As a founding member of the newly-formed Cloud/DevOps group, you will help continue to define our transformation towards an enterprise SaaS solution, hosting numerous top-tier customers. We’re looking for an operations engineer with a development background who has operational experience and expertise spanning high-availability systems in both lower and production environments, a DevOps mentality of continuously improving the system, and a firm grasp on automation and cloud architectures. You must have extensive experience supporting applications developing in .NET, Java, and JavaScript. You should also be passionate about solving problems and developing creative solutions leveraging automation. 

Your First Three Months

In your first month, as your familiarity with the product grows, your responsibilities and influence will grow as well. You, along with your team, will be responsible for supporting the product team’s operational needs in the upper environments. Further, you will collaborate with other members of the Development and QA team in established patterns and continue to hone your skills as you start to formulate ways to push the design, architecture and implementation of our CI pipelines (lower and upper environments) to their next phase.

Within two months, you will fill in the gaps to have a well-tested, low-latency and highly available environment for our product operational needs. Working with the development team, you will start to implement out the gaps in creating and supporting a truly scalable product offering. You will be highly influential in the formation of the rest of your operations team as you help hire our second operations engineer. Your team will be responsible for supporting production environments.

Within three months, you will help drive changes to the operational and development roadmap as we continue onboarding new and existing customers into our hosted production environments by mid-to-late 2020. 

What You’ll Do

Design, provision, configure and maintain the operations platform to handle the scale of running several application stacks in the cloud that will be consumed by thousands of customers nationwide and our internal Product Team. Responsibilities will include:

• Automating the deployment and maintenance of cloud platform technologies in both upper and lower environments
• Implementing and overseeing log management, data warehouse, and database operations, including management of Logging/Audit services
• Ensuring all monitoring systems (infrastructure- and application-level) are in place; report on availability
• Designing and implementing strategies around disaster recovery and security for all sub-systems in infrastructure (e.g., web servers, database, queues, storage, network)
• Aiding in improving the overall product through development task specific automation in the lower pipeline
• Integrate static analysis tools in build pipeline (security, code quality, etc.)
• Add database deployment capability to release pipeline (automate schema changes across all databases)
• Incorporate test automation into build pipeline
• Separate code from configuration in build/release pipeline
• Researching and implementing emerging virtualization techniques and advising management around improved scalability
• Building strategic and tactical plans for continued improvement of cloud architecture and operations
• Performing capacity management, load and scalability planning
• Helping drive process improvements for service management, including: outage/incident management, rollbacks and reporting
• Assisting management in development and optimization of operational cost models
• Assisting in the establishment of 24x7 performance monitoring, reporting and response protocols 
• With the help of your team and the development group, you will provide on-call support outside of normal work hours/days

About You

• You’re driven, humble, and autonomous
• You’re a quick study, a strong communicator, and you’re able to adapt to fast-paced environments
• You have a working knowledge of Agile Development practices (e.g., SCRUM, TDD)
• You are (or have the mindset of) a developer, but are intrigued by the operational aspects of hosting developed solutions
• You’re devoted to automation
• You have 4-8 years of hands-on production experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure, including:
• Configuration of VPCs, with VPN to corporate network
• Experience setting up, maintaining and monitoring global production environments, QA and staging environments, with a strong understanding of the differing needs of such environments
• 3 - 4 years of experience in a professional production environment 
• 3 - 4 years of experience managing networking infrastructure and monitoring at the application level
• Performance optimization experience, including troubleshooting and resolving network and server latency issues, performing hardware evaluation/selection tasks, performance vs. cost vs. time analysis 
• At least 1 year of experience with automation or scripting tools (e.g., GO, Python, Shell, PowerShell) 
• 2- 3 years of experience with Ansible, Jenkins or other comparable tools
• You’re detail-oriented, with excellent documentation skills, and you’re someone who can successfully manage multiple priorities
• Troubleshooting skills that range from diagnosing hardware/software issues to large scale failures within a complex infrastructure 

Other Things We Hope You Have  

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Experience with Relational Databases such as Oracle and Aurora, Splunk (or other log aggregation tools), Grafana, Terraform and Prometheus
• Extensive production experience with MS Azure
• Experience working with Docker, Kubernetes and hands-on experience with performance, load and security penetration testing 
• Hands-on experience with building out and maintaining a continuous integration and delivery pipeline

Our Team 

You will be the founding member of what will ultimately be a three-person team of Cloud Ops Engineers. You will report directly to the SVP of Technical Operations, but will collaborate extensively with the Director of Development and the rest of our Development Team.

We have an open and collaborative environment where everyone works together to deliver what is needed, from product features to operations needs (e.g., health checks). 

We value open and direct communication, taking calculated risks that will push us forward, and investing in our people. 

Our Stack 

• We have current Production and Continuous Integration footprints in Azure and AWS
• Our front-end applications leverage .Net, Vue.js and Java
• Our APIs comprise of .NET and java
• Our backend comprises of MS SQL Server, Oracle and AWS Aurora
• We currently have a CI pipeline that we are looking to take to the next level to help with our growth in customers and employee base

About Unanet

With headquarters in Dulles, Virginia, Unanet serves more than 2,000 businesses with its ERP software solutions purpose-built for professional service organizations. Unanet's software helps project-driven organizations reliably plan, track and manage projects, people, and financials. Unanet's customer-centric culture means we strive to deliver insights with personal service.

At Unanet you will work collaboratively with colleagues equally committed to achieving customers' expectations. We take pride in delivering more than technology, but also the extra support and service customers need.

Selected as one of the 'Top Places to Work' three years running, Unanet's culture is collaborative, dedicated and energetic. We offer a competitive salary, health and life insurance benefits, and the potential for bonus.

Unanet is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants will be considered for positions without regard to race, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws