What We Do:

Uptake is a Chicago-based predictive analytics SaaS platform provider that empowers major industry leaders to optimize performance, reduce asset failures and enhance safety. At Uptake, we combine our strengths—machine learning, analytics, data visualization and software development—with the expertise of our industrial partners. The result is enormous savings in development time and resources for Uptake’s partners and a proven industrial grade software platform that delivers value to partners and their end customers. 

What You'll Do:

As a Automation Engineer with an emphasis on Container Management platforms, the primary responsibility of this role is to design, build, deploy, and maintain automation scripts and tools that allows us to provision, deploy, and monitor Kubernetes infrastructure in our multi-cloud and multi-tenant environments. This role will enable automated provisioning of servers, storage, and networks for Kubernetes and supporting a migration strategy from existing platforms. You will work collaboratively with other team members to:

Responsibilities:

• Write and review scripts, templates, interfaces, and utility applications to ensure consistent and repeatable infrastructure deployments
• Work closely with our Site Operations, SRE, and Security teams to ensure fast, smooth roll-out of new designs and products
• Coordinate with other teams, such as Continuous Delivery, Security, Linux, Network, Help Desk, and Data Persistence to ensure overall success and support of Uptake systems
• Recommend and document standards and best practices including capacity planning, recovery strategies and security for supported areas
• Identify and troubleshoot recurring platform issues. Effective escalation of same to mid- and senior-level engineering teams for full resolution
• Create and review documentation and process regarding recurring issues, new standard operating procedures, knowledge transfer material, etc.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Reduce the end-to-end cost of systems operation and maintenance
• Mentor more junior staff in automation solutions, including involvement in the formulation of a structured training plan
• Participate in entry-level interviewing

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• 4+ years administering Container Management systems in Production environments.
• 2+ years experience working with Kubernetes
• 2+ years working with AWS IaaS
• Experience implementing highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise solutions
• A passion for DevOps and an appreciation for Continuous Integration/Deployment
• Outstanding programming and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work quickly and collaboratively in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment

Preferred skills:

• Provisioning & Configuration management (E.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible)
• Advanced knowledge of the primary AWS services (E.g. EC2, ELB, IAM, S3)
• Continuous Delivery and Integration tools (E.g. Jenkins, Bamboo, Spinnaker)
• Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. Python, Ruby, Bash Scripting).
• Experience working with Azure, GCP, VMWare.

Please provide:

• Resume
• Cover letter