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　　If you are a DevOps and/or Cloud based systems enthusiast who likes to work on cutting-edge technologies in an environment that gives you the freedom to explore, play, and learn, then Gracenote is the right place for you. Join a close-knit, passionate team that collaborates in an agile environment to develop great technology. We encourage professional growth opportunities and invest in your personal development. Bring your experience with Cloud and DevOps to help to build out the capabilities of our Gracenote platform.

　　Job Purpose

　　Develop and enhance SaaS/PaaS platforms for kubernetes, data-lake query, data-processing, orchestration, monitoring, and more by leveraging popular open source software and git automation.

　　Ensure the reliability and availability of our SaaS/PaaS services using SRE best practices for architecture, monitoring, alerting, etc.

　　Job Description

　　Evaluate, contribute to, and leverage open source technologies including Kubernetes, Trino, Spark, Airflow, Prometheus + friends, ELK, Jupyter, and more in order to create and enhance our internal SaaS/PaaS platforms.

　　Be an internal sales-person for the DevOps tools and best-practices, helping to get all teams towards full adoption. The platform allows Gracenote to provide all teams with features, optimizations, updates, and security enhancements at scale and pace.

　　Diagnose technical and scalability faults on platform services which are typically built on Kubernetes.

　　Provide technical support and usage guidance to the users of our platform’s services.

　　Drive the creation and refinement of metrics, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms to give us the visibility we need into our production services.

　　Role Requirements

　　Passionate about software development and DevOps.

　　Competency in scripting in bash and or python for automation.

　　Experience with DevOps automation technologies like Terraform, Ansible, Secrets Management, Git, Jenkins (or similar ones).

　　Experience with containers (docker, container).

　　Experience with Unix/Linux based platforms.

　　2-4 years of work experience.

　　Experience specifically with AWS.

　　A degree in computer science, engineering, math or related fields

　　Desired Skills (These skills are nice to have)

　　Ability to code well in Java or Python (or another language and willingness to learn these two).

　　Competency in SQL.

　　Experience with kubernetes.

　　Experience with Presto, Trino, Spark, Airflow, Prometheus, ELK, or similar technologies

　　History of open source contributions

　　A personal tech blog