AWS DevOps Engineer – $80k per year

Are you a talented DevOps engineer with an appetite for big challenges? If you have a passion for the latest cloud technology and strategies and you thrive in challenging environments with complex distributed systems and diverse teams you can be a part of MessageOnes success. The ideal candidate for this role will have experience in software development, systems administration, deployment automation, quality assurance, and monitoring and maintaining large scale, mission critical services with various underlying dependencies. You will engage closely with architects, engineering teams, QA, and operations teams to deliver highly available and scalable services.

Crossover is partnering with MessageOne to hire the best and brightest AWS DevOps Engineers. MessageOne. MessageOne is the leading provider of managed services for email management, archiving and business continuity. For enterprise email and wireless messaging systems, the companys Email Management Services (EMS) provides comprehensive email archiving, storage management and e-Discovery with the total continuity and recovery only available from a managed service. In addition, MessageOnes AlertFind provides guaranteed emergency notification and escalation to help companies protect their employees during any crisis or disaster. Millions of users around the world depend on MessageOne for its award-winning managed services.

Job Description This is a hands-on technical position. The ideal candidate has prior experience managing cloud based n-tier web applications and strives to solve traditional operations problems through automation and software. You must possess a high standard of excellence, solid written and verbal communication skills, have a strong customer focus, and be capable of technical deep-dives into operating systems, application performance, databases, load balancers, networks, and storage systems. You should be either a software developer with some experience and knowledge as a system administrator, or possibly a system administrator with some experience and knowledge as a programmer.

Key Responsibilities: As a MessageOne AWS DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Build solutions to problems that interrupt availability, performance, and stability in our systems, services, and products at scale.
• Perform a wide variety of technical and administrative duties in overall systems design, development, and delivery.
• Work in conjunction with IT, engineering, and business groups to understand functionality, scalability, performance, security, and integration requirements.
• Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of the application, systems, database architecture, and the general application functionality used to maintain data integrity.
• Manage the establishment and configuration of SaaS infrastructure in an agile way by storing infrastructure as code and employing automated configuration management tools with a goal to be able to re-provision environments at any point in time.
• Develop and implement instrumentation for monitoring the health and availability of services including fault detection, alerting, triage, and recovery (automated and manual).
• Be accountable for proper backup and disaster recovery procedures.
• Develop, improve, and thoroughly document operational practices and procedures.
• Drive operational cost reductions through service optimizations and demand based auto scaling.