DVN DevOps Engineer

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The
DVN
team is looking for an experienced, motivated,
devops
-minded software engineer to join us in maintaining and improving our major sites Airliners.net and
Dailypuppy
.com!
Team motto: Standardization,
Virtualization
, Automation, Documentation.
The person is responsible for building and implementing infrastructure tools, automating the deployment pipeline, and working with development teams to help build scalable software.
A few examples of technologies we work with on a daily basis: Apache,
Redis
Twemproxy
Memcached
, Varnish,
Solr
, E
lasticsearch
, MySQL, Puppet,
Splunk
, Graphite,
Nagios
, New Relic, Git (
Gitorious
Github
FluentD
, Jenkins, Packer, Vagrant,
RabbitMQ
Akamai
CDN
and video streaming,
Django
, Tornado,
nginx
. We don’t expect you to know all these things right off the bat, but you should definitely be interested in learning.
Responsibilities:
Engineering - Interface with engineering teams to understand code changes, assess risk and ensure best practices for operational tasks
Be strong in troubleshooting technical issues, communicating and documenting procedures, and recommending architectural changes if necessary
Operations - Provide adequate response to error alerts, ensure proper monitoring implementation and provide solutions to ensure 100% site up time.
Participate in on-call rotation duties for emergency operations
Be flexible, be team-oriented, have good communications skills, be generally pretty awesome.
Requirements:
3-5 years of experience
Fluent in a programming language (
PHP
, Python experience is a plus, etc)
Must be able to directly communicate with developers on specifications and architecture required to support numerous project/features
Experience with
CDNs
Akamai
Edgecast
Cloudfront
, etc)
MySQL experience is a plus
Able to discern a network issue vs a system issue
Proficient with deploying and managing systems utilizing Puppet (
CFEngine
and Chef experience is comparable)
Knowledgeable with Red Hat package management (rpm and yum, building
rpms
Able to dissect an existing application stack and convert the configuration of the system and application into an automated process
Knowledgeable about monitoring and metrics for performance, not just
uptime

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