Senior DevOps Engineer

Why Ryan?

• Hybrid Work Options

• Award-Winning Culture

• Generous Personal Time Off (PTO) Benefits

• 14-Weeks of 100% Paid Leave for New Parents (Adoption Included)

• Monthly Gym Membership Reimbursement OR Gym Equipment Reimbursement

• Benefits Eligibility Effective Day One

• 401K with Employer Match

• Tuition Reimbursement After One Year of Service

• Fertility Assistance Program

• Four-Week Company-Paid Sabbatical Eligibility After Five Years of Service

As a member of the Ryan Application Development Team, this position will be a critical contributor to an ambitious strategic initiative with the goal of re-envisioning a broad suite of enterprise level applications. Aiming to create simple and compelling developer and client experiences, the Senior DevOps Engineer will be required to design, maintain, and manage infrastructure configuration with the goal of achieving a continuous deployable system while maintaining an exceptional level of service delivery for all our clients. We are looking for someone that will grow the DevOps practice by building scalable and efficient cloud infrastructure with built-in monitoring for automated system health checks. Candidates will be required to interface directly with technical leads, software architects, other business groups, and key stakeholders demanding exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
The Ryan Application Development Team promotes an open-minded atmosphere of learning and growth and expects the same from candidates. We want to foster a positive and enthusiastic can-do attitude with our work. Candidates should have a sense of where things are going and have experience using best of breed tools, technologies, and practices. This role is a formative one for the future of application development within Ryan, LLC and will be best filled by candidates hungry to have a huge impact.

Responsibilities:

• Work with TPO Development team to create and implement solutions on the Cloudera platform based on provided requirements.
• Work closely with Cloudera’s teams at all levels to help ensure TPO’s needs are met.
• Analyze complex distributed production deployments and make recommendations to optimize performance.
• Help design and implement Big Data architectures and configurations.
• Write and produce technical and supporting documentation, knowledge base articles.

Desired Skills:

• Experience working with Cloudera Data Platform (CDP).
• Good understanding of AWS.
• Containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience designing and deploying production large-scale Hadoop solutions.
• Ability to understand and translate customer requirements into technical requirements.
• Experience designing data queries in a Hadoop environment using tools such as Apache Hive, Apache Phoenix, Apache Spark or others.
• Experience installing and administering multi-node Hadoop clusters.
• Strong experience implementing solutions in an Enterprise Linux or Unix environment.
• Good understanding of network configuration, devices, protocols, speeds and optimizations.
• Knowledge of programming and scripting languages.
• Strong understanding with using network-based APIs, preferably REST/JSON or XML/SOAP.
• Experience implementing big data use-cases, understanding of standard design patterns commonly used in Hadoop-based deployments.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent related work experience. Six or more years of practical applications development experience in a DevOps or System Engineer capacity.

Certificates and Licenses:

Valid driver’s license required. 

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment:

• Standard indoor working environment.
• Occasional long periods of sitting while working at computer.

• Position requires regular interaction with employees at all levels of the firm as well as interaction with external vendors and clients as necessary.

• Independent travel requirement: up to 10%.

  Equal Opportunity Employer: disability/veteran

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Compensation:

• For certain California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $136,500 - $161,500
• For other California-based locations, the base salary hiring range for this position is $125,500 - $148,500
• For Colorado-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $120,000 - $142,000
• For New York-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $136,500 - $161,500
• For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $125,500 - $148,500
• The Company makes offers based on many factors, including qualifications and experience.