Senior DevOps Engineer, Engineering Effectiveness

The name ThousandEyes was born from two big ideas: the power to see what’s not ordinarily possible, and the ability to collect intelligence from vantage points as diverse and global as the Internet. As organizations depend on cloud services, the Internet has become their defacto network connecting cloud applications to users. Our Internet and cloud intelligence platform is like a ‘Google maps of the Internet’, providing the only collectively powered view of digital experiences end-to-end. We enable our customers made up of the world’s largest and fastest-growing brands, to identify problems before they impact revenue, brand reputation, or employee productivity.

In August 2020, Cisco Systems completed the acquisition of ThousandEyes, which now forms the ThousandEyes Business Unit within Cisco’s Network Services Business Group, and is a foundational component of Cisco’s growing Observability business.

The Engineering Effectiveness team is a team at ThousandEyes with the mission to empower our engineers to be more effective and happier by providing the tools, processes, infrastructure, and support they need to design, implement, test, and operationalize their code quickly and with high quality.

As a DevOps Engineer on this team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the other Engineering teams to provide a productive and frictionless end-to-end developer experience encompassing the entire development, release, and operating lifecycle.

• Engaging directly with all groups within the Engineering organization and acting as their point of contact for all of the systems and tools we manage;
• Collaborating with a team’s engineers to optimize their build performance;
• Implementing our strategy for managing Kubernetes manifests;
• Improving the usability and standards provided through our custom Gradle plugins;
• Designing the deployment approach for a new service;
• Building a tool to transform Kubernetes manifests from one type to another;
• Creating self-service frameworks to enable automated testing and application rollout to allow fast and reliable code validation;
• Bringing your full SDLC experience to help improve our overall engineering processes, testing approaches, deployment pipelines, and operational procedures.

We are passionate about optimizing our end-to-end engineering experience to foster the innovation that allows our company to succeed.

• Passion for development and engineering best practices, automation, and productivity
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Expert in build and release pipelines and related tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Weaveworks, Prow)
• Expert with cloud computing platforms (AWS, GCP)
• Experience with Kubernetes and managed Kubernetes platforms (e.g., EKS, GKE)
• Proficiency in at least one of our primary programming languages (Java, Go, Javascript/TypeScript)
• Proficiency with various build systems (e.g., Gradle, Make)
• Proficiency with automated testing tools and frameworks (e.g., TestCafe, Selenium, JMeter, Robot, Spring Testing Framework)

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Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

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