Job description

As a Sr. DevOps Engineer, you will create tools, processes, and infrastructure to enable developers to efficiently and securely deploy and operate LegalMatch at scale. This role emphasizes automation, cloud infrastructure enhancement, developer collaboration, and the implementation of robust security practices.

To succeed in your role, you will need to be a problem solver with a mindset for continuous improvement. You should be proactive, flexible, and willing to do what it takes in order to deliver high-quality results under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities:

Building software, tools, and processes to enable engineers to move fast without incidents.
Driving automation to streamline repetitive tasks and enhance system efficiency.
Collaborating with Engineering Teams to ensure smooth deployment of production services.
Designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
Troubleshooting infrastructure, application, and network issues while enhancing monitoring systems.
Ensuring compliance by collaborating with teams to meet regulatory requirements.
Supporting developers and QA Engineers with testing environment changes and DB updates.
Assisting teams in transitioning to self-managed deployments and releases.
Improving system performance, reliability, and operational efficiency continuously.
Participating in on-call coverage and performing maintenance during non-business hours.

To succeed in your role, you need to be:

Proactive, outcome-oriented mindset with strong problem-solving skills.
Ability to work effectively under pressure and resolve issues efficiently.
Passionate about continuous improvement, consistently seeking opportunities to enhance processes and systems.
Skilled in collaboration and communication, working effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders.

Requirements

Technical Requirements:

To qualify for the role, you should have experience in most of the following:

A dynamic, learning-oriented, and high-performing approach to work.
Proactive, self-managing attitude with excellent troubleshooting and communication skills.
Is proficient in the following:

UNIX and LINUX operating systems, storage environments, file systems, and network protocols
UNIX principles, file editing, UNIX commands, and file manipulation
Windows, UNIX, LINUX, and LINUX shell scripting
Networking including routing, subnets, TCP, IP, VLANs, and UDP.
Setting up, maintaining and cloud infrastructure of web applications.
AWS services with best practices regarding security and scalability. Currently utilized services: Beanstalk, ECS (Fargate), EC2, ECR, CloudFront, S3/EFS, RDS, Lambda, Elasticache
Experience with CloudWatch (setting up metrics and alarms), IAM (user permissions, service roles, policies), VPC (subnet configuration, routing, security groups)
Infrastructure as a code: AWS CDK (TypeScript) or similar tool
Docker and Docker-Compose
Jenkins (pipelines and shared libraries development in Groovy)