Job Description

Description & Requirements

PARC, a Xerox company, is in the Business of Breakthroughs. Practicing open innovation, we provide custom R&D services, technology, expertise, best practices, and intellectual property to Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, startups, and government agencies and partners. We create new business options, accelerate time to market, augment internal capabilities, and reduce risk for our clients. Since its inception, PARC has pioneered many technology platforms from the Ethernet and laser printing to the GUI and ubiquitous computing and has enabled the creation of many industries. Incorporated as an independent, wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox in 2002, PARC today continues the research that enables breakthroughs for our clients' businesses.

About the Role:

PARC AI is looking for a result-driven Lead DevOps Engineer who is passionate about leading edge Cloud, SaaS, and AI technologies, and who is able to think big picture and yet is a hands-on system architect and mentor to his/her team. The ideal candidate is driven to build highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and easy to administer SaaS infrastructure for deploying, configuring, monitoring, maintaining, scaling, optimizing, and troubleshooting AI services. You are pro-active and organized, diligent about documentation, cant sleep unless Nagios has everything covered, and dont feel a job is done until its automated for the next time. This is an opportunity to build our Operations team, the process, and the way our overall infrastructure is run.

Duties and Responsibilities:

* Implement DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration, and automated deployment that leverage AWS services
* Design and build the tools, frameworks, systems, and processes that engineers use to build, integrate, deploy, scale, and manage their software.
* Build, manage, and deploy architectures using technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes
* Automate tasks across the full CI/CD lifecycle to create an efficient developer experience and reduce manual toil
* Scale solutions from proofs-of-concept to full production systems.
* Promote and implement best practices in observability (monitoring, tracing, alerting, logging) and high availability within the software engineering group
* Participate in an on-call rotation to mitigate disruption for any system being supported by the DevOps team

Required Experience and Skills:

* 5+ years in DevOps or SRE roles, with a focus on tooling, automation, and distributed systems development
* 8+ years of overall software industry experience
* Extensive experience architecting, designing, and implementing deployments in AWS cloud environments
* Excellent understanding of networking and ability to troubleshoot infrastructure issues in an AWS environment
* Excellent documentation and communication skill, as well as presentation and demo skills
* Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins, Rundeck, CircleCI, Codefresh)
* Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Salt)
* Hands-on experience using Terraform and/or Kubernetes at scale
* Strong scripting knowledge
* Experience using monitoring frameworks to monitor health and performance of infrastructure and applications
* Experience in managing SaaS Operations and Infrastructure is a must.
* Excellent Python and/or Perl and/or Shell scripts programming skills

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Education:

* BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related fields and/or equivalent work experience.

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