llama helps organizations use technology to improve their business. We are seeing tremendous client demand, and looking forward we do not anticipate that slowing down. We are looking for a diligent, growth-minded individual who can help us deliver rock-solid hosting solutions for our clients. As our DevOps Engineer, your primary mission will be ensuring our client environments run smoothly with minimal downtime, while also contributing to development projects when capacity allows.
What you’ll do:
Primary Focus:
· Manage and maintain enterprise application hosting environments on Kubernetes (OpenShift) and AWS
· Set up new client environments from scratch for various enterprise platforms
· Proactively monitor system performance and identify potential issues before they impact clients
· Troubleshoot and resolve hosting environment issues to minimize downtime
· Implement automation tools to streamline environment provisioning and maintenance
· Perform root cause analysis on system failures and implement preventive measures
· Collaborate with clients during environment setup, migrations, and issue resolution
· Create and maintain documentation for hosting procedures and troubleshooting guides
Secondary Focus:
· Support development projects using enterprise platforms and low-code tools
· Develop internal tools and automation using JavaScript and React
· Assist with business requirements analysis and technical solution design
· Participate in testing and debugging of development projects
What you'll bring:
Required:
- 3+ years of infrastructure/systems administration experience
- Kubernetes experience (any distribution - EKS, GKE, vanilla K8s, OpenShift, etc.)
- AWS cloud platform experience
- Experience with enterprise applications (large-scale business software platforms)
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Database management experience (PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, or similar)
- Comfortable working in Linux/Unix environments
- Understanding of networking, security, and system monitoring concepts
Highly Preferred:
- OpenShift experience (or strong willingness to learn - it's Kubernetes-based)
- IBM enterprise software experience (TRIRIGA, Maximo, WebSphere, etc.)
- Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)
- Container technologies and orchestration best practices
- Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Previous hosting/managed services experience
Nice to Have:
- Development experience with JavaScript, React, Node.js
- Business Intelligence and reporting tools experience
- Java development background
- CI/CD pipeline experience
What we look for:
· Energized by tackling and figuring out hard problems.
· Thirst for learning
- You’ll do whatever it takes to deliver high-quality work
· Flexible; you can comfortably adapt to evolving business requirements.
· Easily picks up new technologies/languages based on solid understanding of technology concepts.
· Takes pride in clean-code and following process.
· Shares knowledge with others
· Willing to get in and do the dirty work.
· Innovative; looks for ways to do things better.
· Pro-active; you don’t wait for work to be handed to you, you take things and run with them.
What it’s like to work here:
- llama is a small and growing company
- We work a hybrid schedule from our office in Austin
- We are highly collaborative and love generating and sharing ideas
- You will have an opportunity to work with the company founders frequently and create a role for yourself in a growing company. There is no limit to the possibilities.
