Job Description
As an industry leader and Software-as-a-Service provider our mission at 8x8, Inc. (NYSE:EGHT) is to transform the future of business communications. The 8x8 Open Communications Platform (TM) uniquely brings together Voice, Video, Collaboration, Contact Center, and enterprise-class API solutions, helping businesses across the globe transform their customer and employee experience, and empowering workforces worldwide to work smarter.
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We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to take part in the development of our communication platform. You will be part of the Engineering team, responsible for automated deployments, ensuring highest reliability and scalability of our production services and efficiently managing our cloud platform infrastructure.
Our ideal candidate is a professional with experience in automating deployments with modern configuration and deployment management systems. He/She requires a broad knowledge of systems, servers, load balancers, storages, security, networking and some background in programming.
The day-to-day activities- Ensure high performance and high availability of all our platforms on multi-cloud environment- Automate builds, deployments and other aspects of release lifecycle- Automate infrastructure changes, use Infrastructure as a Code approach- Investigate and develop skills in new technologies, collaborate across the company
Technologies you'll be working with- AWS and GCP (EKS/GKE, ECS, compute engine, networks, load balancers)- Kubernetes- Istio- Helm- Flagger- HashiCorp Vault- RabbitMQ- Redis, MongoDb- Puppet, Ansible, Terraform- Jenkins, Spinnaker- ELK, Prometheus + Grafana
Desired Skills and Experience- 3+ years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer- Experience in building and operating infrastructure in public clouds (AWS, GCP or Azure)- Experience in automating CI/CD processes- Programming experience in any scripting language (like Python)
Bonus points for- Experienced in deploying, operating, monitoring, optimizing and troubleshooting large scale infrastructure- Experience in managing high-load production environment
Beneficial skills and personality traits- Excellent written and oral communication skills- Excellent interpersonal skills- Methodical, logical and well organized- Strong analytical amp; troubleshooting skills. Thrilled to solve problems- Self motivated, great team player and customer oriented- Passionate. Persistent. Creative- Enjoys dynamic working environments
Qualifications- Degree in Engineering from a leading university- Written and verbal fluency in English is required
Working at 8x8- Industry leading, award winning technology and recognised on two Gartner Magic Quadrants- Inclusive, supportive and collaborative culture yet with a winning mentality- Encouragement and environment to make a difference- Deep passion for doing the best for our customers, giving them the best service and the best technology
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