Your solutions will impact our customers directly! This job requires you to constantly hit the ground running and your ability to learn quickly and work on disparate and overlapping tasks will define your success. High Impact production issues often require coordination between multiple Development, Operations and IT Support groups, so you get to experience a breadth of impact with various groups.
The ideal candidate must be detail oriented, have superior verbal and written communication skills, strong organizational skills, able to juggle multiple tasks at once, able to work independently and can maintain professionalism under pressure. You must be able to identify problems before they happen and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages. You must be able to accurately prioritize projects, make sound judgments, work to improve the customer experience, and get the right things done.
Key job responsibilities
This engineer will lead the design and implementation of new tools, pipelines and automation, will work with DevOps Engineers and software development engineers.
Planning and coordinating feature improvements and upgrades around services.
Bring part of the team working on improving our service Operational Excellence and availability for PEAK periods.
Analyzing and improving availability, efficiency, capacity, scalability, security and performance of our services.
Representing Systems while working with internal teams and external partners.
Troubleshooting and resolving problems with production systems as part of our on-call rotation.
Developing, automating and maintaining tools.
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the software release process.
Mentoring Junior Engineers and being part of their design reviews, code reviews and setting architectural direction along with coaching for their career growths.
A day in the life
As a System Development Engineer, you will maintain, develop and automate AFT tools. You will manage the Operational Excellence of the infrastructure for high availability, monitor security and compliance.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
3+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
Experience with networking fundamentals including hands-on experience with load balancers, switches, routers, etc.
Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
Experience with distributed systems at scale
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