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Cisco Senior DevOps Engineer in Prague, Czech Republic
About Us
AppDynamics is an application performance monitoring platform that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide real-time visibility and insight into IT environments. With our unique AIOps solution, you can take the right action at exactly the right time with automated anomaly detection, rapid root-cause analysis, and a unified view of your entire application ecosystem, including private and public clouds. Using AppDynamics, you'll finally align IT, DevOps, and the business around the information that helps you protect your bottom line and deliver perfect customer experiences at scale.
About You
First and foremost, you have strong troubleshooting and problem resolution skills. You work well under pressure and have strong written and verbal communications skills. You pride yourself in being a self-starter who leads by example and has experience working in a constantly evolving environment. You also have:
Minimum of a Bachelors degree in CSE, EE, CSM, or related technical field; MS degree desired
Minimum of a combined 5+ years of Site Reliability, DevOps, and/or Software Development experience, ideally in a growth-stage environment
Experience operating within, and supporting, sophisticated SaaS production or revenue-critical 24/7 web services environments
Must have experience developing and operationalizing system installations and upgrades
Strong Experience with Unix/Linux system administration especially in RedHat Linux (CentOS), Amazon Linux, and Azure Linux
Experience running and administering services in AWS, Azure, GCP or other cloud platforms
Significant experience with one or more scripting/coding languages, ideally with Terraform or Python
Experience with big data platform engineering
Experience with scaling and operationalizing distributed data stores, file systems, and services (Kafka, Elasticsearch, etc); familiarity with Lamdba architecture a big plus
Experience with virtualization and containerization platforms (Docker), container orchestration tools (Kubernetes) and aspects of Kubernetes to facilitate ease of delivery (Istio/Helm/Kube2Iam)
Availability for occasional on-call after-hours support
About the Role
Imagine a situation where you have hundreds of engineers build and pushing microservices into a highly available SaaS platform built on a cutting-edge technology stack.
Imagine keeping that platform running and scaling it infinitely across multiple geolocations, cloud providers.
Imagine leading a team of stellar DevOps engineers who are highly motivated to not just keep this platform running, but are constantly experimenting on how to make it better, what new technologies to adopt and how to continue to evolve the platform and roll out the infrastructural modernization without customers not even noticing a glitch.
Imagine a world which is ready to shift left and is on the brink of a major cultural shift to a true DevOps model.
That world is waiting for YOU. Do you want to be that person? If yes, let's chat!
Day-to-day responsibilities include:
Helping to build an infrastructure to facilitate rapid service deployments
Documenting findings and recommendations for improvement
Responsible helping lead full-stack platform infrastructure projects
Maintaining and improving deployment tools and methodologies; play a lead role in advancing our 'Infrastructure as code' architecture.
Own the evaluation and development of our data ingestion pipeline to be deployed 'as a service'
Creating repeatable, efficient, and scalable artifact deployment pipelines
Making recommendations to, and collaborating with engineering to ensure 100% application uptime
Monitor the SaaS environment and work with QA, Developers, Ops to identify and tackle problems
Ensure that failover mechanisms are in place and are working accurately
Responding to and solving technical emergencies
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.