Full-Time Lead/Sr. DevOps Engineer
Xpansiv is hiring a remote Full-Time Lead/Sr. DevOps Engineer. The career level for this job opening is Senior Manager and is accepting USA based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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Xpansiv, a trailblazer in the energy and environmental commodities market, operates the integrated, open, and neutral market platform designed to accelerate the global energy transition.
Position Summary: We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead our IT specialists in maintaining and improving our software infrastructure. You will collaborate with software engineers, QA engineers, and other IT professionals to deploy, automate, and manage the software infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-native microservices architecture
- Implement automation, effective monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code
- Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
- Support and work alongside a cross-functional engineering team on the latest technologies
- Iterate on best practices to increase the quality & velocity of deployments
- Have on-call responsibilities in rotation with the engineering team
- Increase the sophistication of our alerting and escalation mechanisms
- Help increase system performance with a focus on high availability and scalability
- Propose, scope, design, and implement various infrastructure architectures
- Develop and maintain solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring
- Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards, and make recommendations for improvement
- Perform root cause analysis for production errors
- Continue to keep the lights on (day-to-day administration)
Skills & Qualifications:
- Education: BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant field
- Experience: 12+ years of professional experience as a DevOps/System Engineer
- Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale
- Drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Powershell, Bash, Python, Ruby, etc.)
- Practical experience with Docker containerization and clustering (Kubernetes/ECS)
- Expertise with Azure
- Version control system experience (e.g. Git)
- Working knowledge of databases and SQL
- Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
- Operational experience (e.g. HA/Backups)
- Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Powershell with DSC, Ansible, Chef)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code
- Experience in managing on-premise Active Directory and Domain Controller
- Experience in managing on-premise infrastructure
- Effective communication skills
- Professional experience and a high-level understanding of working with various operating systems and their implications
- Problem-solving attitude
- Collaborative team spirit