Position: Senior DevOps Engineer
Company: High5
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

We are looking for a creative Senior DevOps engineer to manage the transition between project planning and software deployment.

You will also be required to forecast project duration and cost.

To ensure success as a senior DevOps engineer, you should demonstrate extensive experience in DevOps engineering and managing junior developers. Outstanding senior DevOps engineers optimize and enhance a company's software performance.

LOCATION: Onsite-- Remote-- Hybrid
Chicago, IL, USA

Mandatory Skills

· Technical Stack

· Cloud:

· AWS

· Services

· Written in functional Scala

· Databases: +

· Snowflake, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL RDS

· Ops

· Kubernetes (EKS), ALBS, CloudFront, S3, Nix, Docker, Lambda, Terraform, Honeycomb, Gitlab CI

Qualifications:

--Our software efficiently evaluates portfolios, offers deep insights, and helps mitigate operational risk to power investment decisions running on the JVM and deployed into an AWS-managed Kubernetes cluster (EKS) accessing multiple data stores provisioned inside and outside of our own AWS accounts.

--This position is working on a team to build out our portfolio performance infrastructure and as a result, these are the kinds of activities you will likely work on in the foreseeable future:

--Configure and manage infrastructure with code driven through a delivery pipeline

--Tune and update the CI/CD pipeline in Gitlab      after discussion with the development team

--Build a ChatOps bot to help all engineers optimize their workflow

--Configure and tune JVM options for Scala services running in containers in EKS

--Configure k8s resources such as virtual services, pods, etc. 

--Using a configuration management tool (e.g. shall-Kubernetes, helm, helpfile)

--Ensure the Nix developer environment has all relevant infrastructure tooling developers require

--Set up and maintain cluster infrastructure for collecting instrumentation and logs to relay to the appropriate destinations (e.g. Honeycomb, CloudWatch Logs, etc.)

--Help developers troubleshoot issues after      service deployments

--Provide ways to improve observability of the services and EKS cluster