Listing Description

The DevOps Engineering  team is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Contract) to manage production infrastructure and development pipelines primarily using AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Bring your thorough, practiced understanding of DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure to this team where you will be expected to make an impact. As a member of this team, this Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will help shape The RealReal's production infrastructure and Engineering culture.

This contract position is open to remote candidates outside the United States in North/South America and will report to the Sr. Manager of DevOps Engineering.

What You Get To Do Every Day

• Maintain and evolve our AWS and GCP cloud infrastructure, employing automation, and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform


• Build and maintain our code pipelines, designing and building automation in order to enable agile software development, using self-service where possible


• Collaborate efficiently and effectively with Software Engineers and Product teams on complex problems


• Build and contribute to infrastructure services such as Kubernetes/EKS and core AWS Services.


• Quickly absorb context and knowledge while ramping up and using that to build or bolster documentation


• Keep a strong level of quality and velocity in your work, while collaborating and reporting when appropriate


• Exercise and promote security best practices throughout your workflow


• Participate in an on-call rotation on a regular basis and respond to incidents reliably and professionally

What You Bring To The Role

• 5+ years combined experience in DevOps, Site Reliability engineering and/or Cloud administration


• 3+ yrs experience with Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, GCP)


• 2+ years automation experience using popular languages (bash, python, etc); software development background a plus


• 2+ years professional experience with UNIX-based Operating Systems


• 1-3 years experience with Terraform, Ansible, Chef as part of building and releasing infrastructure as code


• Experience with Kubernetes and Containerization


• Experience building Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) workflows


• Experience with logging, metrics, APM and observability tools such as DataDog


• Experience tuning and troubleshooting performance for high traffic web services


• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle


• Strong understanding of networking and common network protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, SSL/TLS, and relevant diagnostic tools


• Database fundamentals and experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL


• Git and Github workflows

Nice to Haves

• Experience with NoSQL Databases such as ElasticSearch/OpenSearch


• Experience with Kafka or AWS MSK


• Experience deploying microservices environments


• Experience converting applications to run in Docker containers, and with orchestration layers


• Computer Science or Engineering degree

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