DevOps Engineer at Fanxchange (Toronto, ON, Canada)

Who We Are

Fanxchange provides a live event ticketing platform for major loyalty programs, financial institutions, distribution partners and e-commerce marketplaces; providing their users access to tickets for every major sports, concert and theater event in North America. Millions of tickets are handled through our system daily and growing each day.

We pride ourselves on the diversity of experience, and culture in our team. We believe that having open communication between all areas of the business is essential to providing the best possible product to our users. At Fanxchange, you will be given the support to explore and take on initiatives that interest you.

We are excited to bring on passionate and driven individuals who are looking to grow themselves along with us.

Your Role

Fanxchange has a full-time opportunity available for a DevOps Engineer in our Toronto office. The successful candidate will join Fanxchange’s DevOps team. The ideal candidate is someone who is well versed in modern DevOps methodologies, comfortable proposing new ideas and solutions, and passionate about learning new technologies and tools.

As part of a small team, you will play a key role in the following:

Production & UAT Environment Administration & Support:

Creating Scalable, Secure Infrastructure in our AWS environment
Production System Uptime Management & Issue Monitoring (Datadog)
Log Management (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana)
Application Deployments Support & Automation (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins)

Developer Support:

Assist Development team in creating Build Systems & Build Automation for Python Applications (Jenkins, UWSGI)
Configuration management (Ansible)
Creating and maintaining Pre-Production Environments (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins)
Integrating infrastructure tools with Source-Code Version Control Systems (Github)

Infrastructure Support:

System provisioning and configuration management (Ansible, Fabric)
Support process improvements using automation, tools, scripts
Application troubleshooting, performance tuning, scaling
After-hours system operations support as part of on-call team

Skills & Qualifications

Experience working / developing in a full-stack Python, Java, Ruby or Golang shop
Application Server provisioning and administration experience (ex NginX, HAproxy, Uwsgi)
Excellent knowledge of the Linux Operating System (RedHat-based distributions)
Database administration experience
Experience writing and maintaining system monitoring checks (Datadog)
Coding experience, particularly infrastructure automation scripting
Knowledge of Application Development & SDLC Best Practices
Familiarity with Agile software development processes

Nice To Haves

Containerization experience
Cloud networking experience
Source-Code Version Control knowledge
Bash & python experience
Ansible / Puppet / Chef experience
Degree in Computer Science / Engineering

Just a Few Perks

$360 per year for gym Memberships or towards fitness activities
$1,000 per year towards live event tickets (Sports, Concerts or Theatre)
Friday beer fridge or soda
Well-stocked pantry full of snacks
Newly renovated office with ping pong table close to transit in the heart of downtown
Sponsored team events and lunches
Medical & dental benefits for employee and family members
Seriously sweet tech stack - something you can be proud of