Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities for reducing toil, automating workflows, and creating tools to increase engineering efficiency.
• Administration, engineering support, and maintaining consistent configuration with a particular focus on automation technologies and DevOps.
• Proactively monitor systems and services for performance, availability, and capacity management.
• Perform all administrative processes and procedures to maintain the availability of the system. 
• Ensure procedures, processes, and documentation are well defined and available to the rest of the team. 
• Work independently and receive minimal guidance.
• Ensure various backups are in place so we’re able to recover from disasters.

Technical Skills

• 2-4 years of successful technical experience supporting and maintaining a production system.
• Understanding of security best practices.
• A very strong understanding of Linux or other POSIX-based operating systems.
• Understanding of networking, CIDR, Subnetting, and VPN.
• PostgreSQL administration experience.
• Experience with IaC like Terraform/Terragrunt, CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Experience operating infrastructure in a major public cloud (ideally AWS).
• Experience with Kubernetes, scripting, and automation.
• Solid knowledge of Python
• Experience working with various CI/CD pipeline tools.