Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer
Yello’s talent acquisition software helps companies reinvent how they recruit, to hire the right candidates at the right time. Our client-partners include more than 70 Fortune 500 companies and dozens more high-growth organizations.
You’ll be key member of the Yello Infrastructure Group. As a DevOps engineer you’ll be responsible for the mission critical services that keep the Yello Enterprise platform running. You must enjoy working with people and possess the ability to communicate technical information to users with a varying level of technical experience. Technical and performance troubleshooting skills are a must. You’ll be part of a rapidly growing team that values hard work, experimentation, and a “nothing is impossible” mindset.
- Build out, maintain and run a world class, fully automated cloud infrastructure on AWS and other IaaS providers
- Implement infrastructure scale-up / scale-down strategies based on utilization metrics
- Drive a culture of “infrastructure-as-code” instead of “traditional IT practices”
- Work closely with engineering managers and our support team to improve service availability and performance
- Help manage SQL and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, and Redis
- Collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot production issues
- 5+ years of professional Linux systems administration or DevOps experience
- Experience building and running a high-transactional, 24x7 production environment
- Experience managing AWS, Rackspace, Azure or other IaaS installations
- Experience provisioning and maintaining clusters of servers that will support large volumes of data
- Expertise specifying, designing, and implementing; traffic routing, health, and performance monitoring
- Experience with application delivery platforms for load balancing, caching, compression, application firewalling, reverse proxy, SSL termination, etc.
- Experience with applications that span multiple geographical locations
- Intimate knowledge of the Linux command line including shell scripting
- Strong scripting skills with Ruby, Python, or Perl
- Experience with systems configuration management and CI automation
- Strong standardization, policy and process drive
You can expect lots of mentorship and growth opportunities and professional advancement. Our team prides itself on its ability to practice continuous learning and development, constant collaboration and pushing traditional boundaries.
At Yello, we work together to improve the hiring experience and power recruitment programs. Every Yello team member is empowered to grow each day and achieve new career accomplishments, and we always make time to celebrate team members’ successes. Our Loop office is steps away from public transportation, overlooks Lake Michigan and our open concept office offers plenty of space to collaborate with colleagues, or to work independently. We offer health, dental and vision insurance, a competitive 401k match, a reimbursement for fitness memberships and support for ongoing learning. Above all, we look forward to coming to work each day to solve interesting problems and make the impossible, possible.
- Yello is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
- Candidates local to Chicago are preferred.
- You must be authorized to work in the United States, full-time, for any employer.
Must be able to sit or stand for continuous periods of time
This role frequently communicates/interacts with individuals, must have strong written and oral communication skills
- Yello reserves the right to assign or reassign the responsibilities and requirements to this job at any time
