Sr. DevOps Engineer

Job Description

iHerb is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership to their DevOps team. The Senior DevOps Engineer will provide coaching, mentorship, and training, as well as shaping the technical road map and standards for iHerb’s DevOps team. This role will work closely with other Lead Developers in the organization to ensure proper support and alignment is in place to push new technologies to both front and back end services. The role involves:

• Working closely with Engineering Operations teams to ensure proper security, infrastructure, and standards are in place.
• Creating new concepts and designs by collaborating with the DevOps Engineers and other Lead Developers.
• Coaching and mentoring the team on DevOps best practices.
• Optimizing system architecture and project efficiency.
• Planning work and prioritization with the Project Manager.
• Providing technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.
• Providing regular updates on projects and team performance to the Director of IT Operations.
• Analyzing and resolving technical and application problems.
• Assessing opportunities for process improvement.
• Researching and evaluating a variety of software products.

Requirements include:

• Experience leading a team of System or DevOps Engineers.
• Full understanding and expert knowledge in tools and technologies such as CDN, DNS, Cloud base computing, Code Deployment, Configuration Management, etc.
• Experience with Linux.
• Expert in analyzing web traffic and identify problems and unusual trend.
• Skilled in organizing resources and establishing priorities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to learn and support new systems and applications.
• Expert knowledge and Experience to work with high traffic websites, update, monitoring, and maintenance strategies.
• Strong knowledge of HTTP protocol and IP concepts.
• Working knowledge of applications servers like SOLR, Redis, Docker.
• Experience writing shell scripts, php and other scripting languages.
• Strong knowledge of system architecture, best practices and design patterns.
• Strong knowledge of design and implementation of distributed systems.
• Expert knowledge of and ability to communicate system architecture and design principles.
• Proven track record being technical lead of DevOps projects from inception to successful release.
• Knowledge of source control systems.
• Accustomed with agile methodologies.
• Understanding of debugging, performance profiling and optimization.
• Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes.
• Familiar with E-Commerce.
• Generally, requires a minimum of five (5) to ten (10) years of experience with DevOps.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or related field preferred.

iHerb offers:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance programs.
• Company’s 401(k) plan.
• Time Off and Paid Sick Leave.
• Paid holidays.
• Restrict Stock Units and annual bonuses.