Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Smarterer/Pluralsight is seeking a Sr. Dev Ops Engineer to help scale our systems, optimize our infrastructure and improve our build and release process. They also must be awesome.

• Work with a close-knit team of architects and developers on supporting and deploying mission‑critical systems used by thousands of people every day.
• Performance tuning, monitoring, maintaining fault‑tolerant/HA infrastructure.
• Prepare deployment and release plans and execute releases to a high‑availability, multi‑tiered, scalable production environment with zero downtime.
• Manage deployments to test and staging environments.
• Work with Development, Operations, and Customer Care teams to help achieve a high quality of release management.
• Assist with the development of a test automation framework.
• Assist the optimization and automation of the release process.
• Lead virtualization effort to help Platform and Data teams in faster turnaround of experimental and testing environments.
• On‑call rotation with participation in 24x7 support.

• Our servers are provisioned on Ubuntu Linux. Strong Linux scripting (Ubuntu/MacOS/CentOS).
• AWS experience is desired as well as understanding and implementation of best practices in cloud infrastructure, networking, and coding.
• Candidate should have experience in the following Dev Ops software:
• Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Cloud Formation, Puppet, Hiera.
• Virtualization technologies (VMWare).
• Strong coding and scripting experience in Python and/or Bash.
• Solid knowledge of SCM tools and methodology, primarily GIT.
• An outstanding work ethic, high‑integrity, team player attitude.
• Lifelong learner.

We believe in truth telling, freedom, and changing the world. We’re a creative group of storytellers, scientists, mathematicians, and athletes, who believe that a 1980s approach to skills isn’t going to cut it in 2015. Come join our Flock.