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Sr. DevOps Engineer
Date: Apr 29, 2025
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Company: Super Micro Computer
Super Micro Computer, Inc is currently seeking a Security / DevOps Engineer who ensures that the websites are reliable, performant, and can scale to meet the challenges that serving over billion customer presents. Automation is the key to meeting our demands; you will be responsible for conceiving, developing, and deploying systems, VMs, Web products and tools to keep the websites running reliably and efficiently
- Develop, maintain, and test, support in-house applications supporting the Supermicro web products’ cyber security automation.
- Supports Supermicro JumpStart program, respond to customers’ technical queries in timely and provide accurate solutions.
- Discover, test, adapt, and adopt new, outside technology products and services.
- Work closely with senior network engineers, supervisors, and the network security team to gather requirements, establish API’s, and document test processes for applications.
- Create proposals for application design, test, and deployment for review by peers and supervisors.
- Take a lead role setting the long term application and automation vision and strategies for the Supermicro network, security, and/or infrastructure groups.
- Regularly lead departmental and cross-functional groups and projects.
- You should be able to drive adoption of CI/CD, deployment automation, and release engineering standard methodologies.
- Troubleshooting and fixing infrastructure issues from hardware layer to application layers with no or minimal supervision.
- Working on tailoring monitoring and alerting systems to avoid false positives and update alert related settings.
- Reviewing alerts, emails, updating relevant teams in meetings regarding issues and outages.
- BA or equivalent training/experience and a minimum of 8 years experience as hand-on SRE, System Administration, and/or DevOps infrastructure engineering
2 years of experience with enterprise virtualization, VMware, Docker and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes).
2 years of Groovy/Jenkins file development experience
Experience implementing Continuous Delivery pipelines.
2 years’ experience in writing SQL database queries
2 years’ experience in Bash, Python or other scripting language.
4 years of experience with a Linux command line environment and TCP/IP networking.
Strong verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to communicate effectively within the organization, and with executives and security officers
Must have a track record of successfully driving security related changes (processes / code).
3 years’ cyber security experience and knowledge of current security standards and practices.
Extensive experience leading a project, taking a lead role in designing, implementing and/or administering systems, or providing direction to projects in the context of technical designs.
Broad expertise and unique knowledge of at least one programming language such as Python, Perl, or bash scripts. Working knowledge of at least one additional programming language.
Extensive knowledge and understanding of software development, testing, and deployment theories and frameworks.
SSCP, CISSP, CISM, RHCE, MCSE, CCNA Certificates preferred. Nagios Experience also preferred
Salary : $125,000 - $160,000