Devops Engineer II

Job Description:

As a DevOps Engineer II for PAR, you will be working with our developers, SRE, and DevOps teams to implement our next-generation infrastructure. 

We are seeking a highly skilled  DevOps Engineer with a background in DevOps practices, Kubernetes, and AWS. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and container orchestration.

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  Responsibilities:
  •      Work closely with the Development team to implement the continuous integration and continuous deployment needs based on the requirements.
  •      Deliver SLA and business objectives through the whole lifecycle design of services from inception to implementation.
  •      Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems
  •      Scale our systems and services through continuous integration, infrastructure as code, and gradual refactoring in an agile environment.
  •      Maintain services once a project is live by monitoring and measuring availability, latency, and overall system and application health.
  •      Write and maintain software that runs the infrastructure that powers the Loyalty and Data platform for some of the world’s largest brands.
  •      Respond to incidents and write blameless RCA’s/post-mortems
  •      Implement and practice proper security controls and processes
  •      Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
  •      Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on the platform.
  Must have:
  •      Minimum 3 years of experience in DevOps.
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  •      Strong interpersonal skills.
  •      Must have experience in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, CloudBees, etc.
  •      Must have experience in Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, or equivalent container technologies.
  •      Experience in the creation of highly automated infrastructures with any Configuration Management tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
  •      In-depth knowledge of the Linux operating system and administration.
  •      Production experience with a major cloud provider such as Amazon AWS.
  •      Knowledge of web server technologies such as Nginx or Apache.
  •      Knowledge of Redis, Memcache, or one of the many in-memory data stores.
  •      Experience with various load-balancing technologies such as Amazon ALB/ELB, HA Proxy, and F5.
  •      Comfortable with large-scale, highly-available distributed systems.

Good to have:
•      Understanding of Web Standards (REST, SOAP APIs, OWASP, HTTP, TLS)
•      Experience in Kafka, RabbitMQ, or any messaging bus.
•      Production experience with Hashicorp products such as Vault or Consul
•      Expertise in designing, analyzing troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
•      Experience in a PCI environment
•      Experience maintaining and scaling database applications
•      Knowledge of fundamental systems engineering principles
•      Understanding of the network fundamentals: OSI, TCI/IP, topologies, etc.
•      Understanding of Auditing of Infrastructure and helping PAR to control Infrastructure costs.
•      Shell scripting