualifications
- 5 years of Site Reliability or DevOps type experience
- 5 years of experience with Linux operating systems
- 1 year of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
- Experience with Puppet, Ansible, or other automation frameworks
- Automation skills in shell bash, Python, and/or other languages
- Experience with source code and version control tools such as Git
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems/IT or engineering
- 8 years of Systems Administration, Site Reliability Engineering, or DevOps experience
- 8 years of experience with Linux operating systems
- 3 years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
- Strong understanding of Docker, Vagrant, and Kubernetes, or similar technologies
- Strong understanding of virtualization and hypervisor technologies
- Understanding of databases and data modeling
- Experience with automatically managing dozens or hundreds of servers
- Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques
- Experience with workflow and issue management tools such as GitLab and Asana
- Strong networking knowledge of TCP/IP
- Must be comfortable working with critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities
- Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate with customers, peers, management etc. in both formal and informal situations