DevOps Engineer (Remote, US Only)

In a world where it’s never been harder for brands to capture and keep customers, experience is everything. An independent, global marketing agency, Ansira believes designing relevant, persuasive experiences for all the right moments is the only way to strengthen relationships, cultivate brand loyalists, and assure profitable growth. That’s why Ansira arms brands and their sales partners with solutions to make those experiences possible: strategy, performance marketing, loyalty marketing, martech consulting and integration, channel partner marketing, and local marketing activation. For more information, visit Ansira.com or LinkedIn. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible to ensure application availability, working cross functional with both software engineering and infrastructure teams to establishing cloud environment readiness while following best practices of cloud administration. This candidate will have solid hands-on experience in operating and maintaining multiple production applications. This position requires strong technical & organizational skills, attention to detail, and excellent communications skills. The successful candidate must be a team player and will have a significant impact in driving Ansira’s goals of cloud delivery and the ongoing gold standard support Ansira provides to our clients. What you will do: • Create and maintain CI/CD pipeline infrastructure. • Empower development teams to do self-service deployments. • Provide ways for developers to build, test, store, and deploy high quality software to our customers. • Reduce the total cost of ownership by making wise use of Cloud technologies, as well as other proprietary and open-source solutions. • Keep data secure and follow security best practices. • Write code to build tools and automation. • Help manage the backlog of tasks related to feature development, developer requests, and technical debt. • Evolve and learn new DevOps skills and share knowledge with the team. • Debug tough problems using a methodical approach that minimizes risks and time invested. • Promote a respectful and productive work environment. • Teach developers how to solve problems and help themselves. • Participate in the on-call rotation and outage triage remediation. • Must be able to assist others to identify complex system problems and help restore services quickly. • Systematic problem solving a must. • Assist application monitoring and troubleshooting when application issues are detected. • Engage to triage and communicate run-time issues and support emergency responses to critical issues as they arrive. • Assist in implementation of security best practices and initiatives at all levels of the infrastructure. • Understand the interdependencies of various systems within and across applications. • Manage, prioritize, and execute multiple concurrent DevOps initiatives. • Maintain up-to-date documentation for DevOps processes and systems to streamline on-boarding of DevOps engineers. • Keep up to date with developments in technology and DevOps fields through educational and other information resources and make recommendations of possible applications for new technologies and methods. Background & Experience: • 1+ years of technical experience and steady progression in a system engineer role or information technology infrastructure support role that led to greater responsibilities and advancement. • Passion to ensure maximum uptime of production applications. • Passion for automation and process efficiency improvement. • Must possess experience maintaining, tuning, administering, supporting, and problem solving in complex application and server environments, working collaboratively with application, network and system teams to resolve problems. • Practical experience of continuous integration, continuous build, test automation • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field or equivalent years of experience. • Strong technical aptitude and problem-solving abilities allowing for consistent, high-visibility, tactical success with constant focus on customer satisfaction. • Strong technical knowledge with 1+ years hands-on experience in the following technologies: • Next gen firewalls • F5 load balancer • Networking TCP/IP stack and troubleshooting • Windows (OS, services, registry, GPO, access controls, Domain, ect. ) • PowerShell, YAML, JSON, XML, Python or similar scripting languages • Windows IIS Services and experience troubleshooting applications running on that platform. • Linux/Tomcat/Apache based systems, and experience troubleshooting applications running on that platform. • Experience with .Net, Cold Fusion, and Java runtime platforms • Terraform, Chef, Ansible or Puppet • Docker Container’s technologies • Azure Cloud (AWS equivalent a plus) • Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences. • Must have experience working in a DevOps shop (Build, Test, Release, Deploy, Operate & Monitor). • Must have experience working with tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Docker and or Terraform. • Must have experience delivering PaaS services in public cloud. • Prior experience with Azure Repos, Azure Devops, Git, Bitbucket, TeamCity or Jenkins. • Prior experience with Public Cloud platform using Microsoft Azure and/or commercial cloud platform. • Must have excellent written and oral communications, including technical documents, and process documents. • Ability to articulate ideas clearly and concisely. We are a culture of passionate, collaborative and respectful people. We are curious about finding the most strategic solutions, while being fearless in our pursuit of pushing the limits. Apply tot his job