Is automation more than just a buzzword? Are you comfortable explaining technology to others? Are you passionate about software development at work and at home? If your answer is “yes”, we would like to talk you!

Why you should join Nortal:

● Keep your skills fresh by working with some of the newest technologies and tools out there

● Join a small, highly collaborative team with growth opportunities

● Many client engagements each bringing new challenges and opportunities for growth

What makes Nortal unique:

● We don't just build software; we approach development as a well-honed craft.

● We are experts who believe in being innovative while having fun, and working continuously to refine our skills.

● We are committed to excellence in everything we do, from the technology we choose to the people who make up our team. With excellence as a guiding principle, we deliver quality results that ensure client satisfaction.

● We approach work with integrity. We do what we say we'll do, and we operate with transparency and honesty.

● We work cohesively and see each person at Dev9 as a critical contributor. We prize teamwork, and support each other in providing the best results for our clients. No one on our team is superior to another - we help each other out, in the spirit of personal growth.

● We don’t deploy into infrastructure, we build with infrastructure

Essential functions and responsibilities:

● Automate deployment, monitoring, management and incident response

● Develop and improve operational practices and procedures

● Proactively meet standards for information security and compliance, such as ISO, SOX, SSAE 16, etc.

● Collaboration with on-shore and off-shore teams (both client and internal)

● Interfacing and facilitating the successful completion of Rehosting and Replatforming client projects including identifying, communicating and delivering on Milestones throughout implementation

● Participate in Sprint Planning meetings, take ownership for user stories, development tasks and testing

● Mentorship of junior team members

Cloud Experience:

● Automation related to ensuring the infrastructure state (We use Ansible, Terraform, Helm & CloudEndure).

● Machine Images & Baked VMs

● Persistent disk management

● Monitoring and measurement (Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentd, SysDig, StackDriver, SumoLogic, Splunk)

● Disaster Recovery vs. Redundancy scenarios

● Multi-zone and Multi-region

Qualifications Required:

● Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)

● Proven leadership experience – on teams and out in the technical community

● 7+ years operations support deploying web services/web applications experience

● 3+ years of experience managing teams of DevOps or SysAdmins

● Comfortable with Python or Golang

● Cloud experience (AWS, Google, Azure, private cloud)

● Experience with containers (e.g. rkt, cri-o, Docker)

● Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker Compose)

● Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Google Deployment Manager, CloudFormation, etc)

● User-level familiarity with modern build experience tools such as Maven/SBT/Grunt/Webpack/npm and familiar with continuous integration (e.g. Jenkins, TeamCity) systems

● Strong understanding of system and networking concepts and troubleshooting techniques

● Very comfortable with Linux & Network administration including load balancing, routing, firewalls, VPN

● Experienced with disaster recovery and understanding of high availability

● Strong understanding of project lifecycle and delivery

● Cap Theorem

Qualifications preferred:

● DevOps experience (e.g. Ansible, Kubernetes, Mesos)

● Experience setting up new Google Cloud Platform projects

● NoSQL experience (e.g. MongoDB)

● Good communication skills to convey technical and project status to multiple audiences

Tooling we use:

● Github for code

● Trello for tasks

● Slack for all communications

● Ansible for server states

● Terraform for infrastructure states

● Python or Go for everything else