DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the day-to-day development & support work on the Monitoring team.
• Be able to quickly ramp-up on the many different components/services - built on different technology stacks, Operations Systems and use different build and deploy pipelines - to add new features and fix issues.  
• Very good debugging skills to troubleshoot issues in a timely manner and recommend the root cause fixes for the issues.
• Be able to work closely with the users of the system to understand their problems and exercise empathy and maturity while working with them to solve the problems.
• Continue to work with the Architects to guide the vision and direction for the Monitoring team technically
• Collaborate with other engineers on code reviews, internal infrastructure improvements and process enhancements.
• Ensure minimal operational overhead by automating maintenance tasks with easily manageable configurations, solving scalability bottlenecks to improve performance and maximize system availability by ensuring functional and performance SLAs.
• Design, implement, and test complex, multi-tier distributed software application frameworks collaboratively with peers and technical leaders.
• Mentor junior staff and/or team members in the best practices of code quality and coding practices. Enhances code quality across multiple projects and/or business units. Recognized for tech debt reduction.
• Evangelize our teams and technologies across the enterprise to encourage adoption.
• Architecting, designing and executing migration strategies from existing experiences and services to new infrastructure
• Project planning and estimating effort for the different phases
• Ability to work collaboratively with team members to achieve end vision
• Be part of the interview team to hire and build a world class engineering team that will make an impact on how we do engineering at PayPal

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience planning, architecting, designing, developing and delivering software related to platforms at scale
• Passionate and staying up-to-date on the latest technologies and platforms.
• Demonstrated knowledge of automation for most of the manual tasks around SDLC with techniques such as packaging with Docker, ensuring a reliable CI/CD pipeline to build and deploy code, automated system restarts and alerting for all critical modules.
• Should be able to isolate errors by trouble-shooting the application stack from application to framework to underlying infrastructure dependencies and network.
• Knowledge of Devops container/orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker, Puppet, etc)
• Hands-On experience in Java, Python or GoLang and working knowledge with messaging platforms like KAFKA.
• Hands-on knowledge of OOP/OOD/Functional languages along with strong understanding of concurrency, parallelism, networking, with profound data structure & algorithms.
• Experience developing solutions for service monitoring, automated remediation, measuring availability and reliability, performance, analytics, network.
• Knowledge about building non-lossy data pipelines using at least one streaming technology like Flink, Samza or Spark.
• Experience with REST API, GIT, Docker, Jenkins, RxJava and Spring boot.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.