About the Role
Summit is seeking a Production Engineer in the Washington, D.C. area to support one of our software partners.
Production Engineers help build, operate, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and reliable services for our software partner’s platforms, products, and deployments. Production Engineers combine engineering experience and an innate drive to improve existing systems and processes, with the creativity to develop novel solutions to evolving challenges. Our team strives to automate processes wherever possible, using whichever tools are best for the job.
We strongly believe in engineering teams being responsible for the operations of their services in production. In this role, you’ll work closely with engineers to advocate and participate in sensible, scalable, systems design and share responsibility with them in diagnosing, resolving, and preventing production issues.
Requirements
Core Responsibilities
Handle support and operations of software, including monitoring and alerting, configuration management, and upgrades.
Rollout new products at customer deployments and perform migrations to the latest infrastructure types.
Debug, improve, and optimize services and infrastructure with a focus on long-term reliability and scalability.
Reduce manual operations and automate processes, runbooks, and/or workflows where possible.
Participate in a 24/7 on-call support rotation, one out of every 4 weeks.
Technologies We Use
Amazon Web Services and on-premises servers.
CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Prometheus and Grafana.
Oracle, Postgres, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch.
Puppet, Ansible, Python, Java and Bash.
What We Value
Experience with Java, Python, Bash, and be comfortable coding and/or utilizing tooling built in these languages.
Strong debugging skills and ability to deep dive into technical problems.
High quality execution with extreme detail orientation.
Strong operational skills.
Proactive and strong written and verbal communications.
What We Require
US Security Clearance – TS/SCI with CI Poly.
DoD 8570 IAT Level 1 Certification (Sec+, CISSP, etc.).
DoD 8570 Computing Environment Certification (Linux+, Redhat Certified System Administrator, COMPTIA Server+, etc.).
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