We are looking to hire an experienced DevOps engineer or Sysadmin / Release Engineer. This is a San Jose, CA position.

‍Here are the job specs:

The successful candidate for this position will be THE person responsible for our production platform, and the development and test infrastructure administration across several geographic locations.  

Our technology stack includes:

Java, Spring Framework, Play 1.2OpenKMHibernateJasperSoftAWSLinux/UNIX Administration

Job Description

• Support an always-available cloud-based SaaS platformFull ownership of the system infrastructure in AWS cloudSupport application deployments, building new systems and upgrading and patching existing ones.
• Own release management
• Develop automation to quickly and rapidly deploy instances from hardened images.
• Experience with Chef/Puppet/Docker etc
• Using monitoring tools to find problems, resolve and/or escalate to development and ensure that we exceed our SLAs
• Build and manage development and testing environments, assisting developers in debugging application issues using tools
• Participate in the building of tools and processes to support the infrastructure
• Contribute to the creation of system support documents such as run books used by our NOC
• Leverage scripting to build required automation and tools on an ad hoc basis.
• Operate the platform within our security and privacy guidelines
• Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision.
• Lead an offshore team of DevOps engineers

Job Requirements:

• A bachelor’s degree and 8 years of professional work experience
• Linux administration experience
• Application clustering / load balancing concepts and technologies
• Scripting experience with Chef, Puppet and any other scripting language like Python, Pearl etc
• Experience with containers/Docker
  Release management experience
• Cloud/AWS experience
• Java Application Server administration and tuning experience
• Understanding of protocols/technologies like HTTP, SSL, LDAP, JDBC, Servlet/JSP, SQL, HTML, XML
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Sense of ownership and clarity in thinking
• Automation mindset and proactive to meet SLAs

Plusses:

• Programing and web app development experience preferably in Java
• Extensive scripting experience