Senior DevOps Engineer

At Workrise, we believe it’s more than just a job, we invest in our people & encourage you to choose the path for your career. It’s truly about you, your future & where you want to go.

The Engineering team at Workrise leverages a variety of tools to enable and sustain a scalable and highly-resilient platform for delivering customer value. We are organized into agile, cross-functional product line teams consisting of engineering, product and design which allows us to develop deep expertise and rapidly deliver high-value features and functionality.

We are looking for a Cloud Engineer to help us build the next evolution of the Workrise cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, Terraform), developer tooling (CI/CD, CircleCI) and application infrastructure (Kubernetes, Istio Service Mesh) and monitoring (Open Telemetry, Grafana, Prometheus).

Responsibilities will include: 

• Maintaining and improving a Kubernetes based microservice ecosystem that empowers our application teams to rapidly and securely deliver value
• Designing and developing DevOps/SRE processes and tools to automate and audit application service operations
• Implementing easy to use tooling to provide platform level resources to application teams as a source of best practice standards
• Collaborate with our application teams to understand their pain points and ensure their success
• Championing continuous improvement of our methods to deploy & support our cloud architecture
• Managing projects through completion
• Mentoring devops engineers across the organization, providing guidance and support with a sense of stewardship for their growth
• Influencing the wider engineering team through demos, brown bag topics, and design proposals
• Handling on-call rotation ensuring high uptime and resiliency for our customers and development teams

Minimum Requirements:

• 4+ years supporting a high availability cloud environment in a DevOps or SRE role
• 6+ years of relevant DevOps/SRE experience 
• Experience provisioning, deploying, and supporting containers with Helm / Kustomize, Kubernetes, and Docker
• Deploying and supporting end-to-end CI/CD (Git, CircleCI, etc.)
• Hands-on monitoring tool usage (Stackdriver, Grafana, Prometheus)
• Experience with infrastructure as code technologies for cloud resources, preferably Terraform
• Experience with one or more cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• BS degree or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Requirements: 

• You have worked on teams that build tools for developers 
• You have a background or certifications in cloud security 
• Experience with pub/sub messaging technology like Kafka (or equivalent)
• Extensive networking skills (VPC, VPN, TCP/IP, routing, load balancing, DNS)
• Experience configuring and maintaining a Kubernetes service mesh (Istio)
• Experience with remote collaboration with teams in different time zones