DevOps Administrator – Boston

DevOps Administrator

Working closely with product, delivery and client support to deploy their hosted solution, the DevOps Administrator will be part of a team that is responsible for the day-to-day development, support and deployment of their solution to development and production platforms.

These are the expectations that they have of a successful and accomplished DevOps

Administrator:

• Customer-facing excellence
• Understanding of cloud deployment methodologies and their accompanying software development life cycles
• Strong background in Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting
• Strong experience with database administration, troubleshooting and tuning (MySQL, Mongo)
• Experience with data retention management
• Experience with data transmission and storage
• Experience with disaster recovery and failover
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services
• A working understanding of code and script (PHP, Python, Perl and/or Ruby)
• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef or an equivalent is preferred
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations
• Excellent end user and customer support

Competencies

They are looking for a candidate with at least 5 years of experience in the following technologies:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university and/or related experience
• Experience with Red Hat and CentOS flavors of the Linux operating system
• Experience with VMware virtualization technologies
• Experience with AWS instances and VPCs
• Patch management techniques for servers and clients
• Excellent time management, communication, writing and customer service skills
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting and decision-making skills
• Management of third-party vendors
• Experience with Atlassian products, a plus
• Good understanding of networking and security principles