DevOps Engineer

As a national leader in rewards programs and loyalty solutions, KickBack develops business solutions that make retail operators smarter, more profitable and helps to elevate their entire organization to learn how to anticipate the growing needs of their customers. With more than 15 years of experience, we’re recognized as the market leader in building rewarding customer experiences that generate brand loyalty, build repeat store visits and increase bottom line sales.

* Manage AWS Environments. * Manage Hardware environments (SAN, VMWare, etc.) * Manage our core switching and routing infrastructure. * Manage the creation of development, staging and production environments. * Automate configuration management and deployments. KRS uses modern tools: Chef, Docker, Terraform, Vagrant and AWS. * Design and set up automated monitoring of production software. * Troubleshoot production software issues. * Design, setup and write scripts for automated acceptance tests of deployment scripts. * Manage continuous build server. * Manage persistence layers (MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL.) * Provide technical leadership and system engineering innovation to manage, scale, and continuously improve large-scale distributed computing solutions * Maintain and optimize backup systems. * Test and verify backup systems and Disaster Recovery implementations. * Implement and maintain a monitoring platform to analyze traffic patterns, systems availability and key business metrics. * Promote systems and network security. * Develop custom tools and automate processes. * Document system design and procedures. * 24x7 on call rotation for production server support.

KickBack Rewards Systems (KRS) is hiring for our DevOps Engineering team. KickBack is looking for a technical leader with proficiencies in DevOps tooling, network administration and, Linux server administration. This is a full-time staff position. KRS will not consider outsourced or software development contracts. * 2+ years of experience in Linux server administration. * Skilled with Linux/Unix standard services (Nginx, Apache, HAProxy, DNS, etc.) * Expert in using modern code control tools (git) * Solid understanding of fundamental protocols and technologies like TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, and DNS. * Strong Unix/Linux knowledge of system, shell and platform tools * AWS services experience and competence for S3, EC2, VPC using Console and standard tools. * Competent programming skills in at-least one of Python, Ruby, C and Shell scripting. * Competence with deployment automation script creation and usage with AWS and various container environments (e.g. Docker, Chef, Vagrant, AWS Cloud formation.) * Manage development systems like build server, code repository, etc. * Strong networking skills * Excellent communication skills