Senior Cloud Engineer Job at BlackLine (Pleasanton)

Job Description

Get to Know Us: It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing! At BlackLine, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance. Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers. Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine! Make Your Mark: The Cloud Engineer is at the core of preparing for the continued exponential growth of Blackline’s SaaS product and other programs in the Technical Operations group that powers all of Blackline.

Job Responsibility

Manage AWS, GCP and/or Azure cloud environments
Install, configure, and upgrade SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB
Develop and implement backup and recovery strategies for databases
Manage the full lifecycle of DevOps tools, Jenkins, Artifactory, Consul and other tools as required including upgrades, patches and scalability enhancements
Build and manage cloud-based Kubernetes clusters
Configure, deploy, and scale open source software including: Ubuntu Linux, Docker, rkt, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Fluentd, Flannel, Elasticsearch
Contribute code back to open source projects to fix bugs and add features needed by our team
Write new components from scratch when there is no suitable open source project
Build sensors to monitor platform health and performance
Interact with customers to promote best practices and influence architecture to be cloud-native
Serve as technical lead for small projects and support medium to large projects
Troubleshoot and fix the system when it breaks
Share the responsibility of being on-call

Requirements

5+ years’ direct experience building or operating cloud native applications using Kubernetes and Docker
Proficiency with shell scripting and related tools
Proficiency with Linux SysOps or Windows SysOps tasks
Experience using Docker in production
Demonstrated experience developing or operating production web applications and basic understanding of HTTP(S), HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and XML
Intermediate knowledge of at least one of the following languages: C#, Visual Basic, PowerShell, Linux, ASP.NET, Ruby, Go or Java preferably in an agile SaaS environment
Exposure to Kubernetes in a bare metal/non-public cloud provider environment
Experience with open source platforms and technologies
Experience with software development processes and methodologies
Experience building cloud native/cloud first applications in a cloud environment such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure
Track record of developing and implementing robust, distributed online solutions
Can write clean, readable code
Familiarity with networking, comp sci stuff, and distributed systems
Eager to learn and soak in new information
Strong ownership, pride of work, and ability to take things across the finish line
Someone energized by a fast-paced, iterative approach
Expertise in using and managing cloud platforms and cloud native tools
Strong written and oral communication skills

What we offer

Short-term and long-term incentive programs
Robust offering of benefit and wellness plans

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