DevOps Engineer

The Devops Engineer is responsible for administering a large and complex web server farm using infrastructure as code. This role is responsible for the management of both customer facing and backend infrastructure. Automation and scripting using Bash, Python and Perl are key to being successful in this role. The Devops Engineer is expected to implement new automation tools and define standard operating procedures as well as apply their base of technical,operational and process or project skills to identify opportunities for process portions of projects or processes and bringing new knowledge into the organization are also major functions of the Systems Engineering role.

Technical Experience:

• Experience scripting Amazon Web Services is preferred (Python/Bash);
• Experience with Mail protocols / Server configuration (SMTP, Postfix, Dovecot, Sendmail);
• Experience Load balancers (F5 and Nginx);
• Experience with Apache and Nginx webservers (rewrite rules and access control);
• Experience with Jenkins;
• Adept with Linux command line;
• 3 years administering Linux web servers in a professional capacity;
• 2 year automating tasks with scripting languages: UNIX shell, Perl and Python preferred;
• 2 year using declarative configuration management solution (Ansible/Puppet/Chef).

Required Education

• Information Systems or related experience.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in oncall rotation;
• Writes scripts for intermediate automation (data manipulation);
• Writes scripts for basic automation (replacing straight manual steps);
• Writes new Ansible Playbooks;
• Creates estimates for tasks with assistance from senior team-members;
• Delivers code that is generally accepted by senior team-members;
• Interprets and delivers upon technical specifications with guidance from senior engineers;
• Creates effective documentation;
• Recognizes the risk of changes and tailors actions accordingly.

Soft skills:

• Flexible, organized, good work ethic - requires little supervision;
• Willing to learn new things and apply that knowledge to achieve goals;
• Pro-active, able to meet schedules and deadlines;
• Communicates effectively with team members and more senior technology engineers;
• Receptive to feedback, helps & offers solutions;
• Fluent in English, both spoken and written.

About American Greetings

American Greetings is a creator and manufacturer of innovative social expression products that assist consumers in enhancing their relationships to create Happiness, Laughter and Love.

American Greetings’ major greeting card lines are American Greetings, Carlton Cards, Gibson, Recycled Paper Greetings and Papyrus. We also own large web collections of greetings on the Web , Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, American Greetings has offices worldwide in Canada, UK - Europe, Australia, Asia and generates annual revenue of approximately $ billion.

The Bucharest Office is one of AG’s IT Centers that offers support for the Corporation Teams in the Data warehouse, System Engineering, QA Automation Engineering, Web & Mobile Development arias.

We are a young, ambitious and dynamic team, growing together with the company through high trainings offered by our specialists in a variety of technologies across all platforms:

• Data Warehouse (Oracle, SQL, Informatica, Teradata, ETL, Unix/Shell Scripting, QlikView);
• Web & Mobile Development (Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Endeca, SAP, Node JS, Android, iOS);
• QA (Avalanche, JMeter, Selenium);
• System Admin (Linux, Microsoft Windows - Active Directory, Exchange, VM-Ware);
• Creativity  - Web Design, Adobe Illustrator;
• SAP.

Join US, and you’ll discover a place where work becomes fun!