What are the responsibilities and job description for the DevOps Engineer position at Buyers Edge Platform?
Who are we?
Buyers Edge Platform stands at the forefront of revolutionizing the foodservice industry through technology, purchasing power and partnerships. We are dedicated to empowering stakeholders across the entire foodservice ecosystem (operators, distributors, manufacturers) with efficiency and unprecedented visibility. With a diverse portfolio of over a dozen brands, our mission is clear: to reduce costs, streamline the foodservice supply chain, and propel the industry from manual to automated.
Today, we are one of the largest players in foodservice, with over 200K operator locations across North America and over $50 billion of aggregated spend volume. Our commitment to foodservice excellence is proven in four distinct areas of value: Digital Procurement Network, Fresh Solutions, Supply Chain Management, and Software. Buyers Edge Platform is not just a provider - we are a strategic partner on the journey towards a more efficient, connected, and automated future for the foodservice industry.
This position is remotely based, or it can also be hybrid out of one of our offices. We are unable to offer work sponsorship for this role.
We are seeking a DevOps Engineer who will be help improve the reliability, cost efficiency and operational efficiency of our hosted infrastructure and internally developed applications that power the business.
Your impact:
- Support and improve our CI/CD pipeline tools to support the development teams working on a variety of software products.
- Create relationships with the development teams to progress towards common goals.
- Monitoring and maintaining computer systems and networks.
- Infrastructure as code, develop tools to deploy infrastructure for development environments.
- Containerize applications to improve deployments and application resilience.
- Work closely with development and quality assurance teams to streamline and improve workflows.
- Ensure infrastructure can scale dynamically and recover from disaster scenarios.
- Responding in a timely manner to service issues and requests
- Good understanding of security benchmarking
- Managing development resources and access controls
- Occasional after-hours work
- Internal tooling development to improve operational efficiency and self-service solutions.
- Collaborate with internal teams and stakeholders to improve internal tooling.
About you:
- Four-year degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Information Security or equivalent
- 2 years' experience in a DevOps position
- 3 years' experience in Software Engineering.
- 2 years' experience with Amazon Web Services
- Experience running Kubernetes / EKS in production environments.
- Understanding of at least one scripting language such as Bash, Python, or GOLang, with a preference for GOLang
- Familiarity with CI tools like CircleCI, Jenkins, Github Actions and GitLab
- Professional experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet and Chef.
- Strong knowledge with an orchestrator tool such as Terraform or Cloud Formation.
- Git
- Experience with monitoring tools, APM, Logging and Infrastructure.
- Brief Experience working with MySQL, Amazon Aurora, and Redshift.
What's in this for you?
Amazing coverages to start. Medical, dental, and vision coverages are just the beginning! We also offer ancillary plans, such as flexible spending accounts for both health and dependent care, critical illness, accident, and voluntary life as well as company paid life and long-term-disability plans! On top of this, we also offer a 401(k) plan with company match.
Invest in your success.We will provide you with a thorough training and development program; and offer competitive compensation.
Live well = Work well. Relax with our Personal Responsibility Paid Time Off policy where you don't have to accrue time off in order to take it!We also offer half-day Summer Fridays!
We welcome all.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard toactual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.
