Job Description :
Software Resources has an immediate job opportunity for a DevOps Engineer in Seattle, WA.
Duration: 6 month(s)
Description/Comment:Job Description
Our company has a mission to bring compelling content to customers anytime and anywhere; data has and will continue to play an incredibly important role in our mission. The Data Engineering Team, a part of the Consumer Data & Analytics group, is responsible for innovating, developing, and evangelizing cutting-edge data products and solutions to support our mission.
The Data Engineering Team has a lot of data and even more talent. We are looking for a creative, collaborative, and results-driven Data and Analytics DevOps Engineer to help on the Data Engineering Operations team. The Data Engineering Operations team has a mission to provide responsive, innovative, and creative extension, support, development, and maintenance on our data platforms, tools, and products. This is a great opportunity for a talented and creative person who is passionate about data and DevOps to join a great company competing in the next generation of media, entertainment, and technology.
If you love the cloud and automating things, then this is the job for you!
Responsibilities
Proactively work with the Data Engineering Operations & Sustainment team through strategic thinking, innovative design, agile planning, and creative implementations
Help develop Continuous Integration / Delivery processes of our new data platform
Actively participate in systems analysis, performance tuning, unit testing, production support and resolution analysis
Perform root cause analysis to determine the cause of software defects, downtime, production issues, and other performance or experience-impacting issues
Design and participate in the implementation of the tools, scripts, products, and platforms needed to maintain a high-availability, intuitive, accessible, and robust data platform
Collaborate, advocate, and adopt new concepts, ideas, techniques, guidelines, and best practices
Rigorously investigate defects, downtime, bugs, issues; assist a team on mitigating and remediating them based on investigation, planning, and coordination with all impacted teams
Innovate, develop, and deploy smarter, faster, and more efficient ways of doing things
Be an advocate for, and a governor of, existing standards within the development and sustainment frameworks and assist in the development of new standards where they are absent
Provision, configure and deploy new infrastructure and services
Design, manage, and maintain tools to automate operational processes
Contribute to making our infrastructure simple, reliable, and easy to operate
Maintain and enhance monitoring and alerting
If you are wondering whether you are a fit for this role, ask yourself these questions. If you answer yes, we hope to hear from you soon.
Do you enjoy roles where you get to combine your passions for software development and automation in order to help lead teams to maintain the highly available, efficient, and robust platforms?
Are you highly collaborative and enjoy working on teams that solve challenging problems by working together?
Is the thought of competing toe-to-toe with cutting-edge media and technology companies through the use of data and information exciting?
Basic Qualifications Basic Qualifications
We are continually pushing the envelope on new ideas, confronting new challenges, and moving quickly to empower our company with data. To meet the challenges of our mission, you will need the following basic qualifications for this role.
Technical
Hands-on experience with automation, build, testing, and deployment tools such as Ansible, Chef, Saltstack or Puppet
Experience with deployment and management of systems in AWS including VPC, EBS, EC2, and Cloud Formation
Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) tools just as Jenkins
Experience with git source control
Solid Networking and Linux fundamentals
Experience using scripting languages, such as Python, Ruby, or Perl, to manipulate data, develop tools and automate processes.
Experience with very large databases (VLDB) with complex data sets in relational databases such Redshift and Azure Data Warehouse
Knowledge of Extract Transform and Load (ETL) development process
Basic SQL experience to help trouble shoot issues and diagnose problems.
SQL tuning experience and understanding of database optimizer plans
Expertise in distributed systems such as Hadoop, scalability, availability, and/or application development frameworks
Familiar with challenges of large data sets and systems
Practice working in an agile software development lifecycle environment
Hands-on involvement analyzing and modeling complex data sets
Non-Technical
Demonstrated sound analytical and diagnostic skills navigating issues that are not readily defined or conflict with available information
Aptitude in balancing time-to-market with sustainable and re-usable architectures
Proven ability to identify opportunities and implement solutions for improving automation, build, deployment, and sustainment tasks
Works well on teams employing software development lifecycle (SDLC) patterns and practices with agile/scrum experience preferred
Ability to navigate, understand, and organize ambiguous business problems in order to recommend concrete technology solutions
Emphasis on communication and customer service, customer usage and ROI analysis
Brings intellectual curiosity and creativeness to work everyday
Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively based on the audience
Desire to work in a highly collaborative environment
Demonstrated ability to deliver on commitments to themselves, the team, and their customers
Comfortable pushing for more information or detail when prudent
Preferred Qualifications Preferred Qualifications
If you do not have these skills don''t worry because they are not required. If you do have any of these skills, make sure to let us know.
Hands-on experience with some of our major tools including AWS
Knowledge of distributed computing tools including Amazon Redshift
Programming and/or scripting language experience
Previous experience as a DBA
You have previously worked in the media or entertainment space
B. S. or M. S. in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or a field related to technology.
Required Education B. S. or M. S. in Computer Science
Don''t delay. Join the Software Resources team today!
Software Resources specializes in connecting talented IT professionals with challenging job opportunities that transform jobs into careers.
To meet our clients hiring needs, we continuously source talented IT Professionals with all levels of expertise and in all disciplines. We offer world class major medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) with match, short term disability, Life Insurance and AD&D. You, our future employees, can make a tremendous difference to our company and our clients. Please apply to this job and experience the Software Resources difference. You can view all of our jobs at http://www. softwareresources. com/it-careers/it-job-search/
Company Overview
Software Resources specializes in IT talent recruitment services and workforce staffing solutions. Founded in 1992 as an IT staffing services firm, we are a privately held women-owned business enterprise (WBE), celebrating our 25th year in business. We are headquartered in Lake Mary, Florida, just outside of Orlando. With branches and sales professionals throughout the U. S. , Software Resources is the staffing agency of choice for clients and consultants.
We specialize in IT. It''s what we do and what we know, every day. We provide contract, contract to hire and direct hire placement IT staffing solutions for Energy, Entertainment/Gaming/New Media, Financial Services, Government, Healthcare, Hospitality, Professional Services, and Security.