Cloud Operations Engineer

Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia is positioned as a market leader by the analyst community and is listed as one of the world’s top software companies by The Software Report. We are Acquia. We are a global company with employees located in more than 30 countries, and we’re building for the future. We want you to be a part of it!

The Cloud Operations Engineer is responsible for designing and delivering secure and highly available solutions. You will be a critical part of a team focused on ensuring our services are ready and stress tested. You should be comfortable taking on new challenges, defining potential solutions and implementing designs in a team environment. You will be working on a tech stack composed of Linux, Kubernetes, PHP, Java, MySQL, Kafka, Jenkins, Github and AWS/GCP.

What You Will Accomplish

• The Cloud Operations Engineer partners closely with Engineering and Support. We are responsible for the deployment, and continuous operation of the Acquia platform. 
• You will make sure we automate as many tasks as possible to make diagnostics, scaling, healing and deployments a breeze.
• You will work on a team responsible for a blend of architecture, automation, development, and application administration.
• You will develop and deploy solutions from the infrastructure, to the network, and application layers, on public cloud platforms.
• You will ensure our SaaS platform is available and performing, and that we can notice problems before our customers.
• You will collaborate with Support and Engineering on customer issues, as needed.
• Working with distributed data infrastructure, including containerization and virtualization tools, to enable unified engineering and production environments;
• Developing dashboards, monitors, and alerts to increase situational awareness of the state of our production issues/sla/security incidents.
• Independently conceiving and implementing ways to improve development efficiency, code reliability, and test fidelity.
• You will participate in a periodic on-call rotation

Qualifications 

• Proficient in Unix/Linux OS administration
• Proficient with network setup and debugging
• Proficient with at least one scripting language (Bash, Python, PHP, …)
• Proficient knowledge with public cloud providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure
• Understands Kubernetes
• Understands application containerization
• Basic understanding of SQL and relational database administration (MySQL)
• A Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or experience in software engineering or a related field

Desire 

• Best practices in infosec
• The ability to dig deep into infrastructure and code to solve problems
• The drive to solve traditional operations problems through automation
• High attention to detail

Required Experience

• Hands-on Linux knowledge: 1-3 years
• Scripting: 1+ years
• DevOps and/or build & release experience including delivery: 0-1 years
• Software Configuration Management tools: 0-1 years
• DB/Data Platforms: Aurora/Mysql/RDS: 0-1 years
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerization: 0-1 year

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.