DevOps Engineer

Created by hospitality operators for hospitality operators, Avero is the trusted technology partner for the hospitality industry. We empower 40,000+ hospitality professionals with the answers they need to transform their businesses and their lives, getting them out of the back office and into the kitchen with their staff, onto the floor with their guests, and at home with their families. 

Position Overview

Avero is currently looking for a DevOps Engineer for our Product Operations team who will be responsible for working collaboratively with the engineering team to deploy and operate our systems. Your primary focus will be to automate and streamline operations and processes, build, and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring, and operations, and troubleshoot and resolveissues in our dev, staging and production environments. Candidates must demonstrate strong technical knowledge with a passion for service. This is a 100% remote role reporting to Avero’sDirector of Engineering and working closely with the Director of IT. 

Our Product Operations team maintainsboth our cloud-based and on-premises infrastructure that provides the foundation for allAvero’s products. The team leverages the latest cutting-edge technologies to provide high availability and high performing systems for the engineering team. They followthe Everything-as-Code philosophy to create a stable, robust, and dynamic infrastructure that can adapt quickly to emerging technology trends.

Who You Are

• An experienced DevOps Engineer who enjoys working within and nurturing highly collaborative remote-first teams and organizations. 
• Team player with a positive attitude and the ability to interact effectively with your staff at all levels of the organization.
• An outstanding communicator who can help translate technical concepts and concerns to non-technical stakeholders. 
• A strong individual contributor who can lead by example. 
• A steward of code, systems, documentation, and processes. 

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure (as code) including, but not limited to,the following: 
•   Compute – EC2, ECS, Lambda 
• Storage – S3, EFS, Glacier, Storage Gateway 
• Database – RDS, RedShift 
• Networking – VPC, Route 53 
• Management – CloudWatch, Auto Scaling 
• Analytics – EMR, Elasticsearch 
• Security – IAM, Certificate Manager 
• Application Integration/Messaging – SES, SNS, SQS 
• Support on-premises hardware and software infrastructure including, but not limited to, the following: 
•   FTP/FTPS/SFTP Servers 
• HTTP Servers – Apache, Tomcat 
• Oracle Enterprise Database 
• Oracle WebLogic 
• SAP Business Objects 
• Build and maintain custom solutions including, but not limited to, the following: 
•  Custom HTTP file servers 
• Internal APIs 
• Data warehouse loading and maintenance scripts 
• Custom monitoring and alerting solutions 
• Support of migration of on-premises monolithic application infrastructure to cloud-based microservices 
• Design and implement monitoring and alerting systems 
• Explore, implement, and test new technologies
• Participate in on-call pager rotation 
• Champion operational excellence, actively participating in the process of development and continuous improvement 
• Provide technical support to your team members, take ownership of your work, and always be learning 
• Participate in code reviews, defining and refining your team’s process 

What You'll Need

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps and/or Systems Administration 
• Strong understanding of the core concepts of DevOps, microservices, systems administration, and monitoring/alerting 
• Required experience with the below: 
•   Languages – Python, Java, Shell Scripting 
• Infrastructure Tools – Terraform, Chef 
• Container Infrastructure – Docker and Docker Compose, ECS 
• Databases – MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server 
• Elastic Stack – Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana 
• Source Control – Git and Bitbucket 
• Linux administration (Ubuntu, Fedora, and/or Amazon Linux) 
• You do notneed to be an expert in everything but should have a significant overlap with our existing technology stack. We can help you ramp up where there are gaps. 
•  Languages – Groovy, Perl 
• Build tools – Maven, Ant, Gradle 
• Infrastructure Tools – Packer, CloudFormation 
• Databases – Oracle, RedShift 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Experience working within remote or geographically distributed teams is preferable and a strong commitment to collaboration in a remote-first environment 

Why You'll Love Working Here

• Competitive compensation, coupled with an emphasis on work/life balance. 
• Employer-sponsored benefits package including Health, Dental and Vision insurance. 
• We are a remote employer! 
• Health Savings Account with contributions from Avero quarterly!
• Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts 
• Company Paid Disability, Life Insurance and AD&D 
• Commuter Benefits (for those in NYC!) 
• 401k and Company Match 
• Parental Leave 
• ClassPass Discounts 
• Equity in the company – all employees have a stake in our growth! 

Disclaimers 

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of employees so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. 

Please note that this is a remote position and the candidate/candidates and are only being considered for those individuals located in the following areas: New York, New Jersey, Colorado, Texas, Nevada, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Florida, Massachusetts, Oregon, Kansas, Wisconsin, Utah, California, and Tennessee. 

For Colorado* based candidates - The range of our base salary cash compensation for this role for candidates living in Colorado is between $1115,000 and $120,000. Final offers are determined using multiple factors including experience and level of expertise. We also offer a full robust benefits package. Because Avero's base compensation is driven by location, we will be happy to discuss a salary range for other locations during the interview process.

Please note that we are only able to hire permanent residents (green card holders) or U.S. citizens at this time. 

Avero is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. If this role would make you excited to come to work every day, please apply! We look forward to connecting. 

Avero is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. If this role would make you excited to come to work every day, please apply! We look forward to connecting.