Senior DevOps Engineer

Alibaba is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help us improve and expand our rapidly-growing products.


Responsibilities:

• Work within a team of like-minded professionals to plan, deploy, and maintain business critical applications.
• Consult and Advocate Development teams and broader Engineering groups in adopting DevOps best practices.
• Make legacy applications 12 factor and Cloud Native Ready.
• Automate the provisioning and upgrade and maintenance of DevOps Managed Services (Less Toil = More Happiness)
• Troubleshoot problems, involving the appropriate resources and driving resolution of issues with a focus on minimizing impact to our customers.
• Participate in the Agile DevOps design, development, testing, and release of new capabilities and features with focus on release and post-production support.
• Provide production support for the suite of apps in the domain in Agile stand-ups, planning sessions and deployment activities.
• Participate in On-Call rotation
• Identify recurring issues and work with IT & Business partners to remediate using the problem management process.

Requirements

• Strong background in Linux/Unix and Windows server Administration
• Strong TCP/IP knowledge
• Expertise with containers and container orchestration technologies, including Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes
• Experience with automation/configuration management using Ansible or puppet
• Scripting Skills with at least one language (Bash, PowerShell, Python, Perl and/or Ruby)
• Knowledge of at least one programming language (.NET, Node.js, Go)
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
• CI/CD implementation with Gitlab
• Expertise with Key-Value and NoSQL solutions (Redis, MongoDB)
• Expertise with Relational Database solutions (MSSQL, PSQL)
• Experience with continuous monitoring using Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana ELK, EFK
• Experienced in web servers and load balancers (Nginx, HAproxy)
• Experience with messaging pub/sub systems (RabbitMQ, Active-MQ, Kafka etc.)
• Good Knowledge of Virtualization especially KVM
• Good Knowledge of Git/GitFlow
• Excellent troubleshooting capabilities and an ability to quickly learn new technologies

Big Plus Skills:

• Good Knowledge of Service Mesh implementation
• Experience with Hadoop ecosystem
• Experience with OWASP concept
• Prior Production Experience with Rancher
• Experience with Spinnaker