Mid Level AWS DevOps Engineer

ShipHero has a lot of great opportunities.

Hello. We are ShipHero (https://shiphero.com). We have built a software platform entrusted by hundreds of eCommerce companies, large and small to run their operations and we continue to grow. About US$5 billion of eCommerce orders are shipped a year via ShipHero. Our customers sell on Shopify, Amazon, Etsy, eBay, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and many other platforms. We’re driven to help our customers grow their businesses by providing a platform that solves complex problems, and is engineered to be reliable and fast. We are obsessed with building great technology that is beautiful, easy to use, and is loved by our customers. Our culture also reflects our ethos and belief that by bringing passionate, talented, and great people together - you can do great things.

Our DevOps team is looking for talented AWS Cloud DevOps Engineers looking to grow with us.

Suppose you have a couple of years (3+) of AWS expertise in production environments; you know S3, RDS, Cloudwatch Logs, and Terraform combined with solid Linux fundamentals. In that case, we will engage you, challenge you, and help you grow and mature as you take on new responsibilities.

Do you have what it takes to become a member of our ShipHero team?

If you reside within AEST Time Zones (Australia), an EU country, Canada, the US, or the Americas and you're curious?

Apply so we can talk about you becoming a member of our ShipHero DevOps team.

Our team is fully remote; the company has always been remote. We communicate regularly using video chat and Slack and emphasize asynchronous work, so people have large chunks of uninterrupted time to focus and do deep work.

We are looking for talented MId-level DevOps Engineers to join our growing team. We are looking for individuals with a recent track record of working with complex infrastructure within AWS (Amazon Web Services). You would be joining as a fundamental member of our team focusing on building a solid foundation for our platforms. We seek excited and driven people to continue growing with the experience of working with talented engineers and helping others improve.

To apply for this role you must reside in either Australia, an EU Country, Canada, the US, or the Americas


About You

You understand that great things are accomplished when people and teams work together.

You feel comfortable owning processes and tools for deploying to production and scaling.

You understand modern web architectures and tiers.

You have a good understanding of cloud security and are enthusiastic to expand your knowledge in AWS Security Best Practices

You take pride in your craft.

You have made (a lot of) mistakes and most importantly have learned from them.

You have worked on medium and large projects that have gone to production and lived there for a while.

You are eager to learn, contribute and grow with a supporting team of DevOps professionals.

Tech Knowledge

We are looking for 4+ years of experience with:

* AWS (Amazon Web Services) –you have a couple of years of AWS expertise in production environments; you know S3, RDS, Cloudwatch Logs, and maybe even Terraform combined with solid Linux fundamentals

* Python (preferably 3.6+)

* Linux (Amazon Linux 1/2 and Ubuntu 18.04)

* Git version control (we use Github)

* CI/CD automation (we use GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, and CodePipeline)

* Terraform Expertise is required

Bonus Tech Knowledge (Nice to have but not required)

* AWS Elastic Beanstalk

* Docker and building images including multi-stage with secrets

* Monitoring tools

* Container security | ECS, Docker

* Elasticsearch

* AWS Organizations and multi-region / multi-account

The Role

Hands-on configuration, setup & maintaining our staging and production environments.

Collaborate with engineers on monitoring & debugging solutions.

Developing, automating, and operating our cloud infrastructure platform

Respond to incidents, ensuring the restoration of services when required

Contribute to the team's backlog of activities.

Be part of on-call support.

Automate yourself and others out of common tasks.

Ability to estimate effort and ship on an agreed schedule. Comfortable pushing yourself and your team members when challenges pop up.

Learn and push those around you to do the same – this is a craft that you’re constantly improving upon.

Implement solutions that are pragmatic to get the platform built.

Have the confidence to work with experienced and talented people to build great things; you are not a “rock star” but a team player that takes initiative.

We want everyone to be self-sufficient and firmly believe how we collaborate & communicate is of significant importance. Here is a glimpse of how we roll: https://shiphero.com/careers/communication-guidelines/

The Perks

$2.500 so you can buy any equipment you need to be happy at your job

20 days paid vacation + New Year & Christmas

Conference days don’t count against your vacation days, we want you to stay up-to-date

We will pay for courses & conferences; if you learn we all learn