Senior Devops Engineer

Hi there! We’re PAR and our purpose is:

To deliver solutions that connect people to the restaurants, meals and moments they love.

We take that responsibility very seriously. As a leading provider of technology to the top restaurant brands in the world we’re calling all rebels, instigators, idealists and builders to join our constantly growing team!

PAR invented the first standalone point of sale terminal over 40 years ago, yet we operate much like a start-up at the forefront of restaurant technology. Today, our solutions span Customer loyalty, engagement, restaurant management, payment services, drive-thru, and full POS integrations. These solutions are used to serve tens of millions of guests every day in over 120 countries.

Our mission is to build the number one restaurant technology company in the world and we’re off to great start.

We believe that our ambition is only limited by our ability to attract and retain great people; people who are up for the challenge to change the game with us! If it sounds like you belong here, we should meet!

About the role:

As a DevOps Engineer for PAR, you will be working with our developers, SRE, and DevOps teams to implement our next-generation infrastructure. We are looking for a self-motivated, responsible, team player who loves designing systems that scale. PAR provides a rich engineering environment where you can be creative, learn new technologies, and solve engineering problems, all while delivering business objectives. The DevOps culture here is one with immense trust and responsibility.

Responsibilities:

Work closely with the Development team to implement the continuous integration and continuous deployment needs based on the requirements.

Deliver SLA and business objectives through the whole lifecycle design of services from inception to implementation.

Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems

Scale our systems and services through continuous integration, infrastructure as code, and gradual refactoring in an agile environment.

Maintain services once a project is live by monitoring and measuring availability, latency, and overall system and application health.

Write and maintain software that runs the infrastructure that powers the Loyalty and Data platform for some of the world’s largest brands.

Respond to incidents and write blameless RCA’s/post-mortems

Implement and practice proper security controls and processes

Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.

Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on the platform.

Must have:

Minimum 5 years of experience in DevOps.

Strong interpersonal skills.

Must have experience in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, CloudBees, etc.

Must have experience in Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, or equivalent container technologies.

Experience in the creation of highly automated infrastructures with any Configuration Management tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.

In-depth knowledge of the Linux operating system and administration.

Production experience with a major cloud provider such as Amazon AWS.

Knowledge of web server technologies such as Nginx or Apache.

Knowledge of Redis, Memcache, or one of the many in-memory data stores.

Experience with various load-balancing technologies such as Amazon ALB/ELB, HA Proxy, and F5.

Comfortable with large-scale, highly-available distributed systems.

Good to have:

Understanding of Web Standards (REST, SOAP APIs, OWASP, HTTP, TLS)

Experience in Kafka, RabbitMQ, or any messaging bus.

Production experience with Hashicorp products such as Vault or Consul

Expertise in designing, analyzing troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

Experience in a PCI environment

Experience maintaining and scaling database applications

Knowledge of fundamental systems engineering principles

Understanding of the network fundamentals: OSI, TCI/IP, topologies, etc.

Understanding of Auditing of Infrastructure and helping PAR to control Infrastructure costs.

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