DevOps Engineer / SRE II

LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN) is the global leader in enterprise conversations. Hundreds of the world’s leading brands — including HSBC, Chipotle, and Virgin Media — use our award-winning Conversational Cloud platform to connect with millions of consumers. We power nearly a billion conversational interactions every month, providing a uniquely rich data set and safety tools to unlock the power of Conversational AI for better customer experiences.  

At LivePerson, we foster an inclusive workplace culture that encourages meaningful connection, collaboration, and innovation. Everyone is invited to ask questions, actively seek new ways to achieve success and reach their full potential. We are continually looking for ways to improve our products and make things better. This means spotting opportunities, solving ambiguities, and seeking effective solutions to the problems our customers care about. 

 
Overview:

LivePerson is looking for a Devops engineer for the GPT (Global Product & Technology) Division. You will be part of the LiverPerson SRE team building and managing highly available, distributed systems. You will have the opportunity to be part of a strong team and enjoy the work environment of a start-up, with a robust product and the benefits of a leading company in its field.

You will: 

• Ensure product high uptime and reliability 24x7.
• Manage Linux servers in a multi-cloud environment
• Manage high availability Kubernetes resources using Helm charts
• Assist with deploying upgrades and patches using Chef/Ansible/Puppet/Helm
• Monitoring and troubleshooting warnings and alerts related to the reporting platform’s performance
• Develop monitoring resources and alerting systems such as Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, DataDog and PagerDuty
• Coordinate with DBA and developers to manage SQL and NOSQL database systems, including MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Postgres, MySQL and others
• Managing message bus systems such as Kafka and Pulsar
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins/Gitlab/Teamcity

You have:

• Minimum 3+ years of experience of managing cloud based production environment (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc)
• Highly experienced working in the Linux environment, good scripting in Bash / Python.
• Highly experienced working configuration management systems like OpsCode Chef, Ansible, Puppet,  etc.
• Strong experience in Terraform, CloudFormation or other IAC
• Experienced in SQL, including DDL and complex queries
• Experienced working in the Kubernetes platform
• Experience working in a microservices architecture using a message bus
• Good knowledge of CI/CD pipelines orchestrators like TeamCity, Jenkins, Gitlab
• Ability to integrate security best practices into the SRE workflow.
• Highly motivated and independent.
• Team player and excellent interpersonal Skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• A strong background in cloud, network and application security and compliance
• Experience with GPT or other LLMs a strong advantage

Benefits:

• Health: medical, dental, and vision
• Time away: vacation and holidays
• Development: Generous tuition reimbursement and access to internal professional development resources
• Equal opportunity employer
• #LI-Remote

Why you’ll love working here: 

As leaders in enterprise customer conversations, we celebrate diversity, empowering our team to forge impactful conversations globally. LivePerson is a place where uniqueness is embraced, growth is constant, and everyone is empowered to create their own success. And, we're very proud to have earned recognition from Fast Company, Newsweek, and BuiltIn for being a top innovative, beloved, and remote-friendly workplace. 

Belonging at LivePerson:

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.

We are committed to the accessibility needs of applicants and employees. We provide reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should inform their recruiting contact upon initial connection.