IT DevOps Engineer

Posted Jan 21

Full Job Description

Overview:

As an IT DevOps Engineer with Certara, you are part of a global, fast-paced IT organization with the primary mission to provide capable & resilient world class technology services, software automation, and operational excellence across cloud technology platforms in service of our customers.

DevOps will span multiple technical disciplines infrastructure automation, security, building deployment pipelines, API development, log analysis, and more. We are looking for experienced technologists to help maintain, automate, and innovate within our AWS infrastructure and to help drive efficiency as part of a fast growing software company.


The role requires deep understanding of building technology for scale through automation & integration. This role should be comfortable being both hand-on and creating appropriate documentation and controls procedures for an organization with key compliance requirements: SOX, ISO 9001 / 27001, SOC2, etc...

Responsibilities:

  • Analyze Infrastructure Requirements
  • Provide infrastructure analysis services across cloud stack
  • Create Architectural Standards, Diagrams, Policies & Procedures
  • Establish, explain, and validate the solution-testing criteria for projects & enhancements
  • Manage Production Cloud Infrastructure
  • Write Terraform code to build, deploy and manage AWS infrastructure
  • Develop Chef recipes for managing AWS infrastructure
  • Managing CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.
  • Planning, building and deploying server monitoring, alarming and dashboards in InfluxDB/Grafana/CloudWatch
  • Address, investigate and remediate production issues as needed (e.g. when alarms fire)
  • Log file analysis, troubleshooting and remediation
  • Assisting with database and server migrations
  • Datacenter & Legacy to Cloud Migrations
  • Create the future operating platform for internal team members and external customers
  • Manage AWS Workspace to support VDI capabilities
  • Collaborate with IT Infrastructure and Product Development on cohesive solutions

Qualifications:

  • Experience with Amazon Web services (AWS) & Terraform
  • Knowledge of HTTP stacks (Apache/nginx/HAproxy, FastCGI, Java web applications)
  • Experience with DevOps automation tools (Chef | Ansible | Puppet)
  • Knowledge of scripting languages such as Ruby, JavaScript, Python, Bash, Java, Groovy, PHP, Perl.
  • (Ruby/Javascript preferred)
  • Experience with project management and workflow tools such as Agile, Jira, Scrum/Kanban, etc
  • Experience with Linux-based infrastructures, Linux/Unix administration, and Linux Systems
  • Fundamentals
  • Prior experience working with Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration (CI/CD) tooling

Certara bases all employment-related decision on merit, taking into consideration qualifications, skills, achievement, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or other characteristic protected by law.