Job Description
CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.
We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.
We are currently seeking an accomplished DevOps Engineer II to join our team, while supporting our multiple software products and brands across the organization, such as LoopNet, Apartments.com, Homes.com, and Ten-X.
This position is located in Washington DC and offers the following hybrid schedule options: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote
What qualities we are looking for?
- An individual with a sense of ownership and pride in his performance and its impact on company’s success and can work in a fast-paced environment, supporting multiple software products and brands across the organization such as www.apartments.com, www.costar.com and www.loopnet.com
- An Individual who is passionate about automating and leveraging DevOps principles, always striving for operational excellence with infrastructure-as-code mentality.
- An individual who lives and breathes continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) using latest DevOps tools and innovative methods
- An individual with proactive and go-getter attitude who works well in a team environment as an individual contributor
- An individual who is comfortable in a development and operations role
- An individual who has a thirst for learning new tools, platforms and languages
- An individual who communicates and collaborates well with teams in IT and business organizations within the company
- A critical thinker with good problem solving and time management skills and an ability to multi-task
- An individual with strong communication skills, expresses oneself clearly both verbally and in writing.
- Provides help to management, including hiring, on-boarding, training and performance reviews.
- Motivates team members and assesses performance, keeps management updated on team performance.
What essential qualifications and skills we are looking for?
- Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college
- A track record of commitment to prior employers
- 3+ years’ experience with managing heavy web traffic sites using mass scale architecture with a developer focus
- Solid sizing and estimation techniques for small to medium size tasks and projects
- Configuration management tools (e.g., Chef, Puppet, Ansible)
- Infrastructure as code using Cloudformation, Terraform or similar platforms
- Some experience in AWS or Azure or Google cloud
- Application load balancing technologies such as F5 LTMs, including management of VIPs, pools, nodes, iRule authoring, SSL offloading.
- Experience with enterprise monitoring tools in areas of APM, system vitals, synthetics and RUM.
- Heavy scripting support (PowerShell), Bash, Ruby, Groovy
- Experience with any SQL or No SQL databases
- Experience with configuring Content Delivery Networks (CDN) for performance caching and global traffic management.
- Familiarity with infrastructure foundation components of large networks in AWS and on-prem (e.g., systems & network administration, DNS, hypervisors, containers, databases, multi-datacenters).
What is good to have but not required?
- Programming languages / some developer background with either Java, C#, Python,NodeJS
- Server-less architecture methodologies
- Familiarity with PCI compliance and remediation
- Mobile application support (iOS, Android)
- Experience in REST API or Microservices development
- Agile methodologies and working on short sprint cycles
What’s In It For You
When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.
We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.
Our Benefits Package Includes (but Is Not Limited To)
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
- Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
- Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
- Commuter and parking benefits
- 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
- Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
- Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks
We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
This position offers a base salary range of $118,800 -165,000 based on relevant skills and experience and includes a generous benefits plan.
CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing
