DevOps Engineer at Chefman (Mahwah, NJ)

Job Description

Chefman is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join the Software team. The role supports our Software team by managing the source code management system, automating builds and regression testing, building tools and monitoring software deployments, and coordinating and pushing new releases to the production infrastructure. The DevOps Engineer ensures that new software is released in a streamlined manner from development to production. As a DevOps Engineer, you'll work hard to ensure that Chefman’s products are delivered with a repeatable and scalable process.

This role will be based out of the Chefman office located in Mahwah, NJ. Salary is commensurate with candidate’s experience and successes.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Support and improve our tools for continuous build, automated testing and release management


• Own, manage and improve our release process


• Focus on scale and efficiency


• Build and maintain tools needed during release pushes


• Drive iOS and Android app releases


• Build and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) systems for devices


• Build scripts, tools, and other services to improve developer productivity


• Develop and support processes to maintain uptime and availability of critical platform components


• Branching, merging, and running other day-to-day engineering processes


• Support, monitor, and enhance automated regression systems and tests to support high quality deployment to production


• Serve as the go-to person for triaging test case issues


• Find the root cause for why the test is failing (is it the server, the device, a test case issue, a recent change, a bad config, bad procedure, a bug, network issue, cloud outage).


• Reproduce the failures seen, report errors, log bugs

Qualifications: Successful candidates will possess the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience


• 4+ years of experience in software engineering, release engineering, and/or configuration management


• Mastery of multiple modern platforms: Git, AWS, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Travis, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.


• Solid understanding of build systems for different programming languages: C/C++, Go, Python, Shell, etc.


• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Perl, JavaScript, Go)


• Familiarity with JavaScript testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Jasmine, and Chai


• Familiarity with the different type of tests: Unit Test, Integration Test, Smoke Test, Regression Test, Acceptance Test, and System Test


• Significant prior experience in release, production, SRE or DevOps engineering


• Ability to automate everything and ensure that build and packaging processes are repeatable, consistent and predictable with no guesswork left for developers


• Passionate about shipping well tested code

Desired Skills & Experience

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology


• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines on AWS using CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and AWS DeviceFarm


• Strong familiarity with software configuration management systems and/or source code version control systems, Subversion, Git and Mercurial experience


• Extensive knowledge of Unix/Linux


• Ability to move fast, break things, rebuild things faster and make a big impact to our organization


• Relevant Linux and Cloud certifications and trainings


• Experience working with scalable networking technologies such as Load Balancers/Firewalls and web standards (REST APIs, web security mechanisms)


• Familiarity with standard IT security practices such as encryption, certificates and key management


• Expertise working with embedded systems

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