DevOps Engineer

DevOps is an advanced role responsible for working in collaboration with software engineering to deploy and operate GeoWealth’s development environment and systems. It also entails automating and streamlining the firm’s operations and processes, building and maintaining tools for deployment, monitoring and operations as well as troubleshooting and resolving issues in our development, testing and production environments.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Strong Amazon Web Services experience that includes creation of cloud formation templates to build AWS services that can support our custom Java application.
• Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration
• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef or an equivalent
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services (experience with AWS is required)
• Experience with Oracle
• A working understanding of code and script (PHP, Python, Perl and/or Ruby)
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a desire to take on responsibility
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate technical issues to both technical and nontechnical audiences
• Networking knowledge of firewalls, VPNs, proxies and load balancers
• Web/Application servers Apache, Tomcat, JVM environments
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging systems such as LogRobot, Graphite, LogicMonitor, Logentries, SumoLogic, ELK Stack is an advantage
• Storage, any of the following – NFS, SANs, RAID, lvm
• Experience using and administering software version control systems (SVN, Git etc.)
• Familiarity with Atlassian Suite (Confluence, JIRA, HipChat etc.) is an advantage
• Ability to work independently, learn quickly and be proactive
• Ability to join a 24×7 on-call roster on occasion
• Ability to work off-routine hours on occasion

KEY ADVANTAGES:

• Competitive Compensation
• Good Benefits
• Flexible and Friendly Environment
• Challenging Industry Landscape