Support Labs DevOps Engineer

Alation continues to hire for roles at various locations with all interviewing and on-boarding done virtually due to COVID-19 crisis.

Big Data isn't a problem. It's an opportunity.

At Alation, we help people find, understand, and trust data, so they not only excel in their work - they drive value for their enterprise, team and role. In the words of our customers, "Alation is our one-stop-shop for our data and analytics. It's bringing people together to collaborate and solve our business problems."

More than 400 enterprises drive data culture, improve decision making, and realize business outcomes with Alation, including AbbVie, Allianz Global Investors, American Family Insurance, Autozone, Cisco, Draft Kings, Exelon, Fifth Third Bank, Finnair, General Mills, Munich Re, NASDAQ, Parexel, Pfizer, Salesforce, Virgin Australia, and Vistaprint.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Alation is a 3X winner of Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces and is backed by leading venture capitalists including Blackstone, Costanoa, Data Collective, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Icon, ISAI Cap, Riverwood, Salesforce, Sanabil, Sapphire, and Snowflake Ventures. For more information, visit alation.com.

With more than $217M in funding - valued at $1.2 billion, Alation is poised to capitalize on data as an opportunity. Our exceptional Glassdoor ratings reflect a culture that makes coming to work each day a joy. Do you want to join a team that welcomes new ideas, supports your growth and recognizes your unique value?

Join us!

This role can be hired at any location in the US.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build, maintain, and update scripts for deployment environments, mainly written in terraform and running in Jenkins.
• Automation and processes required to deploy, manage, configure, scale, and monitor internal, product and cloud-based applications
• Replicate customer infrastructure in AWS and help support engineers to troubleshoot issues.
• Suggest improvements and enhancements to customer environments to help resolve technical support issues
• Work collaboratively with team members to ensure successful delivery and implementation of assigned tasks
• Learn and understand the Alation product at an advanced level to be able to master it's configuration and administration skills
• Ability to read documentation for data sources and setup connections as needed with the Alation product
• Willing to learn new tools and technologies
• Work with Operations and Escalation disciplines to help resolve customer issues and reduce turnaround time

You Should Have

• Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science is preferred
• Minimum 3 -5 years of professional experience as an Infrastructure, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineer in high scale Production environments.
• Experience with the core AWS services, VPC, EC2, RDS, IAM, S3, LAMBDA, ACM, ECS, EKS
• MUST - Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, using CloudFormation, Terraform, or other tools
• MUST - Experience developing cloud native CI/CD workflows and tools, such as Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, Code Deploy (AWS) and/or GitLab.
• Experience with Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments
• Good background in Linux/Unix administration.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and other cloud native architectures
• Working knowledge of authentication protocols like Kerberos, SAML, LDAP
• Working knowledge of networking tools and infrastructure like firewalls, load balancers, proxies is a must
• Experience of a scripting language, preferably Bash and Python.
• Hands on Windows OS
• Experience with Git/Github
• Beneficial to also have Azure certifications, AWS certifications, and Terraform certifications

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More About Alation

Our founders have come together from different backgrounds: business, engineering, and design. This unique mix from our founding team is important to the Alation culture story. Today, our team consists of creators and communicators with varied backgrounds - from Stanford, to the Indian Institute of Technology, big companies and one-person startups, the United States, and abroad. We continue to seek ever more diverse perspectives as we grow.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on

the basis of race, name, religion, color, national origin, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Why Alation?

- Market-Leading Data Catalog Provider

- High-growth, collaborative environment with diverse and inclusive teams

- Continuous learning, enrichment and development opportunities

- Competitive pay and health offerings including commuter benefits

- Flexible time off to relax and recharge

and much, much more!