The DevOps Engineer will work side by side with the engineering, development, and platform teams and be primarily responsible for automation for the administration of our hybrid cloud services. The individual will bridge the gap between development, operations and infrastructure. This role will help facilitate tasks needed to keep the product delivery, availability, and performance optimum. 

Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Designing, developing, implementing and supporting Unix systems including solid scripting skills in Shell, PHP, Perl, Ruby or Python.
• Ability to lead efforts in automation, continuous deployment, and configuration management.
• Successful Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment platform implementations with products such as Jenkins.
• Configuration management using Ansible, Chef or Puppet on Windows and Linux.
• Working experience with JIRA and Confluence project agile tracking documenting tools.
• Ability to understand and apply the knowledge of operating systems, application security configurations, and best practices in Windows and UNIX environment as well as IP networking, network analysis, performance and application issues using standard tools like tcpdump
• Ability to take the initiative to pursue assignments, responsibilities, and support requests to a logical and final solution and to employ SDLC standards is required.
• Ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests.

Major Responsibilities: 

• Lead efforts in automation, continuous deployment, and configuration management.
• Manage availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of VIPRE services by engineering reliability into software and systems
• Manage and maintain the primary customer-facing application environment.
• Actively participate in Engineering Scrum and design meetings to drive quality releases.
• Respond to and resolve emergent service problems and build automation tools to prevent problem recurrence
• Participate in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning
• Work with configuration system and infrastructure management.
• Monitor applications with Application Performance Monitoring tools.
• Code in one or more of several popular programming languages.
• Produce and maintain documentation on installations, incidents, and procedures requirements for systems.
• Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for operating services and systems.
• Research new promising technologies, strategies, and ways to solve technical issues.
• Work across IT functions and collaborate effectively to deliver complete technical solutions.
• Perform ad hoc responsibilities as needed.

Education and/or Certification Requirements:

• BA/BS in CS or related field, or equivalent experience

Required Skills:

• Minimum 5 years hands-on experience in designing, developing implementing and supporting Unix systems including solid scripting skills in Shell, PHP, Perl, Ruby or Python.
• Successful Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment platform implementations with products such as Jenkins.
• Configuration management using Ansible, Chef or Puppet on Windows and Linux.
• Working experience with JIRA and Confluence project agile tracking documenting tools.
• Understanding of operating systems, application security configurations, and best practices in Windows and UNIX environment is required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to take the initiative to pursue assignments, responsibilities, and support requests to a logical and final solution and to employ SDLC standards is required.
• Knowledge of IP networking, network analysis, performance and application issues using standard tools like tcpdump
• Ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests
• A good team player with excellent prioritization skills, especially when under pressure
• Able to meet target dates that have been committed to by management
• Passion for emerging technology and customer-focused innovation
• Ability to quickly adapt and work well with various team functions and personality types

 All prospective employees must pass a background check.

VIPRE Security is an AA/EOE/Vets/Disabled employer.