DevOps / IT Engineer - Remote

  • Full-time

Company Description

SMI Aware provides the legal industry with accurate social web screening of people and defensible preservation of any online content. Founded in 2011, SMI Aware is the longest-running social media evidence collection and preservation company. We have created proprietary technology that enables us to locate, analyze, and preserve information from social media, search engines, public records, and the deep web. We help law firms, legal professionals, and corporations analyze OSINT and social media evidence for use in due-diligence, investigations, and litigation support.

Job Description

As a DevOps / IT Engineer you will be responsible for managing the internal and external hardware infrastructure used for all operations at SMI Aware.  This includes internal network management and IT support as well as management and administration of external cloud based infrastructure (hosted on AWS), including AWS VPCs, firewalls, EC2 instances, FTP server, NoSQL DB sources, hosted MySQL services (Amazon RDS), and Lambda scripts. You will work in a highly collaborative and supportive environment across all stages of an agile software development life cycle, including architecture design, development, documentation, testing and operations.

Core Responsibilities and Tasks
- Understanding SMI Aware's core business model, and identifying technical solutions to improve the quality and efficiency of our products
- Manage AWS cloud infrastructure
- Maintain, monitor, and improve Application and AWS infrastructure in conjunction with the Engineering Team
- Identify opportunities to improve software performance and DevOps automation
- Implement DevOps automation solutions along with making product recommendations to improve user experiences and product capabilities
- Automate software deployments via GitHub
- The ability to communicate the rationale and processes behind technical decisions to non-technical people within the organization 
- Manage internal hardware and software infrastructure for a work from home environment
- Manage office hardware and IT related equipment (office router / firewall, etc.)
- Provide day to day technical support for SMI employees
- Periodically perform other duties and tasks based on the needs of the company
 

Qualifications

  • Linux Systems Administration (Ubuntu)
  • Shell scripting
  • Advanced AWS experience
  • Advanced MySQL DB management experience
  • Experience working within existing codebases in a Git environment
  • NodeJS application management experience
  • Remote systems administration experience (SSH, RDP, TeamViewer, VNC)

Beneficial Experience

  • Experience working in an Agile environment
  • WebSocket experience
  • AzureAD experience
  • GitHub automation experience
  • Experience with API and Database design
  • CI/CD experience
  • NoSQL experience
  • NodeJS sysadmin tools (PM2)
  • Containerization (Docker / Kubernetes, etc…)
  • PHP application management
  • AWS Lambda
  • Working knowledge of social network APIs
     

Additional Information

SMI Aware offers  Healthcare, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance, Simple IRA with company match, 15 days PTO per year and 10 paid holidays. All Employees work remotely.