DevOps Automation Engineer at Cavista

Job Description

Lead and mentor other engineers in the team for best practices while ensuring effective documentation of how the company's products and services are deployed, provisioned, configured, and supported. 

• Work closely with software engineering and customer-facing teams developing infrastructure and applications, with a focus on driving stability, reliability, scalability, operability, and automated fault recovery of services for company's products and services. 
• Develop innovative ways to smartly measure, monitor & report application and infrastructure health. 
• Evaluate best practices/methodologies for provisioning, configuration management, monitoring to improve organization-wide visibility into how distributed systems interact and perform in production. 
• Document your processes and share knowledge. 
• Troubleshoot issues along with developers, providing systems level and architecture insight to the current issue. 
• Apply DevOps and SRE principles and technologies to support and improve software and infrastructure security across development, testing, and production environments. 
• Assist with planning and implementing migrations to cloud-based infrastructure. 
• Ability to perform quick RCA of any complexity. 
• Wear many hats, while bringing the ability to learn and grasp a complete understanding of the software delivery and application support process. 

Qualifications

• Minimum of five (5) years experience in the fields of SRE, DevOps or production engineering. 
• Strong Windows and Linux Scripting, Scripting languages (Bash, PowerShell, Python). 
• Experience with system configuration software such as Salt, Puppet, Ansible (Salt preferred but not required). 
• Solid understanding of web protocols such as HTTP, TLS, HTTP/2. 
• Solid understanding of Nginx and HAProxy, or similar web proxies and load balancers. 
• Strong Monitoring and alerting experience (ELK, Grafana, Zabbix). 
• Experience with SRE and/or DevOps best practices.[MB1]  
• Strong customer focus and confident in making critical decisions independently in a fast paced and demanding environment. 
• Experience with git in a multi-contributor/team GitOps environment. 
• Networking experience –trouble shooting networking configuration issues in general. 
• Experience with containerization and orchestration frameworks like Docker and Kubernetes is a plus. [MB2] 
• Experience supporting applications and services on Linux, with experience supporting Dot Net and IIS application in Windows Server a plus.[MB3]  
• Experience supporting microservice based SaaS applications is a plus. [MB4]