DevOps Engineer

Come work for a company in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles that strives to provide workforce diversity and highly values collaboration and positive social impact. 

We are the world's leading social planning web site and digital platform for bringing people together face-to-face. Create and send invitations via text, email, or sharable link and manage RSVPs and messages all in one place.

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure supporting the development and deployment processes for our web, platform, and mobile software. This includes working with software engineers, QA, and system administrators to continuously improve and advance associated processes and technologies to a world-class standard. This role will also assist with release engineering activities for our cloud-based services.

Responsibilities

Cloud Administration - we use the Google Cloud Platform. AWS is OK, but prefer Google

Support day-to-day software release activities for mobile apps (iOS and Android) and cloud-based products including source-control, ticketing, and configuration management

Collaborate with engineering and operations personnel to develop and manage infrastructure used in building and deploying various mobile and cloud-based products

Work closely with QA, manage test environments, and support general QA and test automation needs

Help with system administration of in-house and cloud-hosted infrastructure including customer facing and backoffice systems

Enforce operational best practices and procedures including but not limited to security and user management

Monitor and troubleshoot system stability and performance issues

Identify, evaluate, deploy, and troubleshoot open source tools and technologies in support of software deployment and management

Proactively keep systems updated with latest software upgrades and patches to ensure best performance and security

Assist with JIRA system administration

Create and update documentation that can be used by all release and systems team members 

 Preferred Skills:

Release Engineering - strong understanding and demonstrated experience in software branching methodologies, GitHub, Jenkins, 

Scripting - Python is preferred

4 - 6 years’ experience in supporting software development and DevOps processes within an Agile environment

Experience with cloud administration (Amazon, Google, backoffice SaaS solutions)

Proficient scripting skills in languages such as Python or Bash

Experience with configuring and managing system monitoring solutions

Experience in 24x7 production operations supporting a highly available environment 

Experience with Git source code control system

Experience with Jenkins build management system

Experience with the Android and/or iOS ecosystem

Experience with operating systems administration (Unix, Windows, OS X)

Self-starter that requires minimal supervision 

Outstanding verbal and written communication skills

Be comfortable working and coordinating with several teams in a fast pace and high growth environment

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.