DevOps Engineer

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Automate operational activities and tasks.
• Develop complex build/deployment systems including CI/CD pipelines.
• Provide expertise to help developers/test engineers to execute software releases, configuration updates, and other release requirements.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call support and perform occasional after-hours support.
• Maintain the health of cloud-based production environments through monitoring and typical daily administration duties.
• Respond to performance issues identified by alerting and other reported incidents.
• Utilize a variety of tools, techniques, and procedures to resolve problems.
• Provide support to developers and testers.
• Understand new, emerging technologies and implement them.
• Evaluates business requirements to identify potential software, hardware, and system architectures to be employed to meet business objectives.
• Performs research on emerging technologies to support proofs-of-concept (POCs) and identify future solutions for the organization.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• 5 years of professional work experience.
• 3 years in DevOps/Developer role experience.
• Implemented and maintained CI/CD pipelines with industry-standard tools.
• Cloud experience (Google/GCP, AWS, and IaC - Terraform.)
• Experience with containers (Docker.)
• Experience troubleshoot and monitor distributed systems in Development and Production environments.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIREMENTS

• Familiarity with project tracking software and writing wiki documentation (Jira, Confluence)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to develop solutions with scripting languages (JavaScript, PHP, Python, Shell scripting) and 1 high-level language (C, C++, Java, Golang)
• Strong understanding of system and networking concepts and troubleshooting techniques.
• Fluency with DevOps concepts, e.g., deployment processes, microservices, serverless architectures
• Familiarity with monitoring requirements and building dashboards.
• Familiar with best practices for infrastructure security, reliability, and fault tolerance
• Clear communication of complex concepts and troubleshooting steps is required
• Knowledge of CDN’s, DNS, web servers, and other supporting Internet services
• Extremely comfortable with Linux especially the ability to navigate CLI
• Comfortable working with Git / Bitbucket
• Technical Bachelor’s degree (Engineering, Math, Science, etc.)

BENEFITS AND PERKS

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• 401(k) Match
• Generous PTO
• Market Money
• Earn a Mattress
• Purple Swag
• Amazing Purple Products

WHY WORK AT PURPLE?

- Make your mark: We value innovative thinking. At Purple, you will be empowered to bring your ideas to life as we work together to improve people’s lives through comfort. - Gain unique experience: Be a part of one of the fastest-growing companies in Utah! The contributions you make will matter at Purple as the company continues to grow with you. **- Awesome culture: **Join the tight-knit team at Purple and you can enjoy working alongside industry experts, making close friends, and annual employee appreciation events.

Purple provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.