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Devops/sre Platform Engineer - 🔥


Transform the communications world! 

We’re proud (and excited!) to be transforming the global communications landscape through our Omnichannel Platform-as-a-Service (OPaaS). 

Our Amazing #TeamSparkpost

SparkPost is the industry’s most trusted email optimization platform. SparkPost helps senders reliably reach the inbox with powerful solutions to help them plan, execute and optimize their email programs. The SparkPost platform is powered by the industry’s largest data network, a team of email experts to help brands elevate every aspect of their email program, and a security and compliance posture to support even the most regulated industries. SparkPost is the world’s largest sender, delivering 40% of all commercial email - 4-5 trillion sent annually - and also boasts the world’s largest data footprint to help enterprise-level brands make data-driven decisions to improve their email performance. The world’s most sophisticated senders, including The New York Times, Zillow, Adobe and Booking.com trust SparkPost to elevate their email.

 

 

What You’ll Do in This Role to Add Value

At SparkPost, we value Site Reliability Engineering methodologies and concepts. Platform Engineers (DevOps/SRE) play a critical role at SparkPost and are largely responsible for designing, building and maintaining the solutions for infrastructure and application deployment management with an emphasis in scalability, fault tolerance, performance and monitoring.

 

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain tooling to automate and continuously improve the provisioning of infrastructure in AWS with emphasis on scalability, reliability, resiliency, zero downtime and ability to rollback. 
  • Design and develop tools, scripts and frameworks to enable self-service capabilities. 
  • Design and develop automation workflows, performing unit tests and conducting reviews to make sure your work and work of others is elegantly coded and tuned effectively with emphasis in platform performance and resiliency. 
  • Design and implement monitoring and alerting that are actionable and backed with detailed documentation on how to take action on alerts. 
  • Ability to effectively coordinate with Architecture, SREs and engineering teams to propose and develop solutions. 
  • Work closely with software development and testing teams assuring that software is reliable and scalable. 
  • Excellent system and network troubleshooting skills with Linux/Unix. 
  • Participate in 24x7 On-call rotation to support customers 

 

Required Skills/Qualifications

  • Strong knowledge of Test Driven Development 
  • Comfortable with Architecture Modelling, plus for familiarity with the C4 Model of Architecture Diagrams
  • 1+ years of experience working under a scrum model 
  • 4+ years of experience working with public cloud infrastructure ( either AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) 
  • 4+ years of experience implementing and operating production workloads in public cloud provider, preferably with AWS using automated provisioning 
  • 2+ years of experience with Git 
  •  3+ years of experience building with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, Chef, Puppet or Ansible) 
  •  4+ years of experience in software development or scripting, including deep knowledge of at least one of the following languages: Bash, Java, Ruby, or Typescript 
  •  3+ years of experience in application monitoring and log analytics tools (Datadog, New Relic, Splunk/ELK) with a solid understanding of how to implement effective automated application monitoring for mission critical applications 
  • 2+ years of experience in leading medium-to-large scale deployments of applications hosted on AWS which includes automating every aspect of delivering those applications 
  • 2+ years of experience in a public facing high-traffic production Web or Email Operations environment 
  • In-depth understanding of SMTP, HTTP, TCP, REST APIs and related protocols 
  • Experience with Apache/NGINX, Load Balancers, DNS, NTP, Virtual Machines, and OpenVPN 
  • Strong understanding of modern virtualized server hardware, ability to identify resource issues related to utilization of CPU’s, memory, disk IO, and network IO. 
  • 2+ years of experience with SQL and NoSQL databases 
  • 2+ years of experience implementing monitoring/alerting systems in an automated fashion using services such as Circonus, Datadog, New Relic, Nagios, etc. 
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills including the ability to quickly identify trends and patterns and ability to identify root causes of problems and candidate solutions
  •  Ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams in multiple locations, participate in code reviews
  • Proven track record of self-motivated expansion of technical knowledge 

 

Desired Skills/Experience

  • Certification in AWS, either Devops, Sysops or SA
  • Experience with either Javascript, C or LUA
  • Experience with BGP, Internet Routing and AWS network stack would be a plus

 

Sparkpost provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

 

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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What You’ll Gain

  • Work from anywhere 
  • Generous stock options for all Birds
  • WFH set-up budget
  • State-of-the-art work gear
  • Learn from hundreds of the best minds in the business
  • Collaborate with diverse colleagues from over 55 countries (and counting)

LIFTOFF! 🚀

Life at MessageBird:

We call ourselves Birds!

We work fast, grow fast, build fast and focus on impact. We’re go-getters, industry leaders and roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-it-happen kind of people. 

Ready To Fly?

Our cloud communications solutions make it possible for over 25,000 businesses to instantly connect with billions of devices worldwide, allowing them to speak with their customers in the same ways they talk to their friends.

Headquartered in Amsterdam, we’re proud to be a “Work Anywhere” company. Our unique and united culture is rooted in our team: a diverse flock of over 750 Birds who represent 55 nationalities and counting. We’re smart, fast, and hungry. Our potential for growth is limitless. 

We understand that “life happens” and give you the freedom to choose the best environment for you to “get sh*t done”. Our Birds choose where they work from in the region or country we’re hiring in, so long as it’s within the job’s complementary timezone as indicated in the Job descriptions — this could be from one of our MessageBird hubs (Amsterdam, Singapore or Bogota) or remotely.... Want to work from a rural retreat? Sure, no problem! How about a bustling city getaway for a few weeks? Go ahead!

MessageBird is committed to fostering a fair and equal environment based on trust and mutual respect. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace is paramount to our success and we are committed to building a team that represents a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. 

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