The DevOps Engineer will deploy, administer, and troubleshoot hosting infrastructure, maintain configuration management, and collaborate with dev teams for performance and security improvements.
Company Description
blueStone Recruiting is a national search firm specialized in IT.
Job DescriptionOur client, located in River North, is hiring a Systems Engineer to help build their DevOps culture and assist with the delivery of a modern SaaS platform. In this role, you will work closely with our top notch infrastructure, release, and development teams to maintain and improve our performance, security, and uptime standards. Reporting directly to our Infrastructure Architect, this is an exciting career opportunity for a self-starting and resourceful professional.
Our client is one of the leading providers of software to manage R&D and innovation, and has a client base that ranges from Fortune 500 firms as well as leading education institutions.
Our client's team is highly collaborative, technical, and creative. This role will give you hands-on experience with the design and operation of a modern microservice-based SaaS application.
Responsibilities:
- Deployment, administration, and troubleshooting of our distributed hosting infrastructure
- Setup and maintenance of automated configuration management and deployment systems
- Active collaboration with dev teams, providing everyday ChatOps, release, and system support
- Create and maintain technical procedures and documentation
- Response and resolution of service issues
Requirements:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Effective communication and collaboration with internal teams and external clients
- Linux hosting experience (web serving, db admin, and JVM or interpreted language support)
- Experience with configuration management, systems scripting, and continuous deployment
- A documented history of hard work and engineering excellence
Preferred:
- Experience instilling values and practices consistent with a strong DevOps and ChatOps culture
- Exposure to Cassandra, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, Mesos or other distributed systems
- Understanding of HTTP, SSL/TLS, and TCP/IP
- Experience with information security: standards certification, auditing, and pen testing
- Proven success in high-growth startup environments
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science
Work with blueStone recruiting to find your next career. You can find us at http://bluestonerecruiting.com. We look forward to speaking with you!
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
blueStone Solutions Group Deer Park, Illinois, USA Office
21660 W Field Pkwy, Deer Park, Illinois, United States, 60010
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