Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

About your 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 focus on DevOps 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.  

How you will make a difference day to day

• Participate in the adoption of public cloud technologies, optimizing our architecture and practices to make the 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 withinthe  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

What you’ll need

• Minimum of 5 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)
• Red Hat Linux/CentOS administration and management

The ideal candidate will also have:

• Experience with managing highly available production-facing e-commerce websites
• 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)

What We Offer:

• An opportunity to be at the forefront of expanding a leading online legal service platform globally
• A dynamic, collaborative, and supportive work environment focused on professional growth and development
• Competitive compensation and benefits package, including comprehensive health insurance and access to wellness programs

Benefits & Perks