DevOps Engineer

Why Pythian: At Pythian, we are experts in strategic database and analytics services, driving digital transformation and operational excellence. Pythian, a multinational company, was founded in 1997 and started by ensuring the reliability and performance of mission-critical databases. We quickly earned a reputation for solving tough data challenges. We were there when the industry moved from on-premises to cloud environments, and as enterprises sought more from their data, we expanded our competencies to include advanced analytics. Today, we empower organizations to embrace transformation and leverage advanced technologies, including AI, to stay competitive. We deliver innovative solutions that meet each client’s data goals and have built strong partnerships with Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Snowflake. The powerful combination of our extensive expertise in data and cloud and our ability to keep on top of the latest bleeding edge technologies make us the perfect partner to help mid and large-sized businesses transform to stay ahead in today’s rapidly changing digital economy. Why you: Do you thrive on solving tough problems—even under pressure? Are you motivated by fast-paced environments with continuous learning opportunities? Do you enjoy collaborating with a team of peers who push you to constantly up your game? At Pythian, we are building a next-generation Site Reliability Engineering team. We need motivated and talented individuals on our teams, and we want you! You’ll act as a technology leader, advisor for our clients, and mentor for other team members. Projects would include infrastructure architecture, automation, and intelligent monitoring systems from design through implementation. If you Love Your Data and want to Love Your Career, this could be the job for you! If this is you, and you wonder what it would be like to work at Pythian, reach out to us and find out! Intrigued to see what a life is like at Pythian? Check out #pythianlife on LinkedIn and follow @loveyourdata on Instagram! Not the right job for you? Check out what other great jobs Pythian has open around the world! Pythian Careers What you will be doing:

Operate, maintain, and administer solutions contributing to customer infrastructure's operational efficiency, availability, and visibility.
Planning maintenance activity, design documentation, and standard procedures
Provide Root Cause Analysis reports for outages/incidents (ITIL - Problem Management)
Observe and provide feedback on the current state of the client’s infrastructure, and identify opportunities to improve resiliency, reduce incident occurrence, and automate repetitive administrative and operational tasks.
Contribute to, improve, and maintain team documentation about client systems and infrastructure, procedures,

policies, and schedules.

Gather and document information about client environments through audit activities,

and analyze the information to identify opportunities for improvement and application of best practices.

Work collaboratively with teammates to contribute to the continuous improvement of our working culture.
Act as a technology leader for clients,

as well as drive client discussions on technology road maps.

Participate in an on-call rotation in an escalation capacity.

What we need from you:

Experience working with Google and AWS Clouds (including infrastructure as code deployment with Cloud Formation,

Terraform, Opsworks, etc)

Scripting and automation of administrative tasks using Python is a must
Solid understanding of microservices architecture and container technologies (Kubernetes is a must,

Docker, lxc, etc)

Clear understanding of software development lifecycles and best practices from an infrastructure point of view (PRs,

merge, rebase, etc)

Understanding the end-to-end operations of a ‘Business System’ vs components.
Comprehensive systems hardware and network troubleshooting experience
Common Linux distribution platform installation,

configuration, performance tuning, and cloud migration.

TCP/IP networking,

NIC bonding, and network services configuration (DNS, NTP, DHCP, SMTP, etc)

Operation and administration of virtual infrastructure,

inclusive experience with at least one hypervisor (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, etc.)

Ability to describe IaaS,

PaaS, saas pros & cons use cases virtualization & cloud

Administration of web servers & supporting technologies including network load balancers
Experience with design development deployment Puppet
System & application error investigation troubleshooting access/availability issues including deep multi-system root cause analysis
Experience managing networking devices such as switches & firewalls from various vendors
Solid understanding DevOps tools processes culture
Ability pick up new technologies quickly
Ability provide accurate work scheduling task estimations work delivery

What you will receive:

Love your career: Competitive total rewards package. Blog during work hours; take a day offand volunteer for your favorite charity.
Love your work/life balance: Flexibly work remotely from your home ,there’s no daily travel requirementto an office! Allyou needis a stable internet connection.
Love your coworkers: Collaborate with someofthe bestand brightestin the industry!
Love your development: Hone your skills or learn new oneswith our substantial training allowance; participatein professional development days ,attend training ,become certified ,whateveryou like!
Love your workspace: We giveyou allthe equipmentyou needto workfrom home includinga laptopwith your choiceof OS ,and an annual budgetto personalizeyour work environment!
Love yourself: Pythian caresaboutthe healthand well-beingof our team .You will havean annual wellness budgetto make yourselfa priority(use iton gym memberships,massages ,fitnessand more). Additionally,you will receivea generous amountof paid vacationandsick days ,as wellas a dayoffto volunteerfor your favorite charity.

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