WebMD is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ancestry, color, religion, sex, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, medical condition, disability, veterans status, or any other basis protected by law.
- Assist developers in converting their applications to 12-Factor principles so that the apps can run cleanly in a containerized environment, and migrate cleanly from one environment to the next
- Set up, monitor, and debug CI/CD pipelines constructed in GitLab and Jenkins. This includes Docker container builds managed by bespoke Jenkins libraries, so the job will entail debugging and enhancing these libraries (written in Groovy) from time to time
- Assist developers in debugging application configuration, code questions, or debugging issues across various languages: PHP, NodeJS, Java, Ruby, .NET Core, and sometimes even Elixir
- Assist developers to introduce exception reporting and APM metrics into existing and new applications, to improve runtime performance and error monitoring
- Monitor, tune, and debug issues related to application health and Kubernetes cluster health
- Identify bugs or shortcomings in the platform and implement solutions to make the IKE Platform better for users and/or easier to maintain
- Required Skills:
- git, including management of remotes, branching/merging, and rebasing
- Basics of Jenkins: Jobs, Pipelines, webhooks
- Basic RDBMS design and tuning
- Linux "power user" skills
- Docker concepts:
- Builds, including multi-stage builds
- Layer management and caching
- Volume management
- Security
- Container networking and IPC
- docker-compose
- Use of Kubernetes: namespaces, core objects (Deployment, StatefulSet, PersistentVolumes, etc.)
- Familiarity with configuring and automating Prometheus metrics collection and Grafana dashboards
- Familiarity with principles of web application development:
- Configuration by convention (e.g. Rails, Laravel, etc.)
- Proxying server configurations (Nginx and/Apache)
- Exception reporting, logging, and performance metrics
- Good to know:
- Rancher kubernetes cluster management
- 12-Factor concepts and their real-life application
- Familiarity with as many programming languages and frameworks as possible: PHP/Laravel, NodeJS, Java/Spring Boot, Ruby/Rails, .NET Core, Elixir, Rust, Python/Django/Flask, etc.
- Experience with MVC frameworks in particular
Skills Required
- Git management, including remotes, branching, merging, and rebasing
- Basic Jenkins knowledge, including jobs, pipelines, and webhooks
- Basic relational database design and tuning
- Advanced Linux user skills
- Docker knowledge, including multi-stage builds, layer management, caching, volumes, security, networking, IPC, and Docker Compose
- Kubernetes experience with namespaces, Deployments, StatefulSets, PersistentVolumes, and core objects
- Prometheus metrics collection and Grafana dashboard configuration and automation
- Web application development principles, including convention-based configuration, Nginx or Apache proxy configuration, exception reporting, logging, and performance metrics
- Rancher Kubernetes cluster management
- 12-Factor application concepts and practical application
- Familiarity with multiple programming languages and frameworks, including PHP/Laravel, Node.js, Java/Spring Boot, Ruby/Rails, .NET Core, Elixir, Rust, Python/Django/Flask, and MVC frameworks
What We Do
Our Company: WebMD is a leading provider of health information services to consumers, physicians, healthcare professionals, employers and health plans. Our Business: WebMD is the leading provider of health information and services to consumers and healthcare professionals. The online healthcare information, decision-support applications and communications services that we provide: help consumers take an active role in managing their health by providing objective healthcare information and lifestyle information. make it easier for physicians and healthcare professionals to access clinical reference sources, stay abreast of the latest clinical information, learn about new treatment options, earn continuing medical education credits and communicate with peers. enable employers and health plans to provide their employees and plan members with access to personalized heath and benefit information and decision support technology that helps them make informed benefit, provider and treatment choices.
