DevOps Engineer - Los Angeles

Job Description

Salary: $150k - $180k per year

Industry: Media & Entertainment

Location: Los Angeles

Experience: Experienced

Job type: Full Time

Who we are looking for

We are looking for individuals whose highest motivation comes from doing their best work, who are passionate about technology and have their eyes and minds open to fresh perspectives.

We enjoy working with people who problem-solve to get things done and move the product forward. That means contributing your own ideas, balancing perfectionism with efficacy and efficiency, and working as part of the team towards our shared goals.

The markets we play in are ever changing, so we expect you to do your part so that our team stays agile, expects the unexpected and never gives up.

The position

As a Dev Ops Engineer you will be responsible for helping design, secure, and maintain infrastructure for the company. You will work closely with developers to ensure that our products are built to effectively utilize AWS. A successful candidate will also be responsible for working with our team to efficiently manage software deployment to infrastructure. You will also help in making sure we have all the tools and insights needed to make informed decisions about the maintenance and evolution of the infrastructure.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain and create CI/CD workflows
• Maintain and create Kubernetes deployments
• Maintain and create infrastructure using Terraform
• Maintain and create infrastructure and security monitoring, alerting, and logging
• Respond to incidents and resolve issues with our environments
• Collaborate with the developers to make sure we are using best practices and properly utilizing resources to maximize value for every dollar we spend

Our technology and tools

• We build our infrastructure using Terraform and Serverless Framework
• We deploy Kubernetes services using Helm
• We leverage Kubernetes to run the bulk of our services
• We leverage FaaS & Serverless for some of our newer services
• We are a fully cloud-based company with a strong relationship with AWS
  , all of our infrastructure is deployed in AWS
• We integrate our code continuously with CircleCI and Git Hub Action
• We manage our code on Git Hub
• We track our requirements and work using JIRA and Confluence
• We write our core software code with NodeJS runtime and Type Script as a language, and use a mixture of Type Script/Bash Scripting and Python for our internal software tools.

Your needed qualifications

• You have several years of experience working in and designing highly automated and highly available architectures
• You are fluent in AWS product offerings and best practices
• You have a passion for implementing Dev Ops practices to perform your responsibilities
• You demonstrate deep understanding of how to build scalable applications and services
• You are fluent with our core tools, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Serverless
• You can quickly create prototypes of ideas to demonstrate its worth to the team
• You can create and monitor the health, security, and usage of resources in our environment
• You can work closely with a team of people and effectively communicate
• You are able to be part of an on-call rotation with other team members, after the probationary period
• You are able to understand and write code, or you are willing to learn, in order to help debug production level incidents as well as manage the internal software tools.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certifications, minimum associate level certification.
• Some experience with languages such as Type Script/JavaScript, Bash Scripting, Python or other similar programming languages.
• Experience with streaming video workflows
• Azure Media Services experience
• Experience with threat and vulnerability management, OWASP, and other security related tools and practices.