The Role:
Developer Operations (DevOps) at RippleNet is responsible for communication, collaboration and integration between the Development and Operations teams so infrastructures, tools and processes are streamlined and effective for faster and automated delivery of product.
The Engineering Manager, DevOps will help lead the discovery, design and implementation of solutions to improve RippleNet infrastructure and release pipelines. These solutions, spanning all engineering teams, the entire tech stack and all of our infrastructure and tools; will include, but not limited to, developer infrastructure, build and test frameworks, CI/CD infrastructure and release process automation. As Engineering Manager, you will have the opportunity to develop and grow the team while also being results-oriented in leading the team to achieve goals. Candidates should enjoy working openly and collaboratively with a diverse team. It will also be important for this person to champion engineering best practices and help build a team which is open, collaborative and high performing.
What you’ll do:
- Interface with senior management, engineering peers and infra teams in driving strategic planning and execution of resilience and performance programs
- Help design and develop tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to increase engineering efficiency and to improve customer experience.
- Lead discovery of next generation tools and work with wider peer teams on implementation, adoption and continuous improvements
- Create and automate new and existing platform and application lifecycle services, leveraging data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction
- Act as subject matter expert, providing technical leadership and sharing your expertise with a growing team of engineers
- Raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing and driving best practices for coding, testing, and deployment
What we are looking for:
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- 8+ years of hands-on experience on large scale distributed systems, with the last 4-6+ years in Java, Python, or Go; and 2+ years experience managing a team.
- 2+ years of experience in designing and operating large scale, multi-region service platforms
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes and experience working with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS.
- Experience with at least one configuration management tool such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible
- Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker, Rkt, or OCI running on Kubernetes, Rancher, or Mesos
- Experience building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, etc)
- Experience with real-time telemetry and tracing tools like Jager and Prometheus
- Preferred, experience working with AWS CLI, IAM, ECR, ECS, EC2, S3/EBS/EFS, Security Groups, VPC's, RDS/Aurora, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFront, Cognito
- Security awareness, with an emphasis on designing for security best practices
- Experience with Agile development of distributed services, with a focus on robust software design, scalability and securityA positive attitude and a passion for sharing knowledge
- BS in Computer Science or similar field