Job details
Job type full-time contract
Full job description
The motley fool is looking for a highly skilled freelance devops engineer to join our team on a remote independent contract basis, 40 hours per weekThe contract will last 3-6 months.
Who are we?
We are the motley fool, a purpose-driven financial information and services firm with nearly 30 years of experience focused on making the world smarter, happier, and richerBut what does that even mean?! it means we’re helping fools (always with a capital “f”) demystify the world of finance, beat the stock market, and achieve personal wealth and happiness through our products and services.
The motley fool is firmly committed to diversity, inclusion, and equityWe are a motley group of overachievers that have built a culture of trust founded on foolishness, fun, and a commitment to making the world smarter, happier and richerHowever you identify or whatever winding road has led you to us, please don`t hesitate to apply if the description above leaves you thinking, `hey! i could do that!`
What would you do in this role?
Help us create world-class infrastructure (dashboards, monitors, etc) using sentry, datadog and opsgenie, and ensure they are working together to up-level our ability to monitor, alert and troubleshoot our complex systems.
Heartbeat type monitoring of processes and workflows, using opsgenie or datadog, where information is available through different meansFor example, an order confirmation job might need sql querying for validation that it ran correctlyMeanwhile, a zendesk ticket creation process might require integration with slack to monitor for issues.
Assist the team in expanding our ability to self-serve in this spaceOur goal is for the contractor to establish a solid foundation upon which we can build, including the knowledge to do so.
Deliverables:
Numerous cascading datadog dashboards that provide varying levels of insight into the health and wellbeing of our commercetech and markettech systems.
A robust safety net of datadog monitors that appropriately alert across a variety of situationsFor example, we want to be able to distinguish whether a specific endpoint is down due to a third party outage or some new and exciting issue.
Several at-a-glance type sentry dashboards to help us quickly identify new and exciting issues.
Effective workflows between datadog, sentry and opsgenie to ensure warnings and alerts are appropriately escalated.
Required experience and skills:
Expert-level experience with datadog and sentry.
Expert-level experience with ops genie or equivalent (pager duty, etc)
Significant experience mentoring co-workers
A teaching mentality
Very, very strong communicator - both verbal and written
A collaborative mindset
Even better if you have:
Sql experience (not required)
