SparkCognition’s Professional Services team is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, deliver and support machine-learning solution infrastructure for both SparkCognition and its customers. You will work with management to define requirements and take the lead on operational and customer-facing technical projects. We are looking for someone who can come in and immediately make an impact helping guide, through hands-on mentorship, DevOps engineers in best practices and architectural design while communicating with customers effectively.

Responsibilities

• Architect and continuously improve the infrastructure for cloud-based services and client interfaces
• Collaborate with team leads and management across the company to define shared capabilities
• Manage the day-to-day operations of our build, testing, and continuous integration environment
• Work with customer IT staff and cloud architects to build & maintain customer-hosted environments
• Implement best practices for always-up, always-available services
• Proactively communicate project & task status to project stakeholders
• Occasional on-call support and customer meetings which may include irregular hours as needed
• Lead and mentor DevOps engineers

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development or DevOps experience (full life-cycle object-oriented development a plus)
• Must have strong communication skills and be able to interact with clients
• Must have a strong background in Linux/Unix Administration
• Must have experience with automation/configuration management using either Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform or an equivalent
• Must have proven experience managing multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced work environment
• Must have extensive experience with production cloud environments on AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Must have strong experience with at least one programming language: Bash, Python, C#, Java
• Must have experience with development operations of continuous integration, automated testing, and automation of the dev process
• Experience designing and rolling out scalable infrastructure using container orchestration systems like Kubernetes
• Strong experience with relational databases / SQL queries as well as NoSQL databases is a plus
• Experience in monitoring, metrics collection, and reporting using open-source tools is a plus