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About Emerald
Emerald’s talented and experienced teams grow our customers’ businesses 365 days a year with products that create connections, deliver content, and drive commerce. We produce over 140 annual events, create and deliver content through print and digital channels, and power commerce through our seamlessly integrated in-person and digital platforms and channels. For more information, please visit http://www.emeraldx.com.
Emerald is seeking an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer to join our expanding organization in its goal to become the leading Enterprise B2B solution across a broad and diverse spectrum of industries, customers, and users. We are looking for candidates who are enthusiastic and ready to immediately contribute to our customers’ success. Successful candidates will have experience in creating, maintaining and optimizing AWS infrastructure, configuring and managing service orchestration platforms, developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and providing monitoring solutions to ensure continuous application availability.
What You'll Do
- Deploy, manage and optimize AWS infrastructure for development, QA and production application environments
- Manage AWS Cloud deployments for the Elastic B2B Sales and eCommerce Platform
- Work on design and implementation of service orchestration solutions
- Maintain and improve automated deployments through the use of CI/CD tools
- Manage and utilize tools to monitor application uptime and performance
- Collaborate with developers to resolve application and performance issues
- Manage access to applications for various teams and their members
- Manage logging, monitoring and alerting tools
- Collaborate with company Security and Compliance leadership to establish and maintain SOC II, ISO, PCI, and GDPR security standards and compliance
- Collaborate with the DevOps and other teams to improve application performance and processes
- On-call rotation for weekend issues
About You
- 5+ years in AWS System Administration
- Demonstrated success in fast paced SaaS Product Infrastructure environments
- Ability to work across client services, customer success, development and DevOps teams, in the US and globally
- Ability to work independently and organize tasks and priorities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including diagramming and technical documentation
- Passionate in identifying and learning about new technologies to improve customer experience and application efficiency, and to reduce operating costs
- Have high proficiency with configuration, management and maintenance of Kubernetes clusters.
- Experience with CI/CD platforms and tools, such as Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, Semaphore
- Experience with Ubuntu administration and use
- Experience with Bash Scripting and Python
- Experience with Docker
- Experience with AWS administration and services, including VPC, EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, CloudFront, Cognito, IAM, AppSync, API Gateway, Lambda, Route53, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, ECS, EKS, SQS
- Experience with Jira and Confluence, or similar tools
Nice to Have
- Experience with observability tools
- Experience with Docker Swarm
- Experience with MongoDB, MySQL, MariaDB management
- Experience with Cloudflare (WAF, Spectrum, Zero Trust)
- Experience with Azure, Microsoft Windows and Microsoft SQL Server
About Emerald
At Emerald, we strive to foster a diverse and inclusive community. We actively recruit and champion candidates who bring new perspectives from varied professional backgrounds and experiences, and we are intentional about ensuring a positive hiring experience for everyone. Our job postings don’t contain experience inflation, and most don’t require college degrees. Instead, they’re crafted to focus on outcomes and transferable experiences that are assessed in a structured interview process carried out by trained hiring teams.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Target Compensation: $110,000-140,000 (bonus eligible)
Please note that this range reflects a reasonable estimate of the target compensation for this position. This range may ultimately vary based on a candidate’s qualifications and may be higher where required by applicable law.
We offer a competitive benefits package designed to strengthen our employees’ physical and mental health, including unlimited vacation for exempt employees, flexible working locations, 401(k) plan with a company match, medical/dental/vision coverage with inclusive provisions including transgender services and fertility benefits, parental and caregiver leave, dependent, commuter and FSA benefits, professional development programs like Toastmasters, and mental wellness tools.
If you need accommodation in our application process or have questions about our posted salary range, please email our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected].
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