DevOps Engineer

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About Brightcove
Brightcove is a team of smart, passionate people who are revolutionizing the way organizations deliver video. We’re hyped up about storytelling, and about helping people connect, share experiences, and view the world. Bottom line:
video is the world’s most compelling, exciting medium, and Brightcove exists to demonstrate that video means business.
As the industry leader in this space, we empower our customers to deliver top-notch video experiences to audiences on every screen in bold and innovative ways. When video is done right, it can have a powerful and lasting effect. Hearts open. Minds change. Creativity thrives. Since 2004, Brightcove has been supporting customers that are some of the largest media companies, enterprises, events, and non-profit organizations in the world. There are over 600 Brightcovers globally, each of us representing our unique talents and passions and we have built a culture that values individual empowerment, excellence and collaboration. This culture enables us to develop technologies once thought impossible, provide customer support without parallel or excuses, and leverage the expertise and resources of a global infrastructure. We take our video seriously, and we take great pride in doing it as one team.
Position Overview
Our Operations team is looking for a DevOps Engineer to help maintain and enhance our global Service Platform, and to support the engineering teams that are operating mission critical services on it. Every day will offer new and exciting challenges so a successful candidate must be self-motivated, highly curious, and interested in learning new technologies. You may be DevOps born and bred, or maybe you’re a Software Developer looking for more of a DevOps role, but either way, this may be the position for you.
Job Responsibilities
Work with a variety of internal engineering teams to gather requirements for moving existing services to Kubernetes-based common infrastructure
Automate everything - Define, implement, and maintain platform features that will enable engineering teams to deliver the next generation of services powering Brightcove, including common metrics collection, automated testing, Continuous Integration and Delivery
Develop and improve common monitoring that quickly identifies problems, identifies root causes, and performs corrective action with minimal human intervention.
Collaborate with other teams to implement and automate best practices for release tools and processes to support fast, secure, scalable, and maintainable releases. Our fellow engineers are our customers!
Deliver a comprehensible platform that allows other engineering teams to be productive with minimal training
Qualifications/Experience
3 years of experience operating or supporting HTTP-based microservices (Go Lang)
Deep knowledge and experience with supporting and operating containerized software in an orchestrated environment (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker)
DevOps experience deploying and supporting applications running in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Google Cloud a plus
Familiarity with Role-based resource access controls (e.g. AWS IAM)
Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tools (e.g. Jenkins, Spinnaker)
Experience with Java (Groovy) with specific emphasis in relation to Jenkins
Experience with Infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, custom DSL)
Experience with version control management systems and common branching methodologies
Ability to work closely with a team but self-sufficient enough to execute with minimal supervision
Ability to understand, empathize with, and respond appropriately to user inquiries and support requests (both internal and external).
Experience developing in Go Lang, Node, Java (Groovy), or Python
These are the qualifications and experience we are targeting but we also are excited to have an opportunity to teach you technologies and skills you've never used before. All we ask for is creativity and tenacity in solving the problems that we are tackling together.
Working at Brightcove
As the undisputed global leader in powering premium video for our customers, Brightcove recruits and retains highly qualified and motivated individuals, creating an environment where people can innovate and achieve their best, and we reward them for their performance by giving them the opportunity to share in the company’s success. We offer competitive compensation, stock options, 401k matching, and tuition reimbursement, as well as generous PTO - and we expect you to use it!
We are currently all working remotely due to Covid-19 and plan to return to an in-office experience once it is safe to do so. When we return, this role will be located in our Boston office which is located downtown, in Fort Point harbor. This Brightcove office has an open working space layout with beautiful water views. Employees enjoy access to fully-stocked kitchens and social activities including: happy hours, trivia and movie nights, ping pong tournaments, and philanthropy events. While you won’t get to experience the in-office culture immediately, you will feel it remotely and be able to participate actively. We have plenty of opportunities to meet your colleagues around the globe and we also celebrate a variety of personal interests with organized groups and clubs including an Employee Action Committee, Women of Brightcove, Pride of Brightcove, Parents of Brightcove … and more to come!
If you've gotten all the way to the bottom of this description, thank you for your interest in Brightcove! If this role sounds like something that is exciting to you please don't hesitate to apply, even if you don't meet all of our qualifications. We recognize that no candidate is perfect and Brightcove would love to have the chance to get to know you.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
Please note that while this job description is an accurate description of the role, it is also subject to change during the course of this search.
Send us your resume if you are interested and want to learn more!

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