Emerald Resource Group
Sr DevOps Engineer
Salary: Up to 110k for the right background
Hybrid: In Ritchfield, Ohio
Only US Citizens will be considere
d
About the Ro
leWe are seeking a DevOps Engineer to scale our high velocity payments platform and manage transactions within our multi-tenant AWS environment. You will dive into our established architecture to improve automation and system resiliency while solving live production challenges. This role requires a practical engineer to optimize processing engines and maintain compliance as our merchant volume grow
s.
Responsibili
- tiesEnsure the reliability, availability, and performance of a multi-tenant production sy
- stemScale and operate AWS-based infrastructure supporting a Java web applica
- tionMonitor and troubleshoot issues across application, database, cache, and data warehouse la
- yersImprove observability through metrics, logging, and aler
- tingParticipate in on-call rotations and lead incident response and root cause anal
- ysisIdentify performance bottlenecks and scaling limits in a shared-tenant environ
- mentAutomate operational tasks and reduce toil where it matters
- mostWork within existing frameworks and tooling to make systems safer and more scal
- ablePartner with developers to improve deployments, capacity planning, and failure hand
- lingImplement automated load and fuzz tes
- tingDefine key service level objectives (
SLO)
Technologies You’ll Wor
- k WithAWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, Redshift, and related ser
- vices)Java-based web applic
- ationsMySQL (performance tuning, scaling, reliab
- ility)Amazon ElastiCache (Redis/Memc
- ached)Amazon Re
- dshiftMonitoring and alerting tools (Graphite, Grafana, Cloud
watch)
Qualif
- ications3+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or production operatio
- ns rolesStrong understanding of AWS infrastructure and cloud-native scaling
- patternsExperience supporting Java applications in pr
- oductionSolid knowledge of MySQL performance, replication, and scaling st
- rategiesExperience operating cache layers and data stores
- at scaleUnderstanding of multi-tenant architectures, including isolation, noisy-neighbor issues, and capacity
- planningStrong Linux fundamentals and troubleshootin
- g skillsAbility to stay calm, think clearly, and prioritize during i
ncidents
