DevOps Engineer

A multi-platform distributed system rooted in the video social media space is looking for a DevOps Engineer. The engineer will own the concept of scaling the product and ensuring the system is up to speed. The company hosts both a mobile and web application that streams video content to user’s devices and records various pieces of information relative to the usage of the application. This will be a full-time role requiring significant overlap with the EST time zone. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and own best practices for managing production infrastructure: provisioning, application scaling, configuration management, capacity planning, CI/CD, staging, etc.
• From an operational standpoint, improve critical infrastructure and systems (i.e., deployment, logging, monitoring, alerting, etc.)
• Work with the wider engineering team on the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of the infrastructure that supports our developer platform
• Create apps that are scalable and reliable
• Work closely with developers during the deployment and testing phases to provide insights into security best practices

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 5+ years of relevant experience as a DevOps Engineer
• Demonstrable experience working with CI/CD, AWS, SQL, and Java
• Excellent object-oriented, database design, and problem-solving skills
• Experience working with AWS and cloud infrastructures (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk)
• Experience in Java Object-Oriented design and programming concepts
• Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-region production systems
• Build and operate complex distributed systems involving microservices and APIs
• Nice to have some Media/Media delivery experience
• Excellent English communication skills