Team Overview:

Annalect Devops is directly responsible for the 24x7 monitoring and maintenance of the Annalect platforms, working closely with technology leadership, and are ultimately responsible for ensuring technology quality and security. The DevOps team is the final ownership line for all clouds. 

Position Overview:

Annalect is looking for a Devops Engineer to work in our Cloud based environment.  The DevOps Engineer will be directly responsible for the 24x7 monitoring and maintenance of the Annalect platforms, working closely with technology leadership, and be ultimately responsible for ensuring technology quality. This individual must have a proven track record of success managing/working in a functional and technical team with a strong sense of quality ownership for existing and new cloud-based platforms and features. This is a hands-on position that requires strategic thinking and planning to provide expertise throughout the entire infrastructure and operational lifecycle, ensuring the success of the team’s planning, building, operating, optimizing and automation efforts. This senior team member will provide mentorship and coaching to DevOps engineers and other technology team members. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the cloud infrastructure for Development, Test, and Production environments
• Communicate with the product development teams in several geographical locations to produce requirements for infrastructure, networking, and operations toolsets necessary to provision and maintain product lines
• Review and establish best practices for CI/CD solutions in collaboration with teams
• Provision and set up all environments (Live, Staging, Dev, QA) and coordinate with teams to ensure environments meet company standards and best practices
• Perform release and configuration management
• Act as a technical delivery resource for project specific tasks
• Build and maintain the core technology platform monitoring services
• Build and maintain automated deployment of the platform’s cloud infrastructure
• Build and maintain secure continuous deployment pipelines and automat continuous security monitoring and alerting using cloud capabilities
• Help with threat assessment and penetration testing as early as necessary/possible
• Help identify problem points within the production environment
• Solve day-to-day operational problems with the production environment
• Ensure robust, stable, and secure back-end infrastructure to support product portfolio
• Support the development team during application enhancements
• Contribute to Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery design
• Stay up to date with industry trends

Required Skills And Qualifications

• Proven working experience as part of an agile operation or development team
• Proven experience with at least one of the following: AWS, GCP, Azure Cloud Platforms
• Leverage cloud capabilities for network security, data security, and encryption
• Proficient in developing automation mechanisms for continuous build and integration activities
• Proficient in supporting large multi-tier infrastructure environments
• Ensure the security of IaaS/PaaS architectures, with good understanding of Web Application security
• Working knowledge of isolation tools, i.e., Docker
• Working knowledge of Windows/Linux Systems Administration
• Scripting ability – PowerShell, Python, Bash etc. (Basic Scripting skill)
• Good understanding of .NET ecosystem and build tools (optional)
• Knowledge of Git/Bitbucket
• Experience with Bamboo/Jenkins
• Producing good technical documentation skills, UML
• Team player, who is levelheaded and considers the impact of their actions on others
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and execute tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Good communication and documentation writing skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Must be self-motivated and highly organized
• 3+ years of Experience Working on Cloud Platforms. (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Cloud Certification is a plus
• Basic Scripting / Automation skill
• Good understanding of Linux Environment
• Knowledge of Terraform
• Knowledge of CI/CD Tool (Jenkins/Bamboo)
• Database Administration skill - MSSQL / MySQL / PostgreSQL

Perks of working at Annalect

• Culture! We have an incredibly fun, collaborative environment that encourages engagement and work/life balance
• Generous PTO that includes vacation days, personal days, a fantastic Summer Friday program and extended time off around the holiday season.
• As part of Omnicom, we have the backing and resources of a global billion-dollar company, but also have the flexibility and pace of a “startup” - we move fast, break things, and innovate.

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