Senior Devops Engineer

Sincere is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our growing team. In this role, you will support our family of brands – Punchbowl, Timehop, and Memento.  The ideal candidate knows how to manage and scale cloud-based environments (5+ years of experience required), and will champion new processes and improvements to our AWS web infrastructure. You will be responsible for site reliability, monitoring and enhancing the observability of key systems, security, reliable deployment of services, disaster recovery planning, and CI. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the development team to improve our processes, applications, and services.

Our team values uptime, stability, scalability, and reliability, and, as a key member of our team, you will have the opportunity to learn and apply new technologies to meet these needs as we grow.

You are:

• Experienced with AWS infrastructure management: EC2, VPC, S3, ELB, ECS, IAM, Lambda, CloudFront, RDS, ElastiCache
• Knowledgeable in infrastructure configuration management tools (Terraform, Chef)
• An expert in Linux systems’ administration covering security, maintenance, backups, disaster recovery, storage management, monitoring, etc. (Ubuntu)
• Highly skilled in command line and bash scripting skills
• Experienced with database administration (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis)
• An expert in how to use and maintain monitoring, logging, & observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, ELK stack, Grafana, Prometheus, Nagios)
• Knowledgeable in systems and networking: DNS, SSL, SMTP, SSH, VPN
• Well-versed in web infrastructure management: HAProxy, NGINX, understanding of HTTP
• Familiar with Docker, containers, CI/CD, automation

You will:

• Manage, plan, and execute system and software updates and upgrades when needed
• Manage application deployments in coordination with the development team
• Maintain and improve our monitoring systems to preempt issues that may affect our live environments
• Prioritize and resolve live issues appropriately
• Investigate and implement system improvements
• Maintain and improve system documentation and runbooks
• Plan and implement disaster recovery and backup plans on AWS

Benefits

Do you want to work in a growing company that invests in its employees more than the average company? Sincere is a family of brands with heart. The Company is home to Punchbowl®, Timehop®, and Memento®, and builds technology that brings you closer and helps show you care to the people who matter the most. With Sincere Foundation, we support organizations that address basic needs, and envision a future where everyone has the opportunity to celebrate, recognize milestones, and honor memories. We provide a fun, casual, and innovative environment where hard work is recognized and rewarded.

Some Sincere Perks:

• 100% healthcare coverage
• Flexibility to work from wherever you will be most effective
• A collaborative, start-up environment where you’ll learn a lot, get your hands dirty, and see your work directly impact our business
• Fantastic, smart coworkers who are passionate about what they do
• Virtual team coffee chats, summer cookouts, biannual Team Summits, and anything else we can think of to have fun as a team

PLEASE NOTE: Our team is primarily based in Greater Boston. We will consider applicants who reside anywhere within a 2 hour drive of the city. While this role is remote, we have occasional in-person meetings at the office (every 4-6 weeks typically).