DevOps/SRE Engineer
Company Background
VacayHome Connect is a distribution and digital marketing platform provider transforming the vacation industry through innovative solutions. The company offers a mosaic of interconnected products and services designed to grow online vacation rental businesses for resorts, professional vacation rental managers, innkeepers, and individual homeowners. The VacayHome Connect team is dedicated to bridging the gap between consumers and vacation rental accommodations.
Reports To: Chief Technology Officer
Principal Objective
We are seeking a passionate DevOps/SRE Engineer seeking a key role in a technology organization on the leading edge of data distribution for global travel companies. Our ideal candidate has experience in the travel industry and desire to build our DevOps organization from the ground up. The candidate must be able to engineer solutions that will help VacayHome Connect scale with improved visibility, automation and optimization of current processes.
This position offers excellent growth opportunities, competitive salary & incentives with the possibility to make an immediate impact. As a core team member, you will work closely with business, product, and technology organizations to drive processes that will allow us to scale. This is the perfect time to join our growing team of highly talented and motivated individuals working together to deliver needed innovation in travel.
Responsibilities
- Designing and developing scripts/tools for Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployments, automation templates/tools for infrastructure provisioning, configuration & change management
- Building and deploying web applications to multiple environments
- Automating configuration management and deployment
- Implement solutions for log storage and retrieval
- Work with all areas of the business including leadership, product, development, operations, support center, and accounting
- Create documentation for the solutions provided
Qualifications/Experience
3 years of DevOps or System Engineer experience
- Bachelor's degree in a Computer Science field, or equivalent work experience
- Hands on demonstrable experience with AWS services including EC2, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, SQS, SNS, Aurora, RDS, S3 Elasticache, and Elasticsearch
- NoSQL databases: MongoDB and Cassandra
- Jenkins, Bitbucket/Git, SVN, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
- Utilization of tools like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, NewRelic
- Familiar with Java-based tools like Maven, Spring
- Experience with Micoservices Architecture
- Understanding of security compliance including EU General Data Protection
- Familiar with Hashicorp open source tools a plus
- Strong and confident communicator with a positive and empathic attitude
- Self-awareness with a desire to collaborate and continually improve one’s skill set
Applicants for employment must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with FHLBC (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).