DevOps Engineer

Company: FinOps Foundation
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: January 26, 2025

Job Description:

At Appspace, we're passionate about creating better work experiences for people everywhere, and we're looking for people that feel the same way. Our global office locations and flexible work culture help you work wherever and however you're at your best. Plus, we take the time to help you enjoy your work, build lasting connections, and grow your role. Join the Appspace team and be a part of a culture that's helping people everywhere love where they work.Your Role as a DevOps Engineer:Our DevOps team seeks a passionate DevOps Engineer who is eager to learn both Appspace's Cloud Platform and supporting toolsets to meet and exceed the needs of our Customers, Engineering, and Customer Care teams. The ideal candidate will be capable of resolving issues and servicing requests while proactively seeking opportunities for automation. This role requires an understanding of DevOps best practices, experience automating infrastructure deployments, systems administration, high availability, and web technologies. You will work closely with a global team of cloud, product, and service professionals to improve our platform's resiliency and velocity to scale, enhancing our customers' experience with Appspace.Upon joining, you will work with our teams to get up to speed on our architecture, systems, and practices by shadowing our DevOps Engineers. As your knowledge and experience grow, you'll participate in maintaining and improving our Cloud Platform and DevOps infrastructure. You may occasionally assist with advanced internal IT needs. The ideal candidate will focus on DevOps engineering duties while considering customer experience, platform availability, and scalability.A Day in the Life of a DevOps Engineer:In this role, you will install, configure, and maintain multiple compute and container instances running various software/service deployments. You will monitor system performance and ticket queues to analyze and resolve problems before they impact our applications. Compliance with security standards will be critical. You will assist the team with building, testing, integrating, and deploying software across multiple networks using DevOps and continuous delivery best practices. Successful automation of deployments and processes using languages such as Python is also important.Daily activities will include:

• Working closely with development teams and the QA department to contribute to the identification, assessment, and integration of technologies across our global infrastructure.
• Maintaining the daily health of development, staging, and production systems, including associated databases.
• Troubleshooting systems and software issues, identifying root causes, and implementing solutions across environments.
• Maintaining and utilizing build and deployment automation infrastructure.
• Documenting processes and protocols as they evolve.What You'll Need:
  • Ability to learn and understand new technologies quickly.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Strong background in Linux; experience with Windows systems administration is preferred.
  • Experience with automation, configuration management, and Infrastructure as Code (HashiCorp preferred).
  • Experience with popular scripting languages such as Python, Powershell, NodeJS, and/or Bash.
  • Solid troubleshooting experience.
  • Experience with MySQL & MongoDB.
  • Experience with message brokering systems, preferably RabbitMQ.
  • Experience implementing Microservices and familiarity with Kubernetes or another container orchestrator.
  • Flexibility to attend remote "off-hour" meetings.Desirable Skills and Experience:
    • Experience with Build pipeline tools and the Atlassian suite (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket/Git, Bamboo, Octopus).
    • Experience with monitoring and alerting platforms, especially StackDriver.
    • Desire to improve scripting/programming skills.
    • Experience with cloud providers such as Google Cloud Platform and AWS.
    • A lifelong learner who enjoys gaining an expert-level understanding in new systems and technologies.The Perks of Working for Appspace:For all our AUS based team members, we offer a variety of benefits including competitive salaries, employer paid medical, dental and vision coverage, disability coverage, life insurance, mental health resources, and a superannuation plan.Additional perks include:
      • Generous PTO
      • Personal/Carer's leave
      • Remote work opportunities
      • Paid company holidays
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