Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps/SRE

Company Profile:

AppCard Inc. is a technology and marketing company headquartered in Manhattan, NY. Appcard has a powerful marketing tool that leverages data acquired at the point of sale (POS) via an advanced rewards program to create advanced retargeting campaigns that help businesses increase their bottom line. AppCard is unique in the loyalty space due to its patented technology which allows businesses to capture shopper identity and item level data in realtime from purchases made in store and online. The benefit of this is two fold: consumers benefit by receiving offers, incentives and coupons. Through a shopper’s interactions with the former AppCard’s platform records and learns shopper behavior and gives grocers the ability to make their data actionable to increase average basket size and systematically increase repeat purchases.

About the role:

AppCard is looking for an experienced DevOps/SRE Engineer, experienced in leading projects in operations/engineering and willing to grow technological and leadership skills in a cloud-based challenging environment. In this role, the successful individual will develop and support our critical information, systems and assets; build solutions, implement new software and hardware and provide training. From early on, you’ll be given interesting assignments, opportunities to lead initiatives and take full ownership and responsibility for the outcome.

Responsibilities

Hands on leadership of system architecture and modernization projects

Develop and manage cloud (AWS) and hybrid infrastructure

Partner with the engineering and operations team to set up SLAs, and observability for customers and other stakeholders. Identify and resolve systemic issues impacting engineering and operations.

Manage tooling and build systems

Proactively participate in resolving ongoing incidents

Skills and Qualifications

5+ years of relevant industry experience (DevOps/SRE or development)

Experience building roadmaps and technical project management

Experience with systems; system performance monitoring tools, identity providers, networking, content delivery and caching.

Excellent knowledge of Linux and container based deployment best practices

Experience with infrastructure as code tools (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform or similar)

Experience with AWS

Networking knowledge: Load balancers, firewalls, VPN’s, TCP/IP, troubleshooting and performance tuning

Knowledge of cloud security best practices

Innovative, creative mindset – out of the box thinker

Experience writing scripts in at least one language

**This role is full-time from our NYC office**