System Automation Engineer
| Company | Twilio |
|---|---|
| Location | Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Salary | $114600 – $168500 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Entry Level/New Grad, Junior |
Requirements
- Proficiency with one or more programming languages: Python, Java and Go preferred.
- Experience with different architectures and services running on public cloud infrastructure at scale (AWS preferred) using automation to support deployment, scaling, monitoring, and management.
- Deep familiarity with Linux (CentOS/RHEL or Ubuntu preferred), bash scripting, service configuration and management.
- Experience in deployment tools and frameworks, with an understanding of continuous deployment processes (ex: Git, Buildkite, CircleCI, Github Actions).
- Strong understanding of networking concepts and internet application fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, SSL, load balancing, etc)
- Effective and assertive communication and strong collaboration skills.
- Skills to work independently with multiple global teams, developing, configuring, deploying, and operating the global infrastructure for Twilio Network’s Platform blending operational excellence with development best practices.
- Bachelor’s degree required, or equivalent experience.
- 1+ years of experience in a DevOps/Software Development environment.
Responsibilities
- Work in a small, high-impact, multi-talented engineering team.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Architects and other Engineers to tackle complex problems in distributed computing and infrastructure management.
- Build and operate your team’s services in a distributed production environment in the DevOps model.
- Ensure a high quality by applying gold standards and different kinds of performance testing.
- Apply Agile methodologies to continuously deliver value to the customers.
- Rapidly acquire new technical skills and knowledge in a fast-paced, high-delivery environment.
- Demonstrate effective communication by authoring and reviewing design documents, runbooks, and other service documentation, and keeping a good record of changes in the systems.
- Positive attitude, and aptitude to learn and execute quickly in a small team.
- Become part of the on call rotation for the team.
Preferred Qualifications
- Operational experience in complex distributed systems, including experience with SLO/SLAs towards high availability and reliability goals.
- Experience building and managing systems with tools including Kubernetes, Chef/Ansible/Puppet, Kafka, Docker, and Terraform.
- Experience operating large scale systems and media services in production across multiple regions or data centers in a cloud platform or enterprise scale environment.