Senior DevOps System Administrator

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The Rockridge Group

New York, NY

Job Description

TITLE: DevOps System Administrator

LOCATION: 140 Broadway, New York, New York

Core Responsibilities:

Manage deployments to test and production environments including backend services and frontend clients
Develop tools and scripts to automate the deployment, administration, and monitoring of AWS cloud services
Collaborate with development team to harden, streamline, document, and establish software release processes
Work with cross functional teams to improve operability, supportability, and usability of our digital infrastructure
Monitor and track key health and performance matrices of systems and applications
Identify, troubleshoot and resolve production server and client issues by analyzing logs from all digital infrastructure components
Continue to improve operational processes for better utilization of underlying cloud resources

Requirements:

Strong background in Linux and Windows administration (clustering, load balancing, backup etc.)
At least 3+ years of DevOps experience with strong shell, python, and Ruby scripting skills
Experience with automation and configuration management using Chef and Ansible
Strong AWS administration experience including EC2/ECS, S3, RDS, VPC, OpsWorks, IAM, EMR, and ElasticSearch services
Ability to use a variety of open-source technologies and integration with cloud services
PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL proficiency
Ability to evaluate system and application logs, error messages, stack traces to quickly identify and solve production problems
Understanding of best practice and data center operations in an always-up, always-available setup
Experience in integration of enterprise level monitoring and alerting systems
Ability to create and maintain update to date infrastructure documentation including systems, networks, databases, and their interactions.