Leaf Group is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join us at our Santa Monica, CA office.

Leaf Group is a diversified Internet company that builds platforms to enable communities of creators to reach passionate audiences in large and growing lifestyle categories. We create amazing experiences that celebrate the best of art, design and technology. We want people with an intense curiosity, a commitment to high quality service, who embrace the fun of the journey. Come help us disrupt and transform the digital media and art world!

We work in a fun, collaborative environment that is diverse, adventurous, and open-minded. We encourage all of our employees to learn and grow personally and professionally so they can assume greater responsibilities and advance their careers within the department or within one of our operating businesses. Check us out here: https://www.leafgroup.com/brands/

A typical day as a DevOps Engineer might include:

• Work with software development and operations departments to deploy and operate software systems.
• Develop software for systems automation.
• Develop software tools for cloud infrastructure.
• Develop web-based tools and microservices.
• Define workflows, good practices, and pipelines for software continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations.
• Configure, install, and monitor web and application servers.
• Perform administration and maintenance of version control systems.
• Work with business units on day-to-day operations.
• Build and improve infrastructure development workflows.
• Utilize various tools to orchestrate solutions from high-availability systems.
• Design and implement build, deployment, and configuration management systems.
• Document engineering processes contribute to Quality Assurance process and improve processes for delivery software to production systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, quality assurance, and production environments.
• Improve communication and collaboration between IT and software development departments.
• Utilize version control system: Git, Subversion.
• Utilize Programming languages: Python, Groovy (Java scripting) and Golang.
• Utilize operating systems: Linux and UNIX.
• Utilize continuous integration and delivery systems: Jenkins, Ansible, and Puppet.
• Work with storage systems: NetApp, SolidFire.
• Utilize monitoring systems: Ganglia, Kibana, Grafana, Instana. 

What You Have:

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree, or a foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related, and one year of experience in the job offered or as Software Developer, Software Architect or related (will accept five years of experience in lieu of a Bachelor’s degree).
• Experience must include: Architecting software for developing, deploying and testing web applications; Developing solutions and applications implemented for quality assurance purposes; Installing and configuring version control systems; Designing front-end and back-end components of application features; and Python, relational databases, website architecture and UNIX/Linux (will accept any suitable combination of education, training or experience).

What We Have:

• Winner of Comparably's 2018 Best Company Los Angeles Award and 2017 Best Company for Diversity Award
• Winner of Built In LA's 2019 Top Companies to Work for
• Well+Good is the 2018 winner of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company Award
• MyPlate is the 2018 winner of the Webby Award for Best Design
• Competitive compensation and benefits packages (i.e., Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, 401K)
• Cool office environment and culture
• Discounted gym memberships
• Paid-to-play vacation rewards
• Discretionary unlimited vacation time
• Employee discounts for Saatchi Art, Society6, and Deny Designs

Leaf Group, Ltd. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants for all job openings are welcome and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or any other basis protected by state, federal, or local law. It is the intent of the Company to comply with all applicable federal, state, and local legislation concerning equal opportunity in employment.

Agency Disclosure:
If the Leaf Group Talent Acquisition department, or any current company employee, receives an unsolicited resume from a third party recruiting agency and Leaf Group does not have a signed Agency Agreement active, Leaf Group will not be deemed liable to pay a placement fee. The unsolicited resume will be considered a gift and can be considered for our recruitment efforts.