Develop and enhance SaaS/PaaS platforms using open source technologies. Ensure reliability and availability of services via best practices. Support teams in adopting DevOps tools and diagnose technical faults.
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Job Purpose
- Develop and enhance SaaS/PaaS platforms for kubernetes, data-lake query, data-processing, orchestration, monitoring, and more by leveraging popular open source software and git automation.
- Ensure the reliability and availability of our SaaS/PaaS services using SRE best practices for architecture, monitoring, alerting, etc.
Role Description
- Evaluate, contribute to, and leverage open source technologies including Kubernetes, Trino, Spark, Airflow, Prometheus + friends, ELK, Jupyter, and more in order to create and enhance our internal SaaS/PaaS platforms.
- Be an internal sales-person for the DevOps tools and best-practices, helping to get all teams towards full adoption. The platform allows Gracenote to provide all teams with features, optimizations, updates, and security enhancements at scale and pace.
- Diagnose technical and scalability faults on platform services which are typically built on Kubernetes.
- Provide technical support and usage guidance to the users of our platform’s services.
- Drive the creation and refinement of metrics, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms to give us the visibility we need into our production services.
Role Requirements
- Passionate about software development and DevOps.
- Competency in SQL and scripting in bash and or python for automation.
- Experience with DevOps automation technologies like Terraform, Ansible, Secrets Management, Git, Jenkins (or similar ones).
- Experience with Unix/Linux based platforms.
- Experience with containers (docker, container).
- Experience with AWS Services.
- 3+ years of work experience.
- A degree in computer science, engineering, math or related fields
Desired Skills
- These skills are nice to have:
- Ability to code well in Java or Python (or another language and willingness to earn these two).
- Experience with containers (docker, containerd) and kubernetes.
- Experience with Presto, Trino, Spark, Airflow, Prometheus, ELK, or similar technologies.
- History of open source contributions
- A personal tech blog
Top Skills
Bash
Java
Python
SQL
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