Senior DevOps Engineer

Description

You will be joining Azira, a global Consumer Insights platform, helping marketing and operational leaders improve their effectiveness with actionable intelligence to drive business results. Its mission is to create a more relevant world where brands are empowered to reach and build relationships with their consumers.

Azira is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to perform day-to-day activities and support the company’s data centers, software and applications platforms that service the entire business. It is a demanding role that requires the candidate to be capable of working with cross-functional teams and diagnosing complex issues on various platforms.

The ideal candidate should have extensive programming experience and should be able to serve the business’s sites, software, and applications at a production and support capacity. The candidate should also have superior troubleshooting skills and knowledge of monitoring and alerting mechanisms.

A Day in the Life

• Manage large-scale production environment and mission-critical infrastructure.
• Handle stability, automation, scalability, deployment, monitoring, alerting, and security and ensure maximum availability of Azira’s tech infrastructure.
• Manage distributed big data systems composed of Kafka, EMR, Spark, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis/Valkey, Google AppEngine, and other cloud services.
• Work closely with big data, data science, and software engineering teams to ensure the infrastructure is capable of serving current and future needs and work independently when needed.
• Set up monitoring systems, and create and maintain operational run-books.
• Participate in 24×7 on-call support roles on a rotational basis as needed.
• Influence, create, and contribute to the automation platform.
• Ability to work independently and take complete ownership of assigned modules, including collaborating with other teams.

What You Bring to the Role

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in B.Tech/M.Tech.
• 6-8 years of working experience as a DevOps engineer.

• Experience with RHEL, CentOS, or Ubuntu system administration.
• 3+ years of strong proficiency with essential Google Cloud and AWS services including IAM, S3/buckets, VPCs.
• 2+ years experience working with automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• 4+ years of strong knowledge of DevOps principles and the use of CI/CD tools such as Github Actions, Jenkins, Artifactory, Nexus, Bitbucket, etc.
• 1+ years of experience with observability/monitoring tools such as Prometheus or Grafana.
• High-level technical experience with front-end web technologies, CDN, and web server configuration (Apache/Nginx).
• 2+ years experience with container orchestration services including Docker or Kubernetes.
• 2+ years experience with defining and deploying monitoring, metrics, and logging systems.
• 4+ years of experience with source code versioning and pull requests with Git.
• 5+ years experience scripting in bash; Python/other a plus.
• Proficiency in documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills necessary to work effectively with other team members.