Staff Engineer, DevOps 202169

Ellie Mae is the leading cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry. Ellie Mae’s technology solutions enable lenders to originate more loans, reduce origination costs, and reduce the time to close, all while ensuring the highest levels of compliance, quality and efficiency. Visit ? EllieMae.com to learn more.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work and collaborate closely with our software engineering, architecture and operations teams at Ellie Mae. Our Site Reliability Engineering Development (DevOps) are responsible for ensuring Ellie Mae services are highly available, reliable, secure and scalable.
The ideal candidates are fluent in systems programming and/or automation, and can leverage their experience to solve complex problems associated with running production environments at massive scale in multi-tenant environments. Responsibilities

• Employ deep troubleshooting and scripting skills to improve the availability, performance, and security of Ellie Mae Services.
• Coding and Automation of Applications on Cloud Platform
• Implement automated tests, automated deployments, and operational tools
• Collaborate with Product and Support teams to plan and deploy product releases
• Set Strategic and Operational goals for team, and work with team to deliver on goals.
• Work with Cloud Platform and Operations leaders to develop narratives, backlog grooming, epic planning and overall sprint planning processes
• Work with Engineering leadership to build shared services that meet the requirements and need of the platform and application teams
• Ensure services are designed with 24/7 availability and operational readiness and rigor
• Mentor engineers and work with them on career planning and goals
• Implementation of proactive monitoring, alerting, trend analysis and self-healing systems
• Participate in on-call rotations, driving restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
• Define non-functional requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs, standards, and methods for scalable, highly available distributed systems
• Contribute to product development / engineering as needed to ensure Quality of Service of Highly Available services

Requirements

• 10+ years of Systems Engineering in 24x7 Production Services environments
• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math, or equivalent professional experience
• Fluency with at least one current generation scripting language used by DevOps professionals
• (Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby) + Java Development and/or .NET
• Excellent troubleshooter, utilizing a systematic problem-solving approach spanning code, systems, and network theory & protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP) ability to read a packet capture/tcpdump, etc.
• Demonstrated experience in designing, analyzing, and diagnosing large-scale distributed systems + Windows Server and/or Linux systems internals (system libraries, file systems, client- server protocols)
• Experience operating on AWS (both PaaS and IaaS offerings)
• Experience in both Windows (2k8R2+) and Linux (centos) + Security triage & forensic analysis
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery concepts, including Infrastructure as code utilizing tools like Terraform, Cloudformation and SaltStack/Chef
• Familiarity with Containerization concepts like Docker, and PaaS services on AWS.
• Experience with elastically scalable, fault tolerance and other cloud architecture patterns
• NoSQL/Docker/Micro-services/Forensic-Analysis experience is a big plus

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Ellie Mae is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply.
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