Rival Technologies Hiring for Junior DevOps Engineer at Vancouver, BC Full Time

Rival Technologies

Rival Technologies is looking for a Junior DevOps Engineer to join our rapidly growing team. You’ll bring experience supporting enterprise grade software delivery. This is an opportunity to experience the early days of a growing technology company that will allow you to put your signature on the direction of the architecture and engineering culture.

Reporting directly to the Senior DevOps Engineer, this role will own the final step of product delivery to production and is quick to react to any degradation of service. You like working closely with the development team to ensure they are using the right AWS resources and following best practices when configuring them.

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But, why us for your next career adventure?*

When you join Rival Technologies, you’re joining a high-growth startup solving a massive problem for the $76-billion research industry. We’re developing voice, video and chat solutions that allow global brands to get richer and more accurate insights on the attitudes, opinions and preferences of their customers.

By allowing companies to engage consumers via modern technologies that people use, we’re boldly taking the insights world to its next phase — and we’re looking for great talent to join this rocket ship. Could that be you?

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A few reasons why you should choose Rival: *You’ll be helping market a company with an innovative product and a lot of momentum.

• We are currently a remote-first workplace. We offer various stipends to make sure you are comfortable, connected and well set up in your space,
• A culture that’s built on trust and hard work, while still having a good time,
• Leadership that invests in you, your development and career growth,

• We have a lineup of customers many could only dream of working with, including Warner Bros., Jagermeister, the Vancouver Canucks and ViacomCBS,
• A Place for all Genders in Tech:

Gender diversity and equality benefits everyone. We’re committed to supporting all gender identities and expressions in tech by advocating for equality. We’re also proud to partner with forward-thinking organizations like Chic Geek and Next Gen Men, who continue to build a more vibrant, inclusive and diverse technology landscape.

• We compensate fairly. We are committed to pay equity/fair pay practices and closing the gender salary gap. Our compensation package proudly includes:
• Competitive base salary,

• Stock options,
• Annual education budget,
• 100% employer paid benefits plan including paramedical and mental health support,
• 4 weeks of vacation standard,
• Self-managed approach to sick, personal and mental health days,
• Company paid cell phone and internet stipends,
• Home office stipend to make sure you’re comfortable as we continue to work remote, and
• Parental leave top up just to name a few!

Interested? Yeah. We thought you might be.

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This Might Be The Role For You If: *

• You have a passion to automate repetitive tasks and for deployments to go smoothly.

• You write code for any task you do more than once, and cringe at the thought of making changes to systems without making changes in the code.
• You proactively look for opportunities to replace manual, repetitive processes with maintainable, repeatable code and tools.
• You have a drive to contribute in designing, testing and monitoring cloud infrastructures for ongoing performance improvement and cost saving.
• You’re a dashboard wizard and know how to create effective dashboards.

What You’ll Do:

• Infrastructure design* and *implementation: Implementing a continuous integration and continuous deployment platform, constantly improving infrastructure reliability, scalability, performance, and repeatability of setup and deployment
• System and network security: Proactively ensure security standards are being met and enforced as new infrastructure is added or changed within the development and production environments.
• Monitoring and alerting: Promptly identifying and escalating unexpected issues that arise within the production environment.
• Deployment management: Continually iterating on the automated build system and application deployment processes.
• Issue investigation: Assisting the development team with triaging production issues and managing unexpected incidents and outages.

What You’ll Have:

• Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 1+ years of experience in a DevOps or Software Engineering role working in a Cloud based environment, ideally with Amazon Web Services.
• Programming skills (JavaScript/Node.JS, Python, Go, Java, and/or C), and have worked with AWS-SDK with one or more of these languages.

• Solid experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestrations using Terraform AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, Shell scripts.
• Experience with CI/CD technologies (BitBucket Pipelines, AWS CodePipeline/CodeDeploy, Jenkins, etc.).
• Experience with translation of security controls and configurations into code and integrate in deployment pipelines.
• Experience working with databases and big data sets.
• Experience in a 24×7 production environment, troubleshooting skills at all levels (e.g. application, data, network, configuration, host, etc.).

• Experience with container technologies (Docker, AWS ECS, Kubernetes, etc.), microservices and serverless technologies.
• Ability to articulate technical problems in written, diagram and verbal forms.
• Ability to work across teams and across disciplines (Engineering, QA, Product Management, etc.).

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Experience with APMs (Datadog, New Relic, X-Ray, Stack Driver).

• Experience with performance testing and tuning.
• Experience with Cloud Security, automating host configuration and patching.
• Worked for a SaaS company previously.

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We can’t wait to meet you – apply now!*

If you think you’re a good fit, please connect with us ASAP with your resume. Please note, you must be eligible to work in Canada to be considered for this role. We thank everyone for their interest, however only successful applicants will be contacted.

If you don’t see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on the posting above, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We are committed to creating a more equitable, inclusive and diverse company and we strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientations, and life experiences to apply.

Rival Technologies welcomes applications from people with disabilities. Support is available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Finally, we know from time-to-time emergencies happen and you may need to reschedule an interview – we understand and encourage you to be in communication without worrying about losing the opportunity or your credibility.

COVID-19 UPDATE: Please note that all Rival employees are working remotely for the time being as the health & safety of our employees and their families is extremely important to us. All interviews will be conducted via Zoom and the position will be 100% work remote until internal work from home restrictions are lifted.

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No recruiters and no phone calls, please!*

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We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace committed to building a team culture that celebrates diversity and inclusion. Rival Technologies Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, age, ancestry, gender, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law._

Job Type: Full-time