Developer Tools/ DevOps Engineer

About Riverbed 

With a 20-year history of innovation, Riverbed is agile, yet proven, and we are disrupting the market with differentiated solutions that enable our customers to deliver secure, seamless digital experiences and accelerate enterprise performance While we are a ‘customer-first’ company, we are all about our people with a shared commitment to creating a global impact. We bring our best selves to work and pursue excellence, trust, and respect for one another. We welcome diversity and value and encourage transparency and open communication throughout the company. We strive to be an inclusive, fair, and enjoyable workplace for our people globally and care about their wellbeing. We are committed to our people, partners, and customers while supporting the communities where we work and live.

About the Role

The Engineering Operations team at Riverbed is a skilled team of developers who work with other teams to improve engineering productivity. Our team has a high standard for repeatability, reliability, and robustness in the tools and services that we deploy and maintain. Our objective is to streamline engineering’s operational practices and drive continuous improvements in quality, reliability, and efficiency. You’ll be working with collaborative, motivated, professional engineers who are intent on getting the right result, utilizing cutting-edge methodologies to create new tools and enhance existing ones. We are looking for passionate, out-of-the-box thinkers who want to take pride in building, releasing, and supporting cloud and on-premise applications and appliances.

Responsibilities

• Develop automation to reduce/remove manual operations (Python, Java, bash, ssh, Linux, git)
• Improve robustness by adding metrics, monitoring, and automatic recovery (Icinga, DataDog, PagerDuty)
• Rotate with other team members as first point-of-contact for helping others with tools and services (Jira, Confluence)
• Add functionality to CI/CD pipelines (Bamboo, Jenkins, Bitbucket)
• Work with the team using agile development processes (Scrum, Kanban)
• Maintain/update deployments in cloud environments (Ansible, AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, Kubernetes)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems and computer networking
• Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams
• Experience writing code in an Object-Oriented programming paradigm
• You are a good programmer that writes readable, testable, and maintainable code
• Strong Linux skills and have hands on experience to troubleshoot issues
• Strong and clear communicator that can concisely explain complex software design considerations
• Team player with a good sense of humor
• Willing to learn new technologies and skills as necessary

Apply through this link: https://go.illinois.edu/RiverbedDeveloperToolsDevOpsEngineer