DevOps Engineer

AppNeta is the only application performance monitoring (APM) company to provide solutions for all applications - applications you develop internally, business-critical SaaS applications you use and the networks that deliver them.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to help drive the evolution of AppNeta's cloud-based platform. Our ideal candidate is a curious, pragmatic self-starter who excels at learning, planning, teaching, and executing in a fast-paced environment. You derive a deep satisfaction from developing elegant and robust automated systems that free human beings from the tyranny of manual grunt work. Join our dynamic team and make things better every day in an atmosphere that encourages innovation and personal growth. Along the way, you’ll work with seriously smart people, and ensure the timely delivery of products which solve problems for teams like yours. You will never be bored. If you're intrigued, please apply!

* Work closely with engineers to rapidly evolve AppNeta's build pipelines and cloud-hosted products * Build, document, and maintain deployment and monitoring systems * Design, implement, and maintain capacity testing systems * Participate in weekly on-call rotation for production systems support

* Computer Science degree or equivalent experience * 3+ years in an operations-related role * Strong communication skills, with a passion for sharing and exploring ideas * Proven ability to manage competing priorities * Familiarity with distributed systems principles * Strong familiarity with cloud-based operations best practices * Strong familiarity with the Amazon Web Services platform (particularly compute, networking, storage, and stream processing services) * Strong familiarity with Linux environments * Experience with build/CI tools (e.g. Jenkins) * Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Chef) * Experience with infrastructure management/orchestration tooling (e.g. CloudFormation, Terraform, Rundeck, Asgard) * Experience with a variety of monitoring tools and platforms (e.g. Graphite, collectd, Nagios/Icinga, ELK stack, CloudWatch, Splunk) * Experience with bash, [your favourite interpreted language here, e.g. Python], and Git for source control **Bonus points:** * Experience with Python, C/C++, Go, Java, Ruby, or any other language(s) * Experience with service discovery (e.g. Consul, SmartStack) * Experience with virtualized and containerized environments (e.g. vSphere, Docker) * Experience with IDS or SIEM systems * Familiarity with switching, routing, and firewalls * You understand the heart of DevOps is empathy * You once instrumented a household appliance with statsd