Overview

Responsibilities include:

• Define high-performance, high-availability, secure software and virtual/cloud infrastructure for Silverrail’s products.
• Design and implement the deployment of our product to the virtual/cloud infrastructure achieving reliable, 0-down-time deployments, upgrades, recover, roll-backs.
• Be a full-fledged member of both the DevOps and Operations teams to ensure that systems and operational processes are efficient, agile and flexible, while aligning with DevOps best practices.
• Assess, design, sponsor and prototype the adoption and deployment of state-of-the-art systems/operational tools for a next generation Data Center e.g. monitoring, alerting, backups, disaster recovery, high availability
• Monitor and assess performance bottlenecks, at all tiers, web, application and data; drive optimizations and solutions.

Requirements:

• BSCS or equivalent is highly desirable
• The candidate must have a working knowledge of high quality software development and best practices e.g. continuous integration, Agile etc. Experience with one or more software domain viz. Enterprise Java, Ruby, .NET etc. is required.
• Must have deep familiarity with UNIX, especially Linux. Must be fluent with UNIX scripting and one or more modern scripting/integration languages like Python, Groovy, Ruby.
• Must have some experience with cloud and/or data-center automation e.g. with modern deployment frameworks like Chef/Puppet/Ansible or similar
• Must have participated in the assessment, selection and deployment of modern operational data-center technologies e.g. firewalls, logging, monitoring etc.
• Must demonstrate a working knowledge of data-center design for security. Familiarity with the technical aspects of security auditing, firewalls, compliance (e.g. PCI/PII) is highly desired.
• Familiarity with the set-up of some cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS, Openstack/Xen) is required.
• Experience designing for, and deploying highly scalable web and/or Enterprise applications is required.
• Experience designing and building high transaction applications is highly desired.
• The candidate must have a working knowledge of Networking. Familiarity with the basics of networks/switches/routers/load-balancers/VLANs etc. is required.