DevOps Engineer

OVERVIEW

TransPerfect helps organizations navigate the global marketplace. It remains founder-led and has striven to maintain the ethos and drive that led them to grow organically year-on-year for the past 30 years. Starting in an NYU dorm room in the early 1990s, TransPerfect is today recognized as the largest translation and language services company in the world with thousands of employees located in 100+ offices around the world and over $1 billion in revenue in 2023.

The TransPerfect TechOps team has been a vital part of the companys success since its formation 10 years ago delivering technology and services that have drastically simplified the lives of our clients and colleagues from workflow improvements for colleagues, to core services that form the basis of the company’s GlobalLink platform, to creating scalable client interfaces that allow novice users to navigate complex ecosystems.

About this Role:

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be tasked with assisting the Development team in understanding, deploying and maintaining infrastructure related to hosting the TransPerfect SaaS applications. You will be responsible for diagnosing any configuration issues with these systems in coordination with the development teams. You will be the primary point of contact for the infrastructure needs as you deal directly with development teams who have service requests and technical problems such as issues with their servers, networking, and automated deployments.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Effectively provision, installation, configuration, operation, and maintenance of version control systems, build tools and continuous integration tools
• This position is responsible for developing, provisioning and testing application deployment automation and orchestration.
• Extensive experience of engineering and continuous integration and delivery CI/CD practices and tools like Jenkins, Pipeline as code, Concourse.
• Working with application teams to build, maintain, and document through Confluence the Development, Testing, Staging, and Production environments.
• Strong understanding and practical working knowledge of Unix Shell Scripting, AWS, Java, Python, Jenkins, Git and Docker.
• Experience with seamless/automated build scripts used for release management across all environments
• Use expertise in AWS and Azure clouds to develop new and migrate existing tooling
• Responsible for ongoing maintenance and evaluation of our monitoring platforms
• Perform analysis, design, development, and configuration functions (includes defining technical requirements) with a high degree of accuracy and speed.
• Monitor and examine all application, performance, event, and system logs to assist in troubleshooting
• Aid in planning our datacenters system expansion.
• Extensive experience working with Infrastructure as Code (AWS Cloud Formation Templates, Azure ARM templates).
• Proven experience with managing AWS RDS and Azure PaaS databases and services like Redis , Service Bus .
• Proven hands-on experience with two or more databases- SQL , PostgreSQL , MySQL , MongoDB
• Experience with Terraform or Cloud Formation YAML scripting.
• Proficient understanding of container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong know-how of operating systems such as Windows & Linux

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Bachelor’s or JD Degree or relevant equivalent experience
• 3+ years of relevant experience with different cloud technologies especially AWS or Microsoft Azure experience
• Working knowledge of both relational and non-relational databases
• Experience with APM monitoring tools
• Hands on experience with Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools and processes like Jenkins.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are required
• Maintain key service level agreements (SLAs).
• Understanding of Networking Technologies like Load balancer, Firewall, VIP, DNS.
• Provide guidance and direction to regarding DevOps Processes and Technical/Pipeline Standards.

Ideal candidates will be familiar with the following subjects/technology: Agile Methodology | PowerShell | Active Directory Domain Services | SQL Database backups, restores, and monitoring | Network Security | ELK Stack | Azure DevOps Services