Senior Devops Engineer

Exiger Product and Technology is an experienced team of software professionals with a wide range of specialties and interests. We are building cognitive-computing based technology solutions to help organizations worldwide prevent compliance breaches, respond to risk, remediate major issues and monitor ongoing business activities.

This is a full-time opportunity 100% Remote. This position is remote eligible within the United States, excluding residents of California, Colorado, and New York. Candidates must be Clearable for secret/top secret US government clearance. 

We are looking for a talented Linux Infrastructure Engineer to join our EFS Ops team. We are building out environments that will pass government certification. You will be working with a growing team of developers, data scientists and QA engineers on maintaining our existing services and infrastructure, while building the next generation of our engineering stack.

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy, improve, and maintain highly available systems and services on both traditional servers and cloud infrastructure services. (AWS GovCloud, IBM Cloud)
• Maintain and build systems following infrastructure-as-code principles. Tools we use include Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Nexus, Git.
• Get involved in projects, learn and suggest new solutions, and be challenged to find creative new solutions or build your own.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, including off-hours and holidays. We focus on continuous improvement and fixing the root cause of issues.
• Set, maintain and raise a level of technical excellence within the team and across the other engineering teams.

Knowledge and Skills

• Very comfortable with all aspects of running applications and infrastructure services on Linux servers and containers (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RHEL).
• Solid understanding of network architecture and security in a cloud environment (VPCs, subnets, security groups, firewalls).
• Experience managing and configuring SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis) and clusters (tuning, backups, replication).
• Some proficiency with designing and troubleshooting scalable web services and applications, message queues (ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka), proxies and load-balancers (Nginx).
• Write clean, modular and maintainable code in a scripting language (Shell, Python) and configuration language (Terraform, Ansible).
• Familiarity with container schedulers (Kubernetes) and related security best practices.
• Follow infrastructure as code principles and automate all stages of the application lifecycle.
• Ensure that all infrastructure, services and applications have comprehensive monitoring, metrics and log collection (ELK, Prometheus).
• Understanding of disaster recovery strategies including multi-region deployments, RTO, RPO.