Dev Ops Release Engineer
Who We Are:
Golden Hippo is an employee-owned, vertically-integrated, highly profitable direct-to-consumer marketer of health, beauty, and pet care brands that collectively generate $1 billion of revenue annually. Our employees are passionate about our mission to create best-in-class products across broadly appealing categories — to help people live their healthiest, happiest lives.
Our A-players are results-driven creative thinkers who like to move fast, get the job done, and have fun doing it. If you love to roll up your sleeves, take on exciting new challenges every day, and drive massive growth, we want to hear from you!
Why Golden Hippo:
Here at Golden Hippo, we work to develop best-in-class products, revolutionary marketing campaigns, and glowing customer experiences. We pride ourselves on our award-winning culture and incredibly diverse workforce. We intentionally strive to cultivate, create, and celebrate a rich, vibrant and inclusive culture of belonging where our employees feel respected and empowered. We also offer:
- Award-winning culture… Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company in Los Angeles 2021, Best Teams - Marketing 2021, Best Company - Leadership 2020, and more! Click here to view more.
- Competitive salary & bonus opportunities
- Flexible, remote work arrangements available for most positions
- Highly valuable employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
- Employer-paid benefits (medical, dental, vision, life, parental leave, and more)
- Generous matching 401K plan
- UNLIMITED room for growth and results-based pay increases
- Highly interactive, challenging work with a talented, diverse, passionate team
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities such as manager and employee development classes, Tuition Assistance Program, book club, film club, webinars, mentorship program, Hippo Talks, and much more
- Casual, "no dress code" atmosphere
- In-office gym & fitness classes, fully-stocked kitchen, plus regular yoga, meditation breaks, happy hours, and events
The role:
Golden Hippo is currently looking for a Dev Ops Release Engineer who will be responsible for designing, optimizing, automating, and executing on procedures for releasing code to our cloud environments. This role will be embedded in the daily implementation of bug fixes, innovation changes, and maintenance upgrades. You will be working with developers, engineering, and QA to tackle process improvements and identify new ways to release software quickly with a focus on quality and security.
What Your Day-to-Day Will Look Like:
- Design, Develop and Support development pipelines to deliver software to internal and external customers
- Constantly fine tune and Implement new procedures and technologies to improve software delivery speed and efficiency
- Support software systems to promote microservices/applications to prod and non-prod environments
- Act as a primary gatekeeper for code releases to Staging and Production environments following defined procedures including code reviews, QA, security scans, and roll back processes.
- Deploys new versions of code to staging and production
- Enforce quality and security standards in all relevant aspects of the release process
- Facilitate automation to integrate unit tests, security scans, code reviews, automated tests, deployments and reports through automated pipelines
- Evaluate new technologies, develop proof of concept demonstrations, and present findings to the engineering organization.
- Stay relevant with industry trends, technologies, and security standards
- Implement best practice procedures for process improvement including post mortems, process flow optimizations, and cross functional communication
- Support incident management and resolution for release related software issues
- Work with cross-functional teams to develop, improve, and enforce release planning and deployment processes
The Best Candidates Will Have:
- 4-5+ years of experience in release management
- Knowledge of LINUX, VHOST, Windows Servers
- Proficient in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment (GitLab)
- Automation experience with at least one configuration/deployment management system such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Chef.
- Strong knowledge of software branching (preferred using Git), software development lifecycle, QA methodologies, tools and processes
- Experience working with the following tools: Gitlab and GitHub, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Chef.
- Knowledge of NGINX.
- Experience working with at least one of the following languages: Node.js, Python, PHP, Bash.
- Previous experience with cloud is a must with AWS and Heroku.
- Attention to details
- Builds proactive plans to preempt system disruptions
- Solutions oriented
- Excellent communicator and collaborator with cross functional teams
- Ability to be strategic and execute fast in a fast pace environment
- Motivated and ambitious, interested in growing and developing
- Experience with eCommerce systems preferred
Equal Employment Opportunity
Golden Hippo strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation.
We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, for applicants in Los Angeles, California, and consistent with applicable laws in other areas.
Hiring Practices
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Golden Hippo recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Golden Hippo may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.
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