DevOps Engineer - New York Shipping Exchange (NYSHEX)｜Meet.jobs

About the jobWHO WE ARE Have you ever stopped to wonder how your computer, clothes, furniture or household goods made their way to your doorstep? Most likely, almost everything you own arrived here in a container on a container ship. The global shipping industry is massive, complex, and has largely been done the same way for decades without much change or innovation. The lack of digital innovation and infrastructure in the global shipping space results in poor visibility, missed deadlines, and lost revenue for all parties involved. NYSHEX is building the digital infrastructure for global shipping. Our technology platform unites the entire ocean freight supply chain into a reliable, efficient, and trusted system for global commerce. Our solution helps Shippers, Carriers, and NVOCCs improve performance, strengthen relationships and reduce manual workload.

ABOUT THE ROLE 

DevOps Engineering at NYSHEX is central to providing the platform to transform the shipping industry. You will build, manage and support the technology infrastructure necessary to support all our teams from Engineering, to Operations, to Marketing. You will use AWS, Terraform, and other technologies to build a scalable, efficient infrastructure. You will create, implement and improve monitoring, alerts, and security practices for NYSHEX. You will collaborate with our Engineering and other teams to ensure that we are making the best strategic decisions as it pertains to our technology infrastructure and technology operations practices. 

This is a full-time role, based in New York City, with 3 days per week in the office. 

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

In this role, you will: 

 

Build and deploy infrastructure in AWS, using infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform

Manage a wide range of services including Postgres Databases, Java Microservices, Kafka, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Kubernetes and many more 

Respond to Ad hoc requests from Engineering team, management and others 

Develop and improve monitoring and incident alerting systems to maintain site performance 

Manage SaaS Services such as Jira Cloud, Notion, 2FA providers

Orchestrate our Container and Microservice architecture 

Collaborate with engineers on overall system architecture, scalability and maintainability 

Constantly work to identify and mitigate security concerns

Contribute to formal development and adoption of organizational policies

 

QUALIFICATIONS 

You are a great fit for this role if you have: 

 

3+ years of hands-on experience building, managing, and scaling 24/7 cloud infrastructures, using both AWS and Terraform IaC 

5+ years of Linux Systems Engineering experience – RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, AWS Linux 

Expert knowledge of Unix Principles and shell tools such as grep, awk, sed. AWS CLI. 

Scripting in Python & shell scripts 

Automation & Configuration Management – Ansible, Chef, Puppet 

Solid Database skills – RDS, Postgres, MySQL, Permission Grants, SQL Explain 

Monitoring, detecting problems without noise – DataDog, CloudWatch, Nagios

Experience managing the following in Production

 

 

Containerization (Docker) and container orchestration services – ECS, K8

Java Application Severs – JRE, Microservices

Messaging Systems – Kafka, Zookeeper

 

A thorough knowledge of networking, CDNs, and load balancing ELB

A strong command of system security and resiliency designs and best practices - 2FA

Experience contributing to implementation of infrastructure and security policies and procedures. IOS, HITRUST Auditing and Certification, SOC2 Compliance.

A solid mix of initiative, imagination, and work ethic

An understanding what it takes to work at a startup, including the need to ‘wear multiple hats’

Proactive, when issues that are discovered noting it & working towards solution 

 

You are an exceptional candidate for this role if you also have: 

 

A Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a related field 

Familiarity with a JVM ecosystem in a Microservices environment 

Previous experience and desire to mentor, reflect and contribute ideas—and implement changes for a better architecture and workflow 

 

NYC Salary Disclosure

In accordance with New York City Local Law 32, the expected salary for this role is between $160,000 and $190,000, plus a comprehensive benefits package. This role may be eligible for additional compensation in the form of bonuses and/or stock options as well. The bottom of our salary range represents the minimum for a candidate who meets the qualifications for the role. All offers to candidates will ultimately be based on that candidate's individual experience and skillset, and not every candidate will qualify for the top end of the salary range.  #LI-Hybrid