The Dev Ops Engineering team supports all of the major web components for Healthgrades.com and other customer-facing services including the management and provisioning of Amazon Web Services (AWS) instances, Linux administration, Solr data administration, and web product release support. 

Key Responsibilities:

Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements

Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures

Contribute to and maintain system standards

Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks.  Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale

Build Amazon VPC solutions using Cloud Formation, NAT Gateways, Lambda, subnets, ASG, Load balancers, Cloudfront, S3 and RDS.

Build Tomcat, Jetty, NTP, ELK stacks for centralized logging.

Performance monitoring and remediation using Cloudwatch, Logsene, Nagios, Sematext, and tools like SAR

Implement the latest Dev Ops practices and processes, such as automation, continuous deliver and service monitoring.

Collaborate with architects, software engineers and configuration managers to improve software delivery, configuration management, site monitoring and site performance.

Advising and assisting across teams to improve site uptime, reduce service incidents and outages, and accelerate software deployments.

Demonstrate excellent technology leadership and decision-makingPerform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups

Provide regular after hours support for critical systems

 

Qualifications:

3+ years of Dev Ops experience in a production software environment.

Strong understanding of Linux, web servers and databases. Including deployment onto Amazon AWS.

Strong understanding of tuning and monitoring

Strong understanding of dev ops and platform software tools.

Strong understanding of scripting and configuration as code using GIT.

Demonstrated success in implementing software automation for deployment and operation.

Strong knowledge of data center networking (including load balancers, EIP, ACL and Security).

Good knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices (Agile/Scrum).

Strong problem solving, decision making and facilitation skills

Strong focus on creating high quality deliverables

Experience in standards development and governance

Focus on continual process improvement

Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or Physics, or equivalent experience

Desirable Experience:

SOLR

Administration of Java web applications running on Tomcat or Jetty

Strong understanding of Amazon Web Services

Varnish or other HTTP accelerators and caches

 

Please Note: There are sometimes weekly on-call rotations with this position, and issues that occur during the night will need to be handled as necessary. 

​Benefits:

Healthgrades offers a fast-paced, dynamic work environment including a competitive salary and benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), vacation and holidays.  The exciting part of working here is not the dental plan but the opportunity to be a key player in helping consumers make healthcare decisions and working with like-minded people who are passionate, focused and driven to make a difference in an industry that touches everyone’s lives.​​