Sr Platform / DevOPs Lead Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote

Job Type: Full time / Remote working / Work from office

Infrastructure Responsibilities

• Radiate knowledge about the service's infrastructure and reliability to the rest of the development team.
• Identify parts of the system that do not scale, provide immediate palliative measures and drive long term resolution of these incidents.
• Document every action so your learnings turn into repeatable actions and then into automation.
• Improve the deployment process to make it as boring as possible.
• Manage our infrastructure with Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Proactively identify and reduce security risks
• Knowledge of common authentication technologies including JWT, OAuth, SAML, CAs, OTP/TOTP

Production Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain core infrastructure pieces that allow Benzinga to scale to support hundred of thousands of concurrent users.
• Be on an on-call rotation to respond to benzinga.com availability incidents and provide support for service engineers with customer incidents.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
• Automate and debug CI/CD piplines
• Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and not on outages.
• Bundle Prometheus monitoring as an out-of-the-box monitoring solution for Benzinga products
• Configure dashboards and alerts using Grafana
• Build and maintain the benzinga.com public monitoring gateway
• Provide backup and recovery solutions for critical data
• Create automated alerts to notify team members of regression

Qualification Criteria and other Skills

• Minimum 2 years of experience in the Software / IT field
• You can reason about software, algorithms, and performance from a high level.
• You have experience thinking about systems - edge cases, failure modes, behaviors, and specific implementations.
• You have worked with distributed systems and have a solid understanding of how modern web stacks are built, and why.
• You know your way around Linux and the Unix Shell.
• Experience with Docker, Nginx, Kubernetes required.
• Experience with some of these technologies: Elasticsearch, Postgres, MySQL, GitLab CI/CD, Kafka, BigQuery, Varnish
• Have had significant experience using AWS
• Strong communication skills
• Oddly enjoys updating services at 1am, 8am or whenever scheduling with the team and environment allows.
• FIrst to jump in when fighting fires
• Prepares us to fight fires as little as possible
• Self-motivated with strong organizational skills
• Interested in Financial Markets or a Media Junkie
• Loves to build products people need