Lead DevOps Engineer Requisition

Job Description

DescriptionDescription:We are seeking a talented Lead DevOps Engineer to help build next generation Security Analytics product.As a Lead DevOps Engineer at Qualys, you will be an integral member of the DevOps team whose responsibility includes prototyping, designing, developing and supporting a highly scalable release and deployment automation pipeline.This is a great opportunity to be a part of a team building Qualys next generation Micro-Services based technology platform, processing over a 100 million transactions and terabytes of data per day, leverage open-source technologies, and work on challenging and business-impacting projects.Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of DevOps Engineers with a vision of achieving a truly scalable and maintainable release/deployment automation pipeline.
• Communicate effectively with the Development & QA managers on release milestones, sprints and roadmap activities with respect to release/deployment automation pipeline.
• Co-develop the automation pipeline that is responsible in managing the configuration of different production environments.
• Prototype, design and develop tools that could release software changes with high velocity and confidence.

• Enhance the automation pipeline to support multiple public cloud providers and Qualys owned private cloud providers.
• Research, evaluate and adopt next generation technologies.
• Deploy, manage, upgrade systems, services and containers of the pipeline using automated configuration management and service orchestration tools.
• Monitor and alert the DevOps and SRE teams based on system performance metrics, analysis of log files and custom alert rules.
• Produce weekly, monthly and quarterly uptime and status reports for production and critical internal infrastructure.

• Perform analysis and make recommendations in areas that require a high level of technical competency in the DevOps space.
• Assist with plans for development and QA to effectively utilize CI/CD pipelines and cloud based, potentially containerized platforms and infrastructures.
• Collaborate on estimates of work effort for all feature and user stories as a team DevOps subject-matter expert.
• Provide technical and cultural training, guidance, and resource support for all departmental staff in the DevOps area.

Qualifications:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Applied Math or related field.
• 3+ years of leading a team of engineers in architecting, designing and developing release/deployment pipelines
• 6+ years of experience in the field of datacenter infrastructure management (UNIX/Docker/ Kubernetes/ Microservices)
• 5+ years of experience in CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery/Deployment and Agile practices.
• Good Linux system administrator skills and TCP/IP network fundamentals
• Expertise in scripting languages such as python, ruby or php
• Tenacious and aggressive troubleshooting skills
• Good communication and documentation skills

• Strong command of configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, CloudFormation in a large-scale environment.
• Experience using log collection tools like Splunk or ELK stack
• Experience with container orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Deployment of instances using virtualization technologies like VMware, Eucalyptus, KVM, Open Stack
• Knowledge in working with relational databases like Oracle, MSSQL or MySQL

• Experience with Blue Green Deployment to reduce downtime and risk, provide continuous deployment and fast rollback
• Software development experience/full stack development
• Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing deployments from development to production
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible
• In-depth experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
• Exposure to Maven, Ant or Gradle for builds
• Networking
• Scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell etc.)

• Linux OS proficiency
• Ansible, Chef, Terraform, Puppet
• Jira, Jenkins, GIT proficiency
• Handle scripting and automation through Java, Bash, Python.

Considerations:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field
• Built an automation pipeline from the ground up
• Experience with developing plugins for Jenkins
• Experience with developing plugins for Atlassian tools

• Experience with developing plugins for Gradle
• Experience with developing binary plugins for Ansible in Golang
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Graphite, Grafana and Prometheus
• Experience with Hashi Corp technologies such as Consul, Vault, Terraform and Vagrant

EEO Employer/Vet/Disabled,

Keyskills :
configuration managementperformance metricsrelational databaseslinuxgitsystem administrationinfrastructure managementmavenprivate cloudjenkinslinux system administrationautomationmonitoring tools