Platform DevOps Engineer

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If you're a DevOps and/or Cloud-based systems enthusiast who loves cutting-edge technologies in an environment that encourages exploration, play, and learning, then Gracenote is the place for you! Join a close-knit, passionate team that collaborates in an agile environment to develop great technology. We encourage professional growth opportunities and invest in your personal development. Bring your Cloud and DevOps experience to help build out the capabilities of our Gracenote platform.

Job Purpose:

• Develop and enhance SaaS/PaaS platforms for Kubernetes, data-lake query, data processing, orchestration, monitoring, and more by leveraging popular open-source software and git automation.
• Ensure the reliability and availability of our SaaS/PaaS services using SRE best practices for architecture, monitoring, alerting, and more.

Job Description:

• Evaluate, contribute to, and leverage open-source technologies including Kubernetes, Trino, Spark, Airflow, Prometheus + friends, ELK, Jupyter, and more to create and enhance our internal SaaS/PaaS platforms.
• Be an internal sales-person for DevOps tools and best practices, helping to get all teams towards full adoption.
• The platform allows Gracenote to provide all teams with features, optimizations, updates, and security enhancements at scale and pace.
• Diagnose technical and scalability faults on platform services typically built on Kubernetes.
• Provide technical support and usage guidance to the users of our platform's services.
• Drive the creation and refinement of metrics, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms to give us the visibility we need into our production services.

Role Requirements:

• Passionate about software development and DevOps.
• Competency in SQL and scripting in bash and/or Python for automation.
• Experience with DevOps automation technologies like Terraform, Ansible, Secrets Management, Git, Jenkins (or similar ones).
• Experience with Unix/Linux-based platforms.
• 2+ years of work experience.
• A degree in computer science, engineering, math, or related fields.