Dev Ops Engineer

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Sphera, the former Operational Excellence and Risk Management business of IHS Inc. (“Company”) is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services that enable companies to manage and optimize their environmental, health, safety and sustainability (“EHS&S”) processes. Amongst a wide variety of use cases, the software allows customers to standardize and automate processes such as incident reporting, to monitor emissions and ensure regulatory compliance and to track chemical inventory throughout a manufacturing cycle. The company was recently spun off by IHS and acquired by Genstar Capital, essentially positioning it as a $100MM start up.

DevOps Engineer

This role will be a system administrator on our DevOps team managing a SaaS platform.  This role will provide you with the opportunity to learn about new DevOps technologies.  SpheraCloud is a multi-tenant cloud SaaS platform supporting thousands of users 24x7.  The candidate will join the team with responsibility for maintaining the hosting servers, networks and application stack.  This will include application deployment, monitoring, fault finding and debugging.

 

Skills and Experience

 

·Hands on experience being in a similar role, working in enterprise organisations

·Experience of working in an agile software development life cycle

·Strong knowledge of both Microsoft and Linux server environments

·Familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server

·Familiarity with Team Foundation Server and/or VSTS

·Strong knowledge of IIS configuration and management

·Experience with server builds configuration and remote management

·Working knowledge of local and wide area networking and associated technologies, e.g. switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs

·Good understanding of Virtualisation technologies, with hands on experience of VMWare or Hyper-V

·Scripting skills with at least one of following: PowerShell, Bash

·Understanding of security principles

·Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar area of study

 

Preferred experience

 

·Knowledge of configuration management (Chef, Puppet, etc) and service orchestration tools

·Familiarity with public cloud service management systems and APIs, including AWS and Azure

·Experience with cloud-based application deployment and dynamic scaling

·Shell scripting skills and/or configuration management skills.

·Knowledge of version control / source code management tools desirable

 

The role will be based in the Chicago, US office, although the role includes working with the DevOps team in the UK and US locations and dealing with colleagues in our other global offices on occasion.

 

Sphera is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

 

At Sphera, we are working together to help our customers keep their people safe, their products sustainable and their operations productive.  The best people don't want a job, they want to change the world and themselves.  The best want to challenge the status quo.  The best want to grow themselves and their careers.  Come check out what Sphera has to offer and how that matches up with your career goals.                                                                                                                           

Sphera is an equal opportunity employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status and other legally protected characteristics.

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We are located right off of the Randolph/Wabash L stop in the Prudential Plaza with fantastic views of the Lake Michigan & Millennium Park.

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