Senior DevOps Engineer

About the position

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be part of the Infrastructure Team, which is responsible for the day-to-day operation for all of Boats Group. As a Team, we support the infrastructure for hosted software for end-users, clients, and internal software. As such we support software development, deployment and hosting inside our AWS environment. You will work closely with the Software Development, Business Intelligence, Customization, and AdOps Teams in supporting a varied mix of Java, PHP, Scala, Perl and Node.JS applications. You'll be responsible with helping to assess our current development and deployment processes, designing and documenting a migration plan to a more native AWS solution, and then helping the team successfully implement it. We would like the role to become a key voice on our Architecture Committee. A successful candidate should be a seasoned developer who understands AWS inside and out and how to build robust, secure and efficient environments. You need to be knowledgeable across a wide variety of technologies, front-end, back-end and all sorts of middleware. Every day is something new and complex, you won't be bored! This role is to be based out of our Miami office and candidates located in this area will be considered first Please do not apply if you are not located in the Miami area or do not plan to be located in the Miami area.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the smooth operation of our AWS infrastructure
• Participate in our coverage for outages
• Continuously monitor and improve our overall performance, monitoring, and security
• Assist in the maintenance and improvement of our deployment pipelines
• Assist developers with access and deployment issues as required
• Monitor, maintain and improve high-performance websites
• Create tools to automate all the things
• Monitor and help control AWS infrastructure spending

Requirements

• Considerable experience in Infrastructure or Dev support role
• Experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 300+ instance AWS/Cloud environment
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Current with DevOps best practices, including security, monitoring and notifications
• Deep familiarity with the AWS CLI

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in automated configuration and IaC tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• Scripting and programming languages like Python, Groovy, or bash
• CI/CD with Jenkins, pipeline and libraries, and git
• Queuing systems such as RabbitMQ, or AWS SQS
• Databases (AWS RDS Aurora, MySQL, DynamoDB, DocumentDB) and SQL
• Prior experience as a developer

Benefits

• Shiny new Apple Macbook + large second monitor + other office accessories
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life insurance
• 401(k) with 4% matching
• 15 days of PTO per year (Total PTO bank is granted on day 1 of employment, not accrued over time.)
• Holiday break from December 26th-31st
• Birthday PTO (You never have to work on your birthday!)
• All Federal holidays off & paid
• 32 hours of volunteer time paid per year
• Professional reimbursement program for employees to take courses, attend seminars, etc.
• Short term & Long term disability after 1 year of employment