DevOps Engineer

Company: SolarWinds
Location: Morrisville
Posted on: February 18, 2021

Job Description:

Who We Are:At SolarWinds-- MSP your success is our main mission. We consider it our job to empower you, our MSP partners, to solve today's toughest IT challenges for your customers by giving you a portfolio of monitoring, security, and business tools that are simple, integrated, and powerful.For 20 years, we have focused on serving technology professionals, aligning with your needs-meeting you where you are-to support your success.Role Overview: We are seeking a DevOps engineer to design and support our SAAS products operating predominantly locally managed Datacenters with some components in AWS. If you are passionate about delivering company-wide impact, having exposure across many teams and divisions, as well as collaborating toward a unified company approach, then this role is for you! You will be joining a team with an already proven track record of operational excellence and continual pragmatic growth.The team supports multiple large-scale global SaaS products.--In order to be effective, you will need to be comfortable collaborating with peers across different time zones in North America and Europe, be adaptable to change, show ownership/leadership, as well as be a champion to further our continuous improvement culture. In this role, you will also have to participate in the team's on call rotation to support the platform/applications/services managed by the team.Responsibilities:As a DevOps engineer, you will be tasked with many things. Namely, you can expect your day-to-day responsibilities to include:* Managing Linux based servers spread across DCs* Basic knowledge of how e-mail flow works and experience with EXIM.* Promote our DevOps best practices by collaborating with developers/managers during various phases of development.* Create CI/CD pipelines to deliver tier-2 level company services.* Kubernetes application management with troubleshooting of the application itself.* Participate in on-call after hours support rotation.* Collaborate across time zones (NA, EMEA), teams, and business functions as needed for team projects.* Extend existing Ansible configuration as well as creating new playbooks* Debugging issues that arise for applications/services running in support of engineering teams.* Implement tooling and integrations that improve security posture of platforms and our customers/teams.* Automation and simplification of existing processes and runbooks.* Assist in defining the team roadmap, goals, and needs.* Weekly sprint planning for your project work, task creation and prioritization.Qualifications:You will need to have hands-on experience, or certifications, in several of the following:* Amazon Web Services (AWS)* Containerization - Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud platforms (ECS, EKS, GKE, OpenShift, etc.)* Jenkins* Ansible Playbooks* Linux Administration* Fundamental understanding of Networking and Routing* On-Call or after-hours enterprise application supportEducation / Experience:* Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline, or 5+ years of industry experience* 3+ years of relevant technical experience in a DevOps or SRE capacity* 1+ years of experience working in AWS* Relevant current certifications are a plusSolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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