Who is Surge?
Surge is an onshore provider of custom web, cloud, mobile, digital, and desktop software development and consulting services to clients in every industry, from hot startups to Fortune 500 companies.
Founded in 2007 and listed on the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest growing companies for six straight years, Surge has successfully delivered hundreds of software products, apps, and solutions to its clients using a proven agile/scrum development process combined with an elite group of North American software professionals.
About Surge – a Catalyte company
Surge – a Catalyte company’s highly vetted network of onshore software engineering resources quickly integrates into your organization to help you address immediate and continuing initiatives. With no minimum term or commitment, you have the flexibility to scale up/down on demand. Our qualified engineers, QA specialists, project managers, UI/UX experts and full agile teams are ready to start immediately.
Responsibilities:
- Create cloud-based infrastructure using tools like Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker
- Enhance and maintain Continuous Delivery and Continuous Delivery pipelines (CI/CD)
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code pipelines to support our production and redundant environment
- Establish standards for infrastructure testing and deployment mechanisms
- Automate and optimize processes, using tools like Jenkins, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, Packer and Terraform
- Assist in the design and implementation of agile SaaS infrastructure, automated environment provisioning and automated deployment and monitoring of multiple environments.
- Pair with development and QA teams to enable a continuous integration environment that sustains high productivity levels and emphasizes defect prevention techniques.
- Work with cross-functional business teams to understand requirements and other performance SLAs
- Thoroughly document operational practices and procedures.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, test and production instances.
- Participate in other projects and duties as assigned.
- Experience with relational databases is a plus (PostgreSQL, MSSQL)
- Automating our operational processes as needed, with accuracy and in compliance with our Cyber Security standards
Requirements:
- We are looking for ambitious individuals with a history of high achievement and the desire to work in a fast-paced environment with peers who challenge them to be better
- BS in Computer Science or related field required, years of equivalent work experience may be substituted. Master’s degree preferred.
- 5+ years of work experience
- Expertise with the AWS ecosystem using products such as EC2, RDS, S3, ELB and familiarity interacting with the AWS APIs
- Expertise in IaC tools like Terraform and Packer
- Familiarity with continuous integration, testing and deployment. Experience with tools like Jenkins, Bamboo CI, Docker, etc.
- Familiarity with software development lifecycle. Experience with version management and ticketing systems such as Git and Jira.
- Experience with monitoring, metrics, and visualization with tools like New Relic, Zenoss, Sensu, Nagios, Graphite, Collectd, Ganglia, etc.
- Experience with RDBMS (e.g. MySQL or Postgres).
- Proficient in high-level scripting languages such as Ruby or Python and script environments like Bash
- Hands on coding and familiarity required with skills in RESTful web services, JSON and XML.
- Able and willing to work in a team environment and adopt a culture of ownership and initiative, and promote such within the team.
- Able and willing to work independently and in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines, with minimal supervision
- Excellent interpersonal skills, as well as excellent communication skills, verbal and written to both technical and non-technical audiences that are in a geographically dispersed environment
Additional Preferred Qualifications:
- Cloud certifications (AWS CSA, DevOps, Azure)
- Experience with Docker containers and orchestration platforms such as ECS, Kubernetes/Rancher, Mesos and/or Swarm
- Experience with performance optimizations such as improving scalability, availability, throughput, failover, etc.
- Experience including software development, Unix systems administration, and cloud-based application management
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
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Work Location: Remote