Jr. DevOps Engineer

Virtual Force is a Technology Advisory, Innovation, Design and Engineering platform that builds next generation software products for enterprises and founders. We have solved complex technology rollout and growth problems for our clients in Health Tech, FinTech, Ed Tech, Artificial Intelligence, BlockChain and Digital Transformation Verticals. Responsibilitis:

• Provides direct and responsive support for urgent analytical needs.
• Collaborates with others on the project to brainstorm about the best way to tackle a complex technological infrastructure, security, or development problem.
• Ensure high-availability, performance and scalability and security of the production systems
• Implement 24/7 monitoring of production systems
• Implement best practices to ensure 100% uptime
• Identify and implement automations to improve DevOps operations
• Apply industry best practices to implement system specific CI/CD processes
• Maintain documentation of all systems, processes and practices.

• BS in Computer Science, IT, IS, or equivalent area of technical study
• Must have at least 2 years of related experience.
• Familiarity with container orchestration services, especially AWS ECS, Dockers/Docker Swarm and Kubernetes
• Knowledge of Infrastructure As Code: Ansible, Terraform, cloud formation
• Experience administering and deploying development CI/CD tools such as Git, Jira, GitLab, or Jenkins
• Experience working with performance monitoring tools such as New Relic / Datadog / Pagerduty
• Significant experience with Windows and Linux operating system environments
• Knowledge of cloud computing platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as PowerShell or Python

• Excellent oral and written communication skills with a keen sense of customer service
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Process-oriented with great documentation skills
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
• Experience with or knowledge of Agile Software Development methodologies