DevOps/System Administrator

Established in 1991, Collabera has been a leader in IT staffing for over 22 years and is one of the largest diversity IT staffing firms in the industry. As a half a billion dollar IT company, with more than 9,000 professionals across 30+ offices, Collabera offers comprehensive, cost-effective IT staffing & IT Services. We provide services to Fortune 500 and mid-size companies to meet their talent needs with high quality IT resources through Staff Augmentation, Global Talent Management, Value Added Services through CLASS (Competency Leveraged Advanced Staffing & Solutions) Permanent Placement Services and Vendor Management Programs. 

Collabera recognizes true potential of human capital and provides people the right opportunities for growth and professional excellence. Collabera offers a full range of benefits to its employees including paid vacations, holidays, personal days, Medical, Dental and Vision insurance, 401K retirement savings plan, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance.

ROLE

As our DevOps/System Administrator, you will be responsible for the management of our IT infrastructure and systems critical to the web operations of the business. Specifically, you will be taking care of the following: 

• Manage and deploy web infrastructure

• Develop and release Chef code

• Develop and implement test and build jobs for Chef code

• Implement tuning and optimizations for the stability and speed of web applications

• Streamline the process of managing systems and perform optimizations on the web stack

• Implement technologies and processes to increase reliability and scalability of the web stack

• Maintain and update infrastructure and application monitoring systems

• Maintain and update application deployment code

• Work closely with the Engineering and Quality Assurance teams to identify, diagnose, solve issues, and work towards infrastructure and applications improvements

• Deploy monthly security patches and updates to all environments (Prod, Staging, Dev)

• Report to Manager, Information Technology to create, implement, and enforce suitable business processes around the development and implementation of works related to operations and infrastructure

ABOUT YOU:

You are a natural born problem solver and consistently bring creative solutions to tough problems and craft simplicity out of complexity. Agile is part of your DNA and you are capable of rapid iterations, frequent pivots and responsive to feedback. You have a high sense of ownership and are capable of driving multiple parallel projects to successful completion. You want to see the impact of your work making a difference every day and are an advocate of exceptional customer experience. Moreover, you also bring with you the following:

• 3 to 5 years of experience a similar position

• Must have core skills and technologies:

• Amazon Web Services

• Chef

• Coding abilities (Ruby, Shell)

• Build Server (e.g. Jenkins)

• LAMP stack

• Git

• Must have supporting skills and technologies:

• Deployment coding (Capistrano, CodeDeploy)

• Splunk

• Coding abilities (PHP, Python)

• Caching

• CDN

• Thor

• Critical thinker and problem solver with a resourcefulness and can-do attitude

• Passion for driving results, and proven results-orientation

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with a demonstrated ability to work independently, manage multiple projects, prioritize, and handle a high-volume of tasks, deadlines, and requirements

• Great communications skills and proven ability to work effectively cross-functionally

• An entrepreneurial mindset and a roll-up-the-sleeves work ethic - must be comfortable with ambiguity and rapid rates of change

• Degree or specialized diploma in technology or a related discipline

CHEF, GIT, JENKINS, RUBY

3-5 Years hands on Experience