Position Overview:

Logicworks, a fast-growing cloud computing and managed hosting firm located in New York, NY is seeking an AWS-Focused DevOps Engineer to join our team.

Responsibilities:

As a DevOps member of a Senior Engineering technical staff consisting of experts in many adjacent areas (Windows, Linux, VMWare, SQL, Storage), you will drive growth our Managed AWS service (mAWS) by building next generation managed AWS solutions for all manner of businesses. You will also contribute to our proprietary knowledge base of automation to ensure efficient scalability for future builds.

Logicworks provides a fast-paced, dynamic work environment where engineers work closely with specialists in all areas to provide unique yet scalable solutions for our clients. A typical project may be the onboarding of an existing AWS client, assessing their environment, recommending and executing changes and implementing automated deployment to improve scale and resiliency. You will also collaborate with other expert engineers and our R&D team to continue finding new areas that can be improved by bringing a DevOps mindset to other product offerings. You will be able to further your skills in adjacent areas by serve as an escalation point for builds, implementations, and support issues of our clients.

Desired Skills and Experience

  • 5+ years System administration and engineering experience
  • 2+ years DevOps focus with puppet or chef experience
  • 2+ years experience with Amazon Web Services as a platform
  • High level scripting skills: Bash/Python/Ruby
  • Virtualization and cloud platforms: VMware, Xenserver and KVM, OpenStack, Cloudstack, AWS
  • Experience with Docker highly preferred
  • Experience with application load balancing solutions for scaling and HA
  • Linux and/or Windows administration experience
  • Well versed in internet architectures, including web, application, and database components such as Apache, IIS, memcache, MySQL, SQL Server, etc.
  • Experience with SANs and NAS including iSCSI, NFS and FC
  • Deep understanding of firewalls, NAT and packet filtering (specifically Iptables)
  • General Networking skills required (Layer 2 & 3 switches, TCP/IP, SNMP, etc.)
  • Strong interpersonal communication skills and the ability to communicate with customers, vendors and partners, and across all levels of the organization
  • Ability to interact, develop, engineer and communicate at the highest technical levels of organizational decision-making
  • Well organized, attentive to details and able to meet demanding deadlines
  • College degree or equivalent experience