Senior DevOps Engineer – Cision

Cision is a powerhouse in the Public Relations software space with an over 100 year legacy. By investing in our brand and technologies, we are driving the change in our industry. We invest in our people through amazing training and management and by empowering you to drive your career.

Position Purpose:

The DevOps Team is responsible for evangelizing the DevOps culture, application deployment and tier-3 support for our enterprise-level SaaS application used by Public Relations and Marketing professionals that has won multiple CODiE Awards for the last five consecutive years. We have recently started building a next gen application stack leveraging many emerging concepts in application architecture and design.

Position Responsibilities:

• Evaluate and improve processes around continuous integration and automation.


• The team is not only responsible for release management and deployment, but also troubleshooting and break-fix support for production services.


• Work closely with Software Engineering and IT Global Infrastructure to maintain continuous availability of mission critical systems.


• Support environmental needs for Software Engineering, QA, Product Management, Support, and others.


• Interface directly with Enterprise Architecture and Software Engineering leadership to architect the most efficient and effective environment.


• Design and manage automation systems, including software deployment, release management, disparate development environments, SDLC management, and product development life cycles.


• Administering and maintaining source control systems, including branching and merging strategies - GIT, SVN, and Shared Artifact Management


• Improve usage of orchestration tools (SaltStack) to move toward continuous integration and deployment.


• Manage optimization of build automation tools – msbuild, Maven, Gradle, Rake, Ivy


• Supervise build and deployment pipeline to ensure proper configuration.


• Document all “stories” through Atlassian tools (JIRA, Bamboo, etc.)

Experience:

• Experience with both Windows and Linux platforms, including the architecture, design, administration, and management of a distributed systems environment or micro-services based environment.


• Knowledge of Java, Python or other open source highly desirable.


• Expertise working in an Agile environment (2 week sprints)


• Big Data exposure is a great added bonus (CDH5, Hortonworks, MapR, OSS Hadoop)


• Strong experience with scripting languages (Python, Ruby, bash, Powershell)


• Understanding of the Cloud Server environment a plus, preferably EC2 AWS.


• SQL Server and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) or other similar high-read / high-write databases to manage big data class sets of application data.


• Distributed Monitoring and Time Series Datastores (Nagios, Sensu, InfluxDB, Graphite)


• Experience with SaltStack a huge plus.

Cision Story:

Cision is a leading global media intelligence company, serving the complete workflow of today’s communications, social media and content marketing professionals. Offering the industry’s most comprehensive PR and social software, rich analytics and a Global Insights team, Cision enables clients to improve their marketing and strengthen data-driven decision making. Cision also represents the Gorkana Group, PRWeb, Help a Reporter Out (HARO) and iContact brands. Headquartered in Chicago, Cision has over 100,000 customers worldwide and maintains offices in Canada, U.K., France, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, Finland and China. For more information, visit www.cision.com or follow @Cision on Twitter.

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