DevOps Engineer

The Amherst Group's companies are comprised of leading real estate investment and advisory firms with a mission to transform the way real estate is owned, financed and managed. Amherst leverages its proprietary data, analytics, technology, and decades of experience to seek solutions for a fragmented, slow-to-evolve real estate ecosystem and to materially improve the experience for residents, buyers, sellers, communities, and investors. Today Amherst has over 1000 employees and $14.1 billion in assets under management.

Over the past decade, Amherst has scaled its platform to become one of the largest operators of single-family assets and has acquired, renovated, and leased more than 46,000 homes across 32 markets in the U.S. The firm delivers customized, stabilized cash-flowing portfolios of assets to its investors, wrapped in all the ongoing services required to manage, own, and finance the asset including property management, portfolio management, and a full capital markets team. In addition to its single-family rental platform, Amherst’s debt business pursues two distinct credit strategies in mortgage-backed securities and commercial real estate lending. Over its 25-year history, Amherst has developed a deep bench of research and technology talent, and leverages data and analytics at every stage in the asset lifecycle to improve operations and preserve long-term value for our investors and the more than 188,000 residents the firm has served.

Amherst is a financial services and technology company empowering global investors to access the U.S. real estate market with unparalleled ease and scale.

Our technology platform manages thousands of homes and billions of dollars of investment capital. The data and software required to handle such an operation are diverse. We build data infrastructure and tools to buy, renovate, and manage homes at scale. We build consumer brands and apps to lease and sell homes direct-to-consumer. We design, prototype, and roll out IoT devices and smart home tech to help physically manage and solve important business operations.

As an Amherst DevOps Engineer, you will build and configure infrastructure with some of the latest technologies like Docker, Terraform, Github, and AWS. You will utilize DevOps tools like Teamcity (build) and Octopus (deploy) to support a wide variety of Javascript and .NET applications. You will work with Developers, Product Managers, Project Managers, Enterprise Application Administrators, DBAs, IT, Operations, Security, and Network Engineering colleagues to solve Amherst’s challenges.

Who You Are:

• Knowledgeable. You are a real pro and deeply understand infrastructure and SDLC.

• Intellectually Curious. You are constantly learning and working to improve yourself.

• Entrepreneurial. You enjoy wearing many hats and hustling to get things done.

• Problem Solver. You are a critical thinker who brings solutions not problems to the table.

• Hard Working.  You aren’t afraid of a tough deadline.

• Scrappy & Fast. You like finding creative ways to quickly move projects forward.

• Good Communicator. You easily explain complex technical issues to a non-technical audience.

• Team Player. You put team success first and have a high degree of personal character.

• Accountable. You take ownership and have pride in your work.

What You’ll Do:

• Application release management and Environment Management

• Build CI / CD pipelines using VCS (Github), build (TeamCity), and deployment (Octopus) tools.

• Hybrid Cloud Production environment support and administration - Windows, Linux

• Use scripting languages and tools to perform automation.

• Train technology team on best practices for build and deployment automation

• Site Reliability – Create application health monitors and configure alerts.

• Ensure appropriate security practices are implemented.

• Test and implement new technologies and tools to improve Amherst systems.

• Create and maintain documentation of new and existing processes.

What You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Computer Science (or equivalent years of experience)

• 2 years experience DevOps Engineer, Software Engineer, or System Administration

• Scripting experience (SQL/Python/PowerShell preferred)

• Experience with automating build, deployment, and maintenance tasks

• Ability to work in a complex environment with a mix of hardware, virtual, and cloud data environments.

• Participation in On-Call Rotation – Amherst has several on-call teams including DevOps for after-hours incidents. We currently experience 1-2 incidents per month.

Preferred Qualifications:

• CI / CD Pipeline management

• Infrastructure as Code (AWS, TF, Docker exp)

• Windows and Linux Administration

• Mobile Application CI / CD

• Salesforce Administration and CI / CD

• Experience with REST APIs

• Experience with .NET, NodeJS applications

​Amherst is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or veteran status, and encourage all applicants to apply.