DevOps Engineer
Chicago, IL

Job Description

FreeWheel, A Comcast Company, comprised of FreeWheel Publishers, FreeWheel Markets, and FreeWheel Advertisers empowers all segments of The New TV Ecosystem. We are structured to provide the full breadth of solutions the advertising industry needs to achieve their goals. We power the technology, data enablement, and convergent marketplaces required to ensure buyers and sellers can transact across all screens, across all data types, and all sales channels, in order to ensure the ultimate goal results for marketers. With offices in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Paris, Beijing, and across the globe, FreeWheel, A Comcast Company, stands to advocate for the entire industry through the FreeWheel Council for Premium Video.

DevOps Engineer

Summary

DevOps Engineer will further automate and enhance our deployments, CI, and general tooling as part of our SaaS cloud-based offering. DevOps Engineer will be responsible for running the fleet of servers, both on-premises and in the cloud, in the US, UK and Singapore. Our DevOps process includes the automation (via NodeJS, PowerShell, and MSBuild) of core development life-cycle tools such as Git, Jenkins, Web Deploy, Visual Studio, IIS, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and SQL Server to make sure that everything is reliable, scalable, and repeatable.

Essential Functions

Working with our existing DevOps team and with lead engineers, the DevOps Engineer is responsible for automation, proactive monitoring, and generally making sure everything is as slick as we can make it. Other duties as assigned.

Job Knowledge, skills and abilities and Other (KSAO's)

A successful DevOps Engineer candidate must have the following experience or skills:

* Provisioning and automating resources in public cloud providers (Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure)
* Managing and working with CI/CD systems (Jenkins, AppVeyor, TravisCI, or equivalent Jenkins is ideal)
* Administering machines and services on the Microsoft stack (Windows Server, IIS, SQL Server)
* Distributed Version Source Control systems (GitHub, GitLab, or equivalent)
* Automation scripting using NodeJS, PowerShell, NuGet, Chocolatey, MSBuild, Groovy, Bash, etc. (CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, Docker, and Kubernetes are all a bonus)
* Application monitoring (Stackify, NewRelic, PingDom, PagerDuty, etc.)
* Working knowledge of .NET Framework and developing in C#
* Excellent problem-solving skills and attitude
* High standards for code quality and testing
* Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company's success
* Interpersonal and communication skills

Supervisory responsibilities

The DevOps Engineer will have no supervisory responsibilities, but must function well within project teams, working with Product Managers, tech leads, and other team members.

Minimum qualifications and requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field

* 5 years of related experience
* Experience with C#, JavaScript or QA automation tools (such as Selenium, Postman, or TestComplete) to help make our automated testing even better is a plus.

Benefits

As well as working in a fun, friendly and focused environment that is challenging and rewarding on a daily basis, you will also get:

* Health/Rx/Dental/Vision Insurance
* Virtual Doctor Visits
* Short-Term/Long-Term Disability
* Paid Family Leave
* Wellness Programs
* 401(k) match up to 6%
* Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
* Health & Dependent Care FSA
* Commuter Benefits
* Tuition Reimbursement
* Comcast Courtesy Services within the Comcast footprint
* Free beverages, snacks, coffee, game room, as well as social and community events;
* Access to training platforms such as Pluralsight, Lynda.com and career development programs
* Assemble a team and participate in our Innovation days, where everyone is given free rein to build something that will awe the entire company;
* And many more!

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