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BrightTALK brings professionals and businesses together to learn and grow. Over 10 million professionals engage with 100,000 free talks and 1,000 online summits to discover new technologies, learn from trusted experts and grow their careers. Thousands of businesses acquire and inspire their ideal audience with BrightTALK's AI-powered content and demand marketing platform. 

We are looking for a talented and passionate DevOps Engineer to join BrightTALK’s Operations team, working as part of our Global DevOps team.

The DevOps team is responsible for the ongoing monitoring, scaling, code deployment and health of our busy platform.

We’re a bright, friendly and hard-working team working on unique and interesting challenges that keep us continually learning and improving. Our DevOps team works closely with our software engineers and is part of the project from the initial business requirement to final production deployment - this provides plenty of scope for innovation.

Responsibilities: 

The DevOps Engineer role integrates significant Linux experience, AWS knowledge, scripting abilities, information security and debugging skills to implement continuous integration, delivery and deployment to optimize the operational aspects of our platform. The DevOps Engineer background includes experience in large-scale system administration and familiarity with Open Source and cloud services technologies, such as Jenkins, Docker and MySQL.

Key Responsibilities

• Help to maintain the overall health and performance of our web applications and services
• Build up and implement reliable infrastructure components to deliver highly scalable services on the AWS platform
• Automate the deployment, administration and monitoring of our large-scale Linux environments
• Work with development teams to enhance, document, establish a process and improve the operability and security of our systems

Skills and Experience

• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies, cloud services and automation tools e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Jenkins
• Solid scripting skills in one or more of: Python, Bash, Perl, Ruby, PHP
• Familiarity with large-scale databases and proficiency in SQL, MySQL.
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
• Experience working with containers such as Docker 
• Experience writing tools for automation, configuration and build
• Experienced with source code control (GitHub or Bitbucket)
• A positive and creative approach to problem solving
• Strong communication skills and an ability to work with people from multiple technical disciplines e.g. dev / QA / product
• Experience building and maintaining production systems on AWS using EC2, RDS, S3, etc. and familiarity interacting with the AWS CLI is essential, AWS Certification is desirable
• Experienced with source code control (GitHub or Bitbucket)
• Strong background in Linux/Unix administration
• Proven track record in taking responsibility for the delivery of projects.

Why we like working at BrightTALK

• Friendly, talented, collaborative and entrepreneurial teams
• Generous and comprehensive benefits including 100% healthcare
• Generous holiday policy, flexible schedule and 4 weeks of PTO in your first year at BrightTALK
• 401k matching program
• Offices located in top destination cities
• Training allowance and regular innovation days
• Team building and paid volunteer time

We are dedicated to learning and growing, going after big dreams, taking ownership, remaining open and honest while recognizing we are in it together. We are committed to hiring individuals with a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and beliefs who can use their passion to help us build a world changing audience and thrive along the way. Join BrightTALK and experience a collaborative and engaged team who works together to provide learning and growth opportunities for businesses and professionals. 

BrightTALK is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.