DevOps Administrator – Boston

Working closely with product, delivery and client support to deploy their hosted solution, the DevOps Administrator will be part of a team that is responsible for the day-to-day development, support and deployment of their solution to development and production platforms.

These are the expectations that they have of a successful and accomplished DevOps Administrator:

1. Understanding of cloud deployment methodologies and their accompanying software development life cycles
2. Strong background in Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting
3. Strong experience with database administration, troubleshooting and tuning (MySQL, Mongo)
4. Experience with data retention management
5. Experience with data transmission and storage
6. Experience with disaster recovery and failover
7. Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services
8. A working understanding of code and script (PHP, Python, Perl and/or Ruby)
9. Experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef or an equivalent is preferred
10. Knowledge of best practices and IT operations
11. Excellent end user and customer support

They are looking for a candidate with at least 5 years of experience in the following technologies:

1. Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university and/or related experience
2. Experience with Red Hat and CentOS flavors of the Linux operating system
3. Experience with VMware virtualization technologies
4. Experience with AWS instances and VPCs
5. Patch management techniques for servers and clients
6. Excellent time management, communication, writing and customer service skills
7. Excellent analytical, troubleshooting and decision-making skills
8. Management of third-party vendors
9. Experience with Atlassian products, a plus
10. Good understanding of networking and security principles