Cloud Platform Engineer (Remote in Utah)

About the Role

You’ll bring to the role a passion for building secure, robust, and high performance distributed systems. The ideal candidate will be a top-notch Linux expert with a devops focus and experience in fast-paced, dynamic environments. In addition to participating in the ongoing evolution of our server and network environments, you will be part of our Tier 1 site support staff. 

Responsibilities

• Participate in the adoption of public cloud technologies, optimizing our architecture and practices to make best use of cloud technologies and patterns 
• Participate in evolving our build, deployment, and release management practices towards a continuous integration/continuous deployment model
• Work closely with development teams ensuring collaboration within technology team in supporting and improving CI/CD
• Collaborate with the product development team to continuously improve customer experience through increases in performance and reliability
• Thoroughly understand the performance of our customer-facing site through monitoring and data-driven analysis
• Apply infrastructure-as-code patterns to increase the reliability and predictability of our services
• Architect infrastructure and application monitoring and log analysis frameworks to provide deep visibility into our Java-based application stack
• Part of the distributed on-call team responsible for the health of a 24/7 production hosted environment
• Systems automation to enhance developer productivity
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our development, test and production environments.
• Advise the product development team on architectural choices as a technical advocate for excellent customer experience

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience
• Computer science degree or related technical experience preferred
• Ability to automate system configuration and management using scripts (shell, ruby, python, etc.) and configuration management tools (preferably terraform and/or chef)
• Experience with public cloud technologies (preferably GCP)
• RedHat Linux/CentOS administration and management

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with managing highly available production-facing e-commerce web sites
• Experience with release management
• Experience with build automation (jenkins, go, cruisecontrol, etc.)
• Ability to diagnose and manage Java applications and JVMs
• Knowledge of monitoring systems and frameworks (nagios, sensu, graphite, etc.)
• Understanding of virtualization and containers
• Experience with system and network security (IPS/IDS, firewalls, user management)

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive health plans (including Medical, Dental and Vision insurance for full-time employees)
• Unlimited PTO
• Competitive salary packages
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Supplemental Optional Life Insurance Benefits
• FSA Options Optional
• HSA with Company Match
• 401k program with Company Match
• Fertility Assistance and Planning options
• Wellhub & ClassPass fitness platforms
• Comprehensive Pet Insurance options
• Financial Wellbeing & Student Loan Program access
• Access to additional Mental Health & Wellbeing resources
• Pre-tax Commuter/Transit Benefits
• Free Rocket Lawyer account with online access to an extensive legal documents library and brilliant licensed attorneys at discounted rates