DevOps Automation Engineer G6069
Pleasanton, California
Nisum US – Enterprise Application Services /
Full Time /
Remote
Nisum is a leading global digital commerce firm headquartered in California, with services spanning digital strategy and transformation, insights and analytics, blockchain, business agility, and custom software development. Founded in 2000 with the customer-centric motto “Building Success Together®,” Nisum has grown to over 1,800 professionals across the United States, Chile,Colombia, India, Pakistan and Canada. A preferred advisor to leading Fortune 500 brands, Nisum enables clients to achieve direct business growth by building the advanced technology they need to reach end customers in today’s world, with immersive and seamless experiences across digital and physical channels.
What You'll Do
- Provides strategic direction and executes on infrastructure, security, continuous integration, deployment, and IT operations practices, scaling, and metrics.
- Runs day-to-day operations of production and development infrastructure for a cloud-based commerce platform.
- Develops an innovative approach to simplify and streamline processes to increase system scalability and reliability, improve efficiency, and minimize errors.
- Works with the Development and QA teams to provide continuous improvement of existing features and rollout of new services, ensuring high availability of our platform.
What You Know
- Applicants should possess a solid 8-year tenure in the relevant field.
- Strong in Linux and Windows.
- Experience supporting web applications (Ruby and Java-based preferred).
- Scripting (Ruby, Perl, Python, Bash, Awk, PHP).
- Elastic Cloud / Virtualization (ESXi, EC2, Rackspace Cloud, Hypervisor, KVM, Xen, VDI).
- Build Automation (Jenkins, Hudson, Cruisecontrol, Electric Commander).
- Systems automation and provisioning frameworks (Chef, Puppet, Cfengine, Babushka, Knife, Mcollective, Func, Kickstart, PXE).
- Large Scale Databases (MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, HBase, Cassandra, Hadoop).
- Test Driven Development (junit/phpunit/RSpec/Cucumber). Middleware (MQ).
- Caching strategy (CDN, Varnish, Memcached, Redis).
- Familiar with high availability strategies (haproxy, Global Traffic Management / Multiple Datacenters, GeoDNS, failable architecture).
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) support.
- Monitoring systems and frameworks (Nagios, Ganglia, CollectD, Graphite). Performance testing and analysis.
- Package management workflows (Aptitude/dpkg, Yum/RPM).
- Single Sign On Technologies (LDAP, Kerberos, OpenDirectory, PAM).
- Common Unix Systems Services (NFS, NTP, Apache, nginx).
- Security frameworks (IPTables, Nessus, nmap). F5 BIG-IP, Vipirion.
- Able to work in an Agile environment.
- Critical thinker with a research-oriented problem-solving approach.
- REST APIs using XML and JSON.
- IBM 4690 OS. Familiar with high availability strategies (haproxy, Global Traffic Management / Multiple Datacenters, GeoDNS, failable architecture).
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Applications, or a related field
Benefits
- In addition to competitive salaries and benefits packages, Nisum US offers its employees some unique and fun extras:
- Professional Development - We offer in-house technical training and professional learning programs aimed at developing skills across a broad spectrum of topics such as technology, leadership, role-based training, and process expertise. We also offer an annual stipend for employees to attend external courses in order to maintain professional certifications
- Health & Wellness Benefits - We believe that your health and welfare are important, and we strive to ensure that you have affordable options available to you, including some plans that are subsidized for employees and their families up to 90%. We also have dental and vision plans in the US where Nisum pays 100% of premiums for employees
- Volunteerism Pay - We believe in giving back and in the US, our employees are eligible for up to 40 hours of paid time off each year to volunteer towards the causes that they are most passionate about. This is in addition to personal PTO and paid holidays
- Additional Benefits - We offer all the other important benefits to keep employees and their families healthy and financially secure, such as 401(k) retirement savings with a company match, pre-tax parking and transit programs, disability insurance, and Basic Life/AD&D, alongside exclusive employee discounts on a wide variety of products and services
Compensation Band
- $135-140k per year
Nisum is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
