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Original Job Post

KWI · 4 days ago

Lead DevOps Engineer

Melville, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$158K/yr - $178K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Act as the main point of contact for support infrastructure, and lead and mentor department team members

Architect, implement and support infrastructure as code solutions that host the KWI suite of cloud-hosted products

Ensure stability of all services by monitoring for trends of issues, performance metrics and capacity

Provide in-depth diagnosis for system/software failures and develop/implement preventative solutions as needed

Create processes that provide clarity around daily operations and cross department communications.

Document and implement configuration standards for utilization and manageability of data-center systems

Collaborate with Technology team regarding availability of the infrastructure, and technical considerations for planning and managing upgrades and enhancements

Qualification

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OLTPLinuxSaaS EnvironmentMonitoring ToolsInfrastructure AutomationIaC ToolsConsulVaultKubernetesLoad BalancersSolarisWindowsRouting ProtocolsStorage PlatformsMySQLJavaActive DirectoryDatacenter NetworkNetworking ProtocolsRelational DatabasesNoSQL-Memory DatabasesFirewallsProblem-SolvingHard WorkingHands-On LeadershipRoot Cause MentalityBias to ActionPrecisionDiscipline

Required

5+ years of experience deploying or managing mid to large scale, distributed, customer-facing, OLTP Linux environments spanning hundreds of servers

5+ years of experience designing, configuring, scaling, and supporting a 24x7x365 hosted SaaS environment

Deep knowledge of modern monitoring and alerting tools and practices including Open Telemetry standards and open-source tools such as Prometheus, influx dB, Grafana, ELK, Telegraf, fluent, etc…

Experience building and maintaining hybrid infrastructures and on-premise data centers

5+ years with infrastructure automation / configuration management / IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Bicep, Terraform

3+ years implementing and supporting modern infrastructure services such as consul, vault, Kubernetes, application load balancers and integrating these with both monolithic and service-based applications

5+ years administering Solaris, Linux & Windows platforms

3+ years supporting complex routing/switching environments including VPN and dynamic routing protocols

3+ years administering enterprise block and file storage platforms

3+ years administering MySQL platform (replication experience highly desirable) & Java applications

Experience with Windows and Active Directory and infrastructure as a code

Strong working knowledge of datacenter network topologies, components (routing, switching, fiber channel, and next-gen firewalls) and various networking and application protocols, including TCP/IP

Working knowledge of relational database solutions such as MySQL as well as NoSQL and in-memory database solutions

Hands-on leadership: ability to jump in and put “hands on the keyboard” in high-pressure situations

Root cause mentality, always looking to understand the “why” and have a bias to action to solve problems

Precision and discipline around adherence to process and standard operating procedures, but can also navigate ambiguity