Senior Member Technical Staff

About Gracenote

• Gracenote is the top provider of entertainment information, creating industry-leading
• databases of TV, movie, and music metadata for entertainment guides, applications
• and in-car entertainment. Our technology serves billions of requests daily to
• hundreds of millions of devices around the world. Our customers include innovators
• like Apple, Twitter, Google, Spotify, M-GO and Hulu, top consumer electronics and
• cable companies, and leading automotive manufacturers such as Ford and Toyota,
• throughout the US and the world. Simply put, data provides you with an opportunity
• to impact the evolution of the entire entertainment industry.

Purpose

• As a senior devops engineer, your role is to bridge the gap between software
• development and IT operations, ensuring efficient and reliable software delivery. You
• design and implement automation tools, processes and frameworks to streamline
• workflows, enhance system reliability, and facilitate continuous integration and
• deployment.

Overall Responsibilities

• ● Deploy, automate, maintain, and troubleshoot DevOps managed shared
• services
• ● Design, Implement and maintain scalable, reliable infrastructure to support

SDLC

• ● Develop and manage robust CI/CD pipelines to streamline software
• releases and updates
• ● Proficient automating system configurations, deployments and monitoring
• to enhance efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
• ● Ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of production
• systems
• ● Mentor and guide junior devops engineers fostering a culture of
• continuous improvement and learning
• ● Research and implement new DevOps technologies
• ● Work closely with the Global DevOps and dedicated DevOps teams
• ● Suggest and implement best practices and architecture improvements

Must haves

• ● Proven ability to troubleshoot complex systems issues and implement effective
• solutions.
• ● Demonstrable DevOps experience
• ● Experience with programming or scripting language such as Python, Bash, Java
• ● Experience working in a Linux and in a cloud environment
• ● Minimum 4+ years with Apache Cassandra 4.1 Administration/Architecture
• ● Experience with Infrastructure as code, containerization such as K8s/Docker,
• logging, monitoring and alerting, and CI/CD tools
• ● Proficient in implementing Infrastructure as a code using tools like terraform and
• cloud formation
• ● Willingness to learn above mentioned qualifications if some are missing
• ● Minimum 4+ years provisioning, operating, and managing AWS environments
• ● Proficient with AWS services
• ● Familiarity interacting with AWS APIs
• ● AWS Disaster Recovery design and deployment across regions a plus

Desired Skills / Good to have

• ● Experience with multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers,
• application servers, databases, and networking
• ● Experience in automation and testing via scripting & programming (PowerShell,

Jenkins, Python, Ruby, Java)

● Experience with working with geographically dispersed teams

● Experience with secrets management tools like Hashicorp Vault

● Professional certifications such as AWS certified Devops Engineer, Kubernetes

administrator etc

● Demonstrated experience leading devops teams or projects, fostering

collaboration.

● A personal technical blog

● A personal (Git) repository of side projects

● Participation in an open-source community

B.E / B.Tech / BCA/ MCA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related

subject.

● Strong Computer Science fundamentals.

● Comfortable with version control systems such as git.

● A thirst for learning new Tech and keeping up with industry advances.

● Excellent communication and knowledge-sharing skills.

● Comfortable working with technical and non-technical teams.

● Strong debugging skills.

● Comfortable providing and receiving code review feedback.

● Smart+Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

● A positive attitude, adaptability, enthusiasm, and a growth mindset.

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