Sr. DevOps Engineer - remote

Akido Labs
Posted 3 years ago
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