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Devops System Engineer - (Hybrid) - Los Angeles California
Company: Westlake Services, LLC Location: Los Angeles, California
Posted On: 01/30/2025
Company Location:Westlake Services, LLC. - Corporate Office4751 Wilshire BlvdSuite 100Los Angeles, CA 90010, USAAbout Us:At WFS, we believe that our PEOPLE are our most important asset. We embody PASSION in everything we do, and we hope that you will too.Position Overview:The DevOps Infrastructure Engineer will be responsible for ensuring our systems are best-in-class for stability, observability, and enterprise application scaling in the financial services industry. This role will be part of a key growth initiative within WFS and will partner with the application development teams to ensure the services are performant to business expectations.Key Responsibilities: - Partner with DevOps teams to drive observability into our technology stacks and define metrics for improving I.T. service stability.
- Collaborate with engineering and DevOps to ensure services are scalable and resilient.
- Create feedback for continual improvement and evolution of non-functional requirements.
- Release and deploy foundational services to enable WFS engineering to move faster with confidence.
- Design and develop systems and processes that enable highly available & scalable systems.
- Design, build and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of WFS's services.
- Identify and eliminate bottlenecks to achieve breakthroughs in systems throughput.
- Leverage technologies such as Python, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Oracle, MySQL, Redis, ELK, Snowflake to advance WFS's platform.
- Champion best practices by collaborating with other teams in a culture that values technical design review.
- Mentor and pair with WFS engineers to build better software focusing on performance, self-healing systems, configuration as code, and application security.
- Participate in periodic on-call duties to solve issues, prevent recurrences, and minimize alert fatigue.
- Prototype and advocate for architectural improvements to achieve operational scalability and reliability.
- Work with service-facing engineers to release and deploy impactful code.
- Perform quantitative analysis to understand and scale WFS systems and manage cross-functional efforts to resolve scalability issues.
- Produce and advocate for preventative solutions with stakeholders and vendors.
- Make informed, data-driven decisions in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.Qualifications:
- 3+ years proven experience with automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins) and configuration management.
- Solid understanding of monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java) for automation and scripting.
- Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
- Strong system administration and infrastructure background.
- Experience with Bash or Powershell scripting.
- 5+ years experience with Linux/Unix systems administration and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge and hands-on experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker) and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with networking concepts, protocols, and troubleshooting techniques.
- Experience with server provisioning, configuration, and management.
- Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform - provisioning resources, administration.
- Knowledge of security practices, including data encryption.
- Experience with JIRA, ServiceNow, and GCP-based monitoring tools.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and work in a fast-paced environment.
- Willing to work on a hybrid schedule.Compensation:$100,000 to $130,000 USD per year. The exact starting compensation will be determined at the time of hiring based on various factors.Benefits:
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