Senior DevOps/Systems Engineer - AXS Group LLC

We’re currently seeking a highly technical Senior Systems Engineer to join our AXS DevOps team. In this role, you’ll be working closely with the Product Development team to build, deploy, and support custom sites and services. You’ll be responsible for tier-II/III support and escalation of a highly-available Production environment, as well as provide technical leadership. 

What you’ll be doing… 

• Work closely with the Product Development team to build, deploy, and support custom sites and services.
• Maintain an expert level of knowledge of Linux server operating systems.
• Experience with Redis and PostgreSQL clustered database systems.
• Knowledge of hosting applications such as Node.js and PHP using nginx, and passenger.
• Experience with Configuration Management and CI/CD tools such as Puppet, Chef, Rundeck, Jenkins, TeamCity or Octopus Deploy.
• Proficient in designing and deploying environments in Amazon Web Services, with hands-on experience of VPCs, EC2, RDS, S3, ElastiCache, and Route 53.
• Provide tier-II/III support and escalation of a 24x7x365 Production environment, which includes an on-call rotation that is responsible for addressing issues on all critical systems during extended coverage periods.
• Act as a technical escalation point for System Administrators and Engineers.
• Automate tasks and processes with scripts and third-party tools.
• Develop and maintain the security standards.
• Coordinate and implement key infrastructure technologies and system management tools, monitoring tools, databases, web services, and integration tools.
• Support, maintain, and improve systems documentation, policies and procedures.
• Manage the scheduling and implementation of upgrades, modifications, and installations on systems.
• Assist in training and maintaining core support skills, developing new skills as required.
• Manage the evaluation and implementation of any application necessary for the Operations team to complete the day-to-day management of enterprise systems and applications.
• Evaluate, recommend, and implement new technologies. 

Skills and experience we’re seeking… 

• BS and 5 years of DevOps or System Engineering experience.
• Expert level of knowledge in Linux Server Operating Systems (CentOS)
• Proficiency with the following skillsets are highly desirable: haproxy, consul, graphite and grafana.
• Experience or knowledge of technologies such as Docker, Terraform, Cloud Formation
• Proficiency with the following skillsets are desirable: basic knowledge of communications and network equipment (eg. router, switches), network protocols and load balancers (eg. F5, AWS ELB/ALB/NLB, haproxy, nginx).

And you’ll really get our attention if you have… 

• Familiarity with Help Desk software, email, maintaining SLAs, Identity Management / account provisioning, and project management /scheduling skills.
• AWS Certifications.
• Leadership skills/experience.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence.
• Strong deployment, CI/CD and configuration management experience specifically with TeamCity and Octopus.