Senior DevOps Engineer

 The Sr. DevOps Engineer is responsible for provisioning, configuring, securing, and administering cloud based, customer facing systems; LI-COR Cloud formerly known as HOBOlink and InTempConnect. 

 Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Creating and executing deployment plans for new software releases. Participate in the DevOps on-call rotation. 

• Provision cloud infrastructure using HashiCorp Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible. 

• Conduct security posture assessments, mitigating findings; Monitor and respond to ongoing threats. 

• Administer user access and identity management. 

• Monitor and manage network configuration and systems backup.   

• Observability and monitoring of micro-service environments using Grafana, Prometheus and AWS OpenSearch. 

• Act in alignment with business and user needs and contribute/support organizational policy. 

• Assist with and provide input to our annual operating budget and ensure cost effectiveness. 

• Collaborate with the DevOps team to complete the projects in a timely manner, following our quality and security standards.     

• Develop, setup, configure and monitor health and status of the whole stack: load balancers to filesystems and databases.  

• Work with Engineering SCM to deploy customer-facing systems.  

• Oversee software code scanning using SonarQube. 

• Help automate and streamline our applications, operations, and processes. 

• Develop, build, and maintain tools for monitoring and operations. 

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in all our environments including development, staging, performance, and production.  

• Schedule and execute system updates to hosted server instances. 

• Oversee backup process, perform periodic failover and redundancy testing. 

• Handle domain registration and maintenance. 

• Work regularly with:  Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux/Unix Administration, Maven, Jenkins, GoCD, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-based monitoring tools; Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, NewRelic, Java EE (Web applications); Vue.JS, Node.js, (HA) services and infrastructure (load balancers, database clusters, replication, and application server pools), PSQL and MySQL and scripting languages – shell, python.