Job Description
The Senior DevOps Engineering role will provide technical expertise and guidance on building scalable and resilient platforms for our engineering teams at Live Oak.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- You’ll work on a cross-functional scrum team within a scaled agile environment to build out tooling that enables our feature teams to expedite, validate, and measure the performance of their product deliverables. Essentially, your customers are the other engineering teams, and your products are the common infrastructure, tools, and automation that empowers other engineers to continuously deliver and measure via a self-service model. Below are some of the activities you would perform on a regular basis.
- Be a hands-on contributor that can assist with the roll-out of infrastructure, tools, and processes congruent with a cross-organization DevOps mindset and culture.
- Work with the technology leadership and the broader organization to deliver reliable infrastructure and tools that support our engineering teams and products.
- Participate in continually refining and prioritizing the work necessary to support our DevOps tools and infrastructure.
- Provide system administration and operations support for existing infrastructure and pipelines, while executing on a plan to create tools and automation that enable more of this responsibility to be moved into the engineering teams.
- Introduce and maintain operations tooling that enables engineers to get real-time telemetry on application performance, exception handling and logging, and product usage information.
- Promote the adoption and execution of industry best practices related to continuous integration and delivery, automated deployments, operations, infrastructure, support, and test automation.
- Help establish and document designs, standards, and user guides to help engineers consume the tools you create.
- Manage high-availability and growth of our systems, service updates, systems maintenance, and validation.
- Participate in 24×7 site reliability rotations, escalation workflows, and production incidents management.
Education/Previous Experience:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services, addressing concerns such as Compute, Networking, Storage, Database, and/or Security.
- Ability to work in a team environment and not take yourself too seriously.
- Extensive experience working with infrastructure as code (Cloud Formation, Puppet, Ansible)
- Strong understanding of the Agile methodology and their role within the scrum process
- Experience with API technologies like SOAP, REST and GraphQL
- Working knowledge of configuring firewalls WAF and watching network traffic