Senior DevOps Software Engineer
Overview
At Relativity, we make great software that helps users organize data, discover the truth, and act on it. Our product is used by more than 13,000 organizations around the world – in the cloud, on-premises, or both – to manage large volumes of data.
Here you can own your career in a community of values-driven people who help our customers around the world solve complex data challenges. If this sounds like the place for you, check out the details of this position below.
The Senior DevOps Software Engineer is responsible for engineering a large distributed solution and working with departmental contacts to support the demands of the department and meet the objectives of the product development process.
Responsibilities
The Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for delivering results for the Product Development department by:
- Be a DevOps champion - work closely with the team to build and automate security, reliability, scalability...basically everything into the development lifecycle
- Design and develop tools to aid our cloud-based continuous delivery system as well as work jointly with other team members to deliver innovative solutions to complex business and engineering challenges
- Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes that are highly distributed, performant, available, scalable, and self-healing in the cloud.
- Collaborate in a fast-paced environment with multiple teams in a large organization. (Development, Release Management, Engineer Operations, etc.)
- Improve customer experience by providing greater visibility on their bills and manage their cost more efficiently
- Define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging tools that alarm and display metrics coming from our active processes
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to application development, deployment, and operations
- Provide a dependable and highly skilled development resource for peers
The Senior DevOps Engineer performs the following functions, in addition to others:
- Advocate and model coding and collaboration practices, reviews team code, and provides team members with feedback and suggestions for process improvement
- Collaborate with other dev teams regularly to establish an outbound and inbound pipeline of new (to Relativity) practices to continually tune the team’s process
- Oversee the application environment to effectively run and maintain the technology and recommend any potential technology or process improvements with an emphasis on cloud computing and configuration management platforms
- Remain open to new ideas and encourage innovative practices amongst peers
- Work with test engineers to encourage defect prevention over detection
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related discipline
- 7+ years of software development of commercial-grade systems
- 5+ years of supporting customer facing web delivered software
- 3+ years of cloud experience preferred
- 1 + year(s) of experience with a scripting language. (Shell, Python, Bash, Perl, etc.)
- Experience with Configuration Management Tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, etc.)
- Experience in rolling out application changes to multiple distributed systems in a production environment
- Desire and drive to learn and keep up-to-date on technology. Ability to filter vaporware, fun to learn, from value add technology
- Familiarity with cloud network, infrastructure, and security components.
- Experience with operations for JVM-based applications
- Experience with Agile software development methodologies
- Extraordinary sense of ownership and passion for writing world-class software
- Possess excellent problem-solving skills with attention to detail
- Possess excellent teamwork and partnering skills for cross-group collaboration
- Possess excellent leadership skills, ability to perform under the pressure and deliver technical solution
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Preferred:
- Experience with Azure
- Experience with Kafka, Cassandra, Spark, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Mesos, Cloud Foundry, or OpenShift
- Experience writing code in Scala or Java
- Experience with a 24/7 production environment
- Knowledge of analytics or Machine Learning workflows
About Us
Our software has more than 150,000 active users in more than 40 countries from organizations including the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 70 Fortune 100 companies, and more than 195 of the Am Law 200. We have grown significantly over the last several years and continue striving to build software that helps solve our customers’ toughest e-discovery and unstructured data challenges.
If you’re ready to grow with us, we’d love to hear from you.