Desired Skills and Experience
- Periodically assess all monitoring requirements and implement necessary enhancements to meet changing/growing business needs
- Enhance current automation processes of managing capacity, safely deploying software and mitigating failures
- Tune and troubleshoot full-stack software applications using OOPS, Java, web-services, Oracle DB, Mongo DB, networks concepts and virtualization techniques
- Proactively review, recommend and implement changes to the live infrastructure after ensuring the right validation has been carried out
- Assist in roll out and deployment of new product features and installations to facilitate rapid iteration.
- Confidently make informed, data-driven decisions in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities
- Create and maintain Chef recipes for instance configuration management
- Participate in 24/7 on call rotation and after hours deployment
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline (Master’s preferred)
- At least 3 years’ coding experience (with Java, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, or Python)
- Experience with production releases, maintenance, and monitoring
- Experience with build tools, orchestration tools, and virtual machine frameworks
- Skills with log analysis and troubleshooting
- Strong background in Unix/Linux administration
- Experience with automation/configuration management using Chef, Puppet, or equivalent
- Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services (AWS required)
- Understanding of coding and scripting with Shell, PowerShell, Python, Ruby and/or Perl
- Strong experience with SQL and MySQL (NoSQL is a big plus)
- Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in a 24/7 environment
- Self-motivate and technically curious
- Ability to work independently and prioritize effectively
- Ability to perform merging, branching and configuration management of SCM systems
- 2+ years’ experience with Maven and/or Gradle
- Experience with Source control management tools like SVN and Git
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