DevOps Administrator
Denver, CO

Job Description

Title: DevOps Administrator

Location: Denver, CO

Job Type: Full-time

Education: 4-year College Degree

Experience: 5 years

Travel required: 5%

Compensation: Market salary; incentive stock options; generous healthcare and other benefits

Reports to: Director of Operations

Job Description

TrackVia is seeking a DevOps Administrator to help design, build and maintain our operational infrastructure. You'll be responsible for a dynamic, heavily automated, rapidly growing cloud-based infrastructure supporting tens of thousands of applications created by thousands of our customers. You'll be working with a team of strong engineers and the most modern technologies.

Our DevOps team thrives on automating processes and incorporating high-availability thinking into every step. We build with a goal of zero downtime, and automate everything from builds to tests to deploys to monitoring. We leverage cloud automation tools extensively to create a highly optimized pipeline from development through to production.

The ideal individual has 4+ years of experience in Linux administration, exposure to AWS or other public clouds, strong analytical skills and technical skills, as well as the ability to interact with senior leadership and thrive in a fast-paced startup. You will be a senior technologist within the team, responsible for both design and development as well as operations of our critical infrastructure.

Responsibilities

* Establish environments from build out through production operation
* Proactively monitor system health and performance (Datadog, Sumo)
* Maintain 99.999% uptime of Trackvia Environments
* Administer Linux OS (Amazon Linux)
* Develop and maintain strong OS and network security practices (SOC & HIPAA Compliance)
* Manage backups, restores, and DR for servers, applications, and databases
* Assist with MySQL administration (AWS Aurora)
* Develop and maintain system configurations (bash, Puppet, others)
* Manage hosted environments using AWS
* Setup and maintain environments for dev, qa, and production
* Participate in a 24×7 on call rotation
* Create and maintain related documentation
* Maintain corporate network (LAN, firewall, VPN)

Required Skills

* 4 year college degree is required
* Strong Linux administration (RedHat)
* Strong scripting skills (BASH, Python, PHP…)
* Strong TCP/IP skills
* Expert knowledge of deployment software (Jenkins,Puppet, CircleCI,...)
* Knowledge of version control systems (Git)
* Experience working with and developers and customer support teams
* Strong analytical and problem solving skills
* Experience with Docker containers and container management
* Excellent written communications: clarity, brevity, grammar
* Excellent verbal communications: articulateness, patience, listening skills
* Professionalism: promptness, attention to detail, organization
* 3+ years experience in a devops environment, preferably in a production web environment.

Preferred Skills

* Experience with MySQL is a plus
* Experience Python
* Experience using puppet
* Experience using git.
* Experience using Jenkins.
* Experience administering Apache and Nginx
* AWS experience including VPC, EC2, Route 53, S3, Cloudfront, and RDS

TrackVia Overview

Founded in 2006, TrackVia is a privately held company based in the mile high city of Denver, CO. We have nearly 15 thousand active users in 14 countries who have built nearly 6,000 custom TrackVia applications for everything from department-level apps to highly customized apps for vertical industries. TrackVia is used by businesses large and small and consistently earns accolades for its unmatched customer support.

Our simple and sole reason for being is to help non-technical business users create applications that work the way they do - and better address their unique, individual needs. And nothing excites us more than working with and talking to our customers.