DevOps Engineer

Company: EDGE10 Group
Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: February 24, 2021

Job Description:

EDGE10 Group's goal is to help people perform at the very edge of human ability. We provide advanced sports medicine and sports science solutions to the world's top sports teams and leagues, giving them actionable insights for faster and higher-quality decision-making. We work with hundreds of teams around the world including the NBA, MLB, and NHL in North America.

The EDGE10 technology organization is growing rapidly and is looking for a DevOps Engineer who is passionate about creating DevOps environments and delivering a productive, efficient, safe and consistent user experience for development staff, and wants to help us realize and build on the next stage in our product and technology journey. You will need to have a strong understanding of DevOps infrastructure and technologies within a Microsoft Azure cloud environment, Microsoft Windows-based systems setup, configuration and administration as well as network setup/configuration. You will have the ability to design, develop, build, manage and evolve secure DevOps environments for rapid high-quality product development that will help enable EDGE10's unique product innovation roadmap and its ambitious growth plans.

What You Will Do

• Design, implement, support and evolve DevOps-enabled environments with high performance build pipelines, reliable deployment processes, high levels of testability, comprehensive logging and granular observability
• Provide high quality, "low friction" and consistent user experiences for developers, testers and other key staff
• Work closely with software engineers and other technical staff to deliver new and enhanced products with a fast-paced DevOps mindset
• Nurture good working relationships across the engineering organization and with external partners
• Enable improved reliability, scalability and performance through effective automation
• Monitor, enhance and troubleshoot the development and test environments with attention to increasingly automated and granular monitoring, smart alerting, speedier resolution and continual improvement of availability, performance and resilience
• Create easy to understand and use documentation
• The technologies you will work with include public and private clouds, based largely on Azure, Windows Server, and SQL Server
• You will contribute to the identification, understanding, evaluation and selection of new and emerging DevOps tools, technologies, practices and techniques that are aligned to the group's technology principles
  
  Requirements
  
  You should have
  
  • Solid and practical understanding of infrastructure-as-code principles
  • Extensive professional experience within the systems engineering and DevOps domains
  • Deep knowledge of modern cloud technologies, especially within Microsoft Azure environments
  • Experience with modern distributed infrastructures (public, private and mixed cloud environments) and tech stacks
  • Strong experience working with the Microsoft Azure public cloud
  • Experience and solid understanding of Continuous Integration
  • Extensive knowledge and experience with containerization tools e.g. Docker, Mesos, Azure Container Instances
  • Hands-on familiarity with container orchestration tools e.g. Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service, Docker Platform
  • Grounding in and experience with
    
    • Microsoft Windows operating system
    • Microsoft SQL Server database management system
    • Configuration automation tools e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
    • Practical understanding of network communication and network setup
    • Obsessive focus on end-to-end scripting and automation to avoid all repetitive tasks
    • Passion for structured working, attention to detail and documenting things well
    • Thirst for staying up to date on the latest and emerging infrastructure, tools, products, patches and broader industry technologies, tools and techniques, particularly within the Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Azure ecosystems
    • Good collaboration and communication skills
    • Experience working in a fast-paced delivery focused environment
    • Experience in supporting agile working environments that use scrum / lean work practices
    • Fluency in English (spoken and written)
      Great if you have
      
      • Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline
      • Good experience with configuration automation tools
      • Experience with Continuous Delivery
      • Relevant Microsoft Azure certification is a plus
      • Experience with programming languages (e.g. C#, JavaScript, React, Kotlin)
      • Knowledge of CouchDB
      • Ability to read and understand developer code is an advantage
      • Familiar with application, platform and infrastructure monitoring tools
      • Good knowledge of sports (and related terminology) particularly American football, baseball, basketball, soccer and tennis
      • Bilingual in French and English
        
        Benefits
        
        We offer a competitive salary package and a flexible working environment. Our development team really care about the code they produce so there's plenty opportunity to introduce new ideas. Every member of the team gets recognized for great work and we encourage all of our developers to improve themselves both technically and by expanding their role at the company.
        
        This position has the opportunity to be fully remote.

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