At LegitScript, we are passionate about making the internet and payment ecosystems safer and more transparent. We help companies of all sizes keep their services legal and safe for consumers. To do this, LegitScript combines big data with the world’s leading team of experts skilled in highly regulated and complex sectors, including transaction laundering detection, pharmaceuticals, online gambling, and more.

The result? Unmatched accuracy and deep risk analysis that identifies which commercial entities play by the rules, and which do not. Our diverse industry partnerships provide unique insights that keep businesses and governments at the forefront of emerging trends. That’s why LegitScript is trusted by the world's largest search engines, internet platforms, payment companies, and regulatory agencies.

The Senior DevOps Engineer will maintain internal, private, and public cloud infrastructures. This role will define processes and create configurations that adhere to industry best practices. 

What You'll Do:

• Deploy and maintain network infrastructure in Amazon Web Services to support the business and engineering needs

• Perform system upgrades and patches

• Automate and administer data backup and recovery activities

• Define and implement disaster recovery procedures

• Define, share and ensure that system administration and security best practices are followed

• Establish processes and systems to monitor the health of all systems

• Ensure development teams are supported in their efforts to deploy software in a timely and high-quality fashion

• Review infrastructure costs, contracts with vendors and assist in negotiating services

• Create tools and processes to optimize and maintain systems

• Document network architecture, policies and procedures

• Ability to work in a highly collaborative team

• Ability to embrace change and work in an iterative development environment

• Mentor peer engineer to build team knowledge

What You'll Bring:

• 3 years of hands-on Amazon Web Service environments administration experience and expertise in the following areas: EC2, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, TerraForm, CloudFormation, Lambda, ELB, S3, RDS, KMS, CodeBuild and CodeDeploy. 

• 3 years of hands-on Linux administration (CentOS, Amazon Linux, etc)

• 2 years of hands-on experience with Database technologies (Postgres, MySQL, Aurora, etc)

• 1 year experience in implementation of security requirements for compliance (SOC II, PCI, HIPAA, etc)

• 1 year hands-on experience with a Puppet environment including: administration, maintenance and deployment

• Expertise in security best practices for internal networks and cloud deployed systems

• Expert level scripting with Unix Shell

• Hands-on experience and expertise with:

• Network and Linux/Unix administration

• Highly scalable Amazon Web Services architectures

• MySQL and Postgres administration inclusive of backups, recovery and scaling

• Ruby, Python, or another scripting language

• ElasticSearch

• GitHub or another version control software

• Jenkins

• Jira and Confluence

• Continuous Integration and Deployment

• Automated infrastructure testing (Test Kitchen, InSpec, ServerSpec, etc)

• Automated configuration management and deployment tools (Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, etc)

• Orchestration, containers and other VM-related technologies

• Large data storage and processing with Cassandra, Hadoop or other distributed data stores.

• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban

• Hands-on experience or familiarity with security related technologies and best practices

• Experience with monitoring and alerting deployment and administration highly desired

• Experience in a non-management, technical leadership role over a peer group of System Administrators or Operations Engineers

• Must possess and consistently exhibit the competencies relative to the position.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to lead discussions in diverse groups of varying size.

• Excellent time management and problem solving skills as well as the ability to use good judgment and make strong independent decisions.

• Demonstrates an inspirational attitude that contributes to a positive team environment.

• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with team members along with willingness to set and maintain high standards of performance.

• Well developed ability to speak, read, comprehend, and write English

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position. We cannot support international remote work.

In addition to competitive salaries, full-time employees enjoy a great benefits package:

• Multiple Medical plans (one with $0 employee premium option), Dental & Vision plans

• 401k with company match and immediate vesting

• Generous paid time off package and 11 paid holidays

• And much more!

If you got to this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the job description you just read. Even if you don't feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people that believe in LegitScript’s mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways – not just candidates who check all the boxes.