Junior DevOps Engineer

About this role

Overview TransPerfect is seeking a Junior Development Operations Engineer to join our DevOps Team, to be responsible for ensuring the integrity, reliability and maintenance of our internally developed software products from conception to release.

As a Development Operations Team Member, you will be tasked with assisting our teams in understanding, deploying and maintaining infrastructure related to hosting the TransPerfect SaaS applications. You will be responsible for diagnosing any configuration issues with these systems in coordination with the development teams. The Development Operations Team Member will be the primary point of contact for the infrastructure needs and deal directly with development and implementation teams who have service requests and technical problems such as issues with their servers, networking, and automated deployments.

The ideal candidate is highly pro-active in several key areas of our processes. This position is a key member of a DevOps engineering team that is responsible for the operational activities and software deployment orchestration related to the internal infrastructure of our rapidly expanding business. You will work closely with our global engineering teams across the APAC and EU regions, collaborating daily with talented colleagues around the world.

Description Working alongside our Development, QA and implementation teams to detect hot spots in our applications and set preventative measures before they become live issues.

Monitoring and examination of all application, performance, event, and system logs to assist in troubleshooting

Writing and deploying automation scripts to maintain and analyze services and metrics like CPU/Memory usage across multiple environments.

Aiding our teams in moving our applications to a public/private cloud CI/CD environment

Maintaining our existing large VM deployments / including all VM OS updates

Troubleshooting and providing solutions for system configurations

Planning, executing and testing disaster recovery plans and procedures

Filing all IT/Colocation tickets ensuring fulfillment of requests, escalating to the right person if necessary.

Testing and evaluating new technologies.

Working with 3rd party support services

Documenting procedures

Required Skills The Junior DevOps Engineer will have demonstrable, hands-on experience in the following areas: Effective provisioning, installation, configuration, operation, and maintenance of version control systems, build tools and continuous integration tools.

Working with development and QA teams to build, maintain, and document through Confluence the Development, Testing, Staging, and Production environments.

Maintaining, monitoring and scaling VM deployments

Analysis of functionality and interoperability between virtualized resources.

Diagnosing and solving problems with the underlying environment.

Evaluation, implementation, and maintenance of monitoring platforms

Maintaining, monitoring, and scaling database servers including on and off-site replication (MySQL / Maria DB/ Postgresql)

Managing application and database backups

Required Qualifications and Experience Prior experience in system administration, systems engineering or DevOps type role with strong knowledge and experience of Linux environments.

A set of well-grounded skills relating to at least three of the following: Linux, databases, Globalization/Translation Memory Systems, Java, Script languages (PHP, Python, PERL, Regular Expressions), or RESTful APIs

Experience writing execution/automation scripts in Python or shell scripting.

Development experience with databases, both SQL and MongoDB

Good problem solving and analytical skills

Good interpersonal skills

Effective time management skills

Curiosity about learning new skills

Fluent in spoken English

Open-minded, pro-active, and eager to learn.

Basic software developer background

Desired Skills and Experience Ideal candidates will be familiar with the following subjects/technologies: Agile Methodology | SQL Database backups, restores, and monitoring (Maria DB/MongoDB) | Proxy servers | Network Security | ELK Stack

Orchestration tools (Kubernetes) | Configuration tools (e.g., Chef/Puppet) | Canary or A/B deployments | Infrastructure-as-Code