DevOps Engineer - Jr/Mid Level
Zipdev, Mexico

Zipdev has a dynamic opportunity for a DevOps Engineer to join our successful organization as a key contributor. Our team enjoy our flexible, fast-paced, collaborative culture and the ability to directly impact our business. Engineers will be exposed to a multitude of technologies and architectures. This is a great place to learn new technologies and build your skills. Respect, integrity, teamwork, and passion are at the core of what we do.

POSITION SCOPE: The scope of these activities will primarily be focused on the management of our clients AWS based infrastructures and applications.

Primary duties and responsibilities:

Work on multiple client projects involving any of the following:

• Create/Maintain AWS Infrastructure.
• Create/Maintain Terraform / Ansible scripts to build out AWS network architectures.
• Create/Maintain GitHub Actions, GitLab Runner, and Jenkins-based CI / CD pipelines.
• Manage Runbooks.
• Plan, integrate, administer, and support multiple on-prem and cloud-based systems.
• Participate in code reviews for automation scripts developed by other team members using Git-based pull/merge techniques.
• Participate in during-the-day on-call rotations (Monday-Saturday)
• Assess, recommend, configure, and support monitoring tools in order to create telemetry and reduce the feedback loop between operations and development teams.
• Evaluate infrastructure utilization data in support of capacity planning, budgeting, and infrastructure expansion.
• Resolve problems in the entire application stack using Root Cause Analysis techniques.
• Perform other projects or miscellaneous duties as requested or assigned. • Participate in the rotation of our 24x7 Tier 1 support team.

Our Recruitment Process

• 15-minute Initial Call
• 20-minute take-home skills test
• 30-minute Call with the Recruiter (project, benefits, etc.)
• Interviews directly with the client (depending on the project the # of interviews may vary, this may include a code assessment)
• Final Offer

Requirements

• BA or BS degree or equivalent experience/certifications.
• Experience in systems administration with Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu) and Windows platforms.
• 2-4 years as DevOps engineer specifically
• 2-4 Years working with AWS or a very solid understanding of building infrastructures in AWS.
• Terraform experience
• Kubernetes experience. A good understanding of how Kubernetes works, configuring and tuning, autoscaling, Pod Scaling, etc.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Strong technical troubleshooting skills
• A desire to grow technical and/or programming skills
• Knowledge of network principals
• Server hardware principals
• Experience with cloud services
• Experience with monitoring services
• Experience with Continuous Integration best practices
• Experience communicating technical specifications to both technical and non-technical individuals and clients
• Some understanding of web application structures and deployment.
• Knowledge/experience in a 24/7 always-up, always-available service.
• Must be able to adjust to constant business change including new requirements, evolving goals and strategies, and emerging technologies.

Other beneficial knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Working knowledge and development or operations experience with AWS services such as VPCs, Peering, SecurityGroups, EC2, S3, EBS, Aurora, RDS, etc.
• Experience with AWS management tools such as CloudWatch, Trusted Advisor, and CloudTrail.
• Cloud infrastructure automation in the Amazon Web Services environment utilizing Terraform.
• Working knowledge of Nginx, Tomcat, and Microsoft IIS.
• Experience with Docker containers and Orchestration such as Kubernetes and ECS.
• Experience working with monitoring and log aggregation technologies such as DataDog, AppDynamics, New Relic, Loggly, PaperTrail, Sumo Logic, Splunk, ELK Stack, etc.
• Experience with application load balancing technology products such as EC2 ELB/ALB.
• General exposure to a wide range of technologies including Internet, application development, network infrastructure, and business process.
• On-call availability to diagnose/recover systems outside business hours when required
• Familiarity with Software Development Lifecycle (SLDC), and deployment best practices
• Familiarity with QA; its related requirements, intent and purpose
• Familiarity of how to perform and provide Capacity Assessment(s) and other simila

Job Rewards and Benefits