DevOps Engineer

Sovereign Technologies is an USA based information technology consulting and software services firm providing cost effective services and solutions to clients in North America and Asia Pacific.

Dev Ops Engineer / Greater Seattle area (Eastside)

• Designing and building infrastructure to support our client’s multi-region AWS based Cloud infrastructure /services
• Create and use tools to monitor our applications and services in the cloud including system health indicators, trend identification, and anomaly detection
• Automating system build outs and the application deployment pipeline using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Chef
• Working with development teams to help engineer scalable, reliable, and resilient software running in the cloud
• Enhance pro-active monitoring of systems, services and hardware to solve problems before they are noticed by internal and external customers
• Create and use infrastructure automation and configuration management frameworks to create repeatable and deterministic environments that provide visibility into the health and reporting metrics of the system
• Provide and improve incident and problem management coverage and support
• Analyzing and monitor performance bottlenecks and key metrics in order to optimize software and system performance
• Provide and improve analytics and forecasts for cloud capacity, troubleshooting analysis, and uptime
• Participate in on-call escalation to troubleshoot customer facing issues (target rotation is once a week every two months)

• BS in Computer Science / Engineering or related field
• 3 - 5 years Web Development or Operations background understanding concepts such as distributed systems, alerting, monitoring, logging, and incident management
• 3 - 5 experience implementing, troubleshooting, and supporting LAMP environments (Linux, Apache, MySql, and PHP)
• Understanding of one or more programming languages such as Java, Ruby, Perl, Python, or C++
• Experience with highly available distributed Linux server environments
• Understanding of Linux core fundamentals, command-line operations, scripting, and service monitoring
• Firm understanding of version control systems such as subversion and git
• Experience with cloud infrastructure services a plus; specifically AWS EC2, S3, VPC, Route 53
• Experience with automation and configuration management using provisioning tools like Chef/Puppet
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies, working in small teams, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Firm understanding of networking concepts and technologies
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills
• Self-directed, team oriented, and business enabled

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