Job Summary
eXp Realty is one of the fastest growing real estate brands in North America, with thousands of agents operating across the United States and Canada.
eXp Realty attracts the most talented people from all fields. Whether you're a real estate professional, engineer, marketer, accountant or another field, you'll be challenged and inspired every day. Join us on this incredible journey!
General Summary:
This role is for a high-performing, hands-on DevOps engineer committed to the practices required to support critical customer-facing platforms requiring consistent uptime while driving continuous improvement and innovation.
Participate in small-team initiatives to continuously refine our deployment practices for improved reliability, repeatability, and security. You will create plans, collaborate with other DevOps team members, and coordinate with engineering and business teams. These high-visibility initiatives will help to increase service levels, lower costs, and deliver features more quickly.
Design effective monitoring / alerting (for conditions such as application-errors, high memory usage) and log aggregation approaches (to quickly access logs for troubleshooting, or generate reports for trend analysis) to proactively notify business stakeholders of issues and communicate metrics, working closely with these stakeholders.
Your focus will be:
Ownership, architecture, and management of AWS infrastructure components such as VPCs, EC2, S3, CloudFormation, etc.
Owning the technical design, and implementation of the automation technologies required for deploying, maintaining and operating platform infrastructure.
Creating the policies and procedures for properly supporting our rapidly growing microservice architecture.
Major Responsibilities:
Deployment and management automation of cloud-based infrastructure and software
Working with configuration management tools - Cloudformation, Terraform, Salt, Ansible, Chef
Ensuring cloud-based architectures meet availability and recoverability requirements
Implementation of cloud-based monitoring, and alerting
Find scalability bottlenecks and areas for performance improvements
Identify and drive opportunities to improve automation for the company; scope and create automation for deployment, management, and visibility of our services
Active monitoring of risks to site SLAs and overall delivery.
Job Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering
MBA or advanced degree highly desired
2+ years of experience managing AWS infrastructure
5+ years of experience with technical operations and software development
Experience with one configuration management tool i.e Cloudformation, Terraform, Salt, Ansible, Chef
A strong software engineering or programming background. Any language is acceptable but prefer experience with one of the following: Java, JavaScript, Go, Python, or Mendix
Monitoring / alerting tools such as New Relic, Site24x7, Pagerduty, etc.
Experience with log aggregation tools such as Sumologic, FluentD, Scribe, Splunk
Skills & Abilities:
Solid understanding/experience of web services, databases and relating infrastructure/architectures
Solid understanding of backup/restore best practices
Experience with Amazon Web Services and/or any other public cloud
Release software through tooling (git, Jenkins, custom scripts, Docker)
Excellent Troubleshooting Skills
Experience supporting an enterprise-level SaaS environment
Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently
Excellent written and interpersonal communication, and documentation skills
Security experience a plus
Excellent collaboration skills across Development and Operations
Can Do attitude with a penchant for getting things done
Contact with Others:
This role will require considerable interactions each day working directly with:
Real estate agents and brokers
Vendor sales, business development, and development resources
Internal and external development resources
Working in an evolving and virtual environment (remote management)
Working with a number of stakeholders and business units, and across multiple time zones, countries, and teams
Internal marketing, support, and management teams
