Platform DevOps Engineer

If you are a DevOps and/or Cloud based systems enthusiast who likes to work on

cutting-edge technologies in an environment that gives you the freedom to explore, play,

and learn, then Gracenote is the right 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

experience with Cloud and DevOps to help to 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, etc.

Job Description:

• Evaluate, contribute to, and leverage open source technologies including

Kubernetes, Trino, Spark, Airflow, Prometheus + friends, ELK, Jupyter, and

more in order to create and enhance our internal SaaS/PaaS platforms.

• Be an internal sales-person for the 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 which are

typically built on Kubernetes.

• Provide technical support and usage guidance to the users of our platforms

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.
• Experience with containers (docker, container).
• Experience with AWS Services.
• 2+ years of work experience.
• A degree in computer science, engineering, math or related fields

Desired Skills:

These skills are nice to have.

• Ability to code well in Java or Python (or another language and willingness to

learn these two).

• Experience with containers (docker, containerd) and kubernetes.
• Experience with Presto, Trino, Spark, Airflow, Prometheus, ELK, or similar

technologies.

• History of open source contributions
• A personal tech blog