Senior DevOps Engineer at Coconut Software

Senior DevOps Engineers at Coconut Software act as the technical leads for projects by creating solutions that keep us at the top of our infrastructure game. In joining our growing team, the Senior DevOps Engineer will be an integral part of site reliability at Coconut. They will be responsible for evolving our infrastructure, improving Stability and Performance, optimizing resource allocation, and bringing innovation to the CI/CD pipeline. Security is at the heart of our culture and the Senior DevOps Engineer will document and practice the highest security standards. This role is perfect for a self-starter who is keen to operate with minimal supervision to deliver key initiatives.

We don’t expect people to fit into neat little boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic people who are driven by a need for continuous learning and growth. We are excited to continue to scale on our path to success by building a diverse and inclusive team. We’re pretty passionate about what we do, and we’re looking for people as passionate about their work as we are! 

• Work within a team of like-minded professionals to plan, deploy, and maintain critical business applications
• Lead through mentorship while elevating junior and intermediate team members
• Develop and maintain our Kubernetes cluster
• Lead reliability projects and provide guidance for the team’s initiatives
• Support implementation of continuous deployment through cloud solutions
• Understand how IT operations are managed, identify recurring issues, and work with IT & Business partners to remediate using the problem management process
• Utilize various open source technologies
• Use various tools to orchestrate innovative solutions
• Build independent web based tools, microservices and solutions
• Write scripts and automation using Perl/Python/Groovy/Java/Bash
• Configure and manage data sources like MySQL
• Manage source control including SVN and GIT

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent working experience 
• Expert understanding of DevOps engineering best practices
• 5+ years of hands-on experience as an SRE or DevOps Engineer 
• 3+ years cloud networking experience and working in a DevOps environment
• Experience in building Cloud Native web applications in AWS
• Strong proficiency in Terraform
• Extensive experience with:
• Implementing and managing Kubernetes
• Cloud infrastructure
• CI/CD
• Fluency in the use of monitoring tools
• Strong background in Linux / Unix Administration 
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services to improve the continuous deployment process
• A solid understanding of code and script (PHP, Python, Perl and/or Ruby) 
• Have working experience with server architecture, DNS, ipv4/ipv6, acl
• MariaDB and Redis management
• Strong critical thinker with problem solving aptitude
• Excellent communication skills, both in verbal and written correspondence
• Bonus if you have Financial Industry experience or knowledge