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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 Senior DevOps Engineer will work as part of a highly collaborative team on developing and maintaining fully automated build and deployment systems. Recommend process improvements to ensure system scalability and reliability. Assist in developing and implementing various tools and scripts and perform deployments as per the needs of the business.
You'll Get To:
- Ensure high availability of a SaaS platform that is built primarily around Ubuntu Linux, PHP and other open-source technologies.
- Work closely with development teams to ensure that our infrastructure is fully aligned.
- Create and maintain software build and deployment pipelines using Python, GoCD, Ansible, Github, Terraforms and Bash.
- Automate server provisioning using Ansible, Packer and Python.
- Perform software releases to production and other client facing environments.
- Debug and resolve application and cloud hosting issues.
- Collaborate with development and other technology teams on requirements definition, capacity planning, and process improvements.
- Adhere to existing operational processes and maintain operational documentation.
- Monitor industry trends and keep abreast of new tools and technologies.
- Contribute knowledge, skills, and personal qualities to a dedicated team of top engineers solving real-life problems in a bleeding-edge, high-performance, and high-traffic environment.
What You'll Bring:
- BS or MS in Computer Science (or equivalent diploma and/or certifications) or relevant industry experience
- Minimum of 3-5 Years of Experience in Related Field
- Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Delivery, experience and understanding of build pipelines and deployment strategies
- Hands-on experience with Git, Docker, container technology, MySQL on AWS Aurora
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of scripting in Python3 and the Boto3 library
- Experience of building and configuring Apache and Nginx servers on Linux
- Experience of using Terraform and AWS to build infrastructure. Committed to building everything with code.
- Experience with Observability tools Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, etc.
- Experience of working closely with an agile development team
- Excellent knowledge of IP networking, both IPv6 and legacy IPv4
- Solid understanding of core internet protocols, DNS, TCP, UDP, HTTP(S) etc.
- Experience with troubleshooting distributed applications in a production environment
- Good knowledge of and hands on experience with AWS VPC, EC2, ECR, ECS, ELB, Cloudfront, WAF, Cloudflare etc.
- Experience with configuration management using Ansible (or Puppet / Chef / Salt
We're Even More Excited If You Have:
- Experience with various file formats such as JSON, Avro, and Parquet.
- Experience with event-driven architecture/systems and messaging platforms.
- Experience with Hive, open-source / data bricks delta lake or Iceberg or Hudi
- Experience with Google Cloud or a similar cloud provider.
Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:
- A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!
- A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
- A culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.
BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.
BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 2 days a week.
