POSITION OVERVIEW 

The Senior DevOps engineer designs and develops applications to deliver integration and automation solutions across Alarm.com's infrastructure and applications stack throughout theentire life-cycle. This position works closely with Engineering, Quality Engineering, Operations and Release Management in on-boarding of new and existing life safety and home automation applications to the cloud and serves as the main liaison between Release Management, Engineering and Operations in the delivery of automation solutions and software deployment frameworks from inception to development to production to maintenance. This role also works side-by-side with Engineering and Operations in all technical aspects of the Alarm.com cloud and applications with an ever-watchful eye on their availability, latency, performance, and capacity.

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Maintain and support our growing Kafka infrastructure
• Help advance our administration and reliability of Kafka through automation and testing
• Grow our Kubernetes pipelines and capabilities
•  Take leadership of platform reliability, operational excellence and developer experience
• Use expertise to provide technical direction to engineering teams on best practices for deploying and managing third party systems and custom software.
• Provide innovative solutions to increase reliability, performance and predictability of Alarm.com's systems and cloud.
• Architect and implements solutions to migrate on-premises workloads to the public cloud.
• Mentor and develop your teammates
• Identify and respond to production issues and participates in on-call support.
• Continue to build out our Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Kubernetes and other tooling.
• Maintain and grow our data tier services, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka and MySQL.
• Other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years of experience
• B.A. or B.S. (or higher level degree) in Computer Science or a similar engineering program with strong academic performance preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in Kafka/Confluent Capacity planning, installation, administration, and platform management
• Knowledge of Kafka Producer and Consumer concepts and Kafka distributed Architecture
• Experience with Kafka/ Confluent, Kafka SQL KSQL, Kafka Connect and the Kafka Streaming APIs
• Preferred - Certifications in Confluent Kafka, Cloud Technologies
• Experience with services such as Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, MySQL, NoSQL and other opensource technologies.
• Experience using a configuration management framework like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt.
• Knowledge of GitOps workflows.
• Experience with cloud technologies like Azure, AWS, VMware.
• Experience administrating Linux.
• Experience in monitoring and alerting practices using tools such as Data Dog, Grafana, Pager Duty
• Intermediate programing skills with a language like Python, PowerShell or Go

COMPANY INFO

Alarm.com is the leading cloud-based platform for smart security and the Internet of Things. More than 7.6 million home and business owners depend on our solutions every day to make their properties safer, smarter, and more efficient. And every day, we’re innovating new technologies in rapidly evolving spaces including AI, video analytics, facial recognition, machine learning, energy analytics, and more.  We’re seeking those who are passionate about creating change through technology and who want to make a lasting impact on the world around them. 

For more information, please visit www.alarm.com.

COMPANY BENEFITS

Alarm.com offers competitive pay and benefits inclusive of subsidized medical plan options, an HSA with generous company contribution, a 401(k) with employer match, and paid holidays, wellness time, and vacation increasing with tenure. Paid maternity and bonding leave, company-paid disability and life insurance, FSAs, well-being resources and activities, and a casual dress work environment are also part of our outstanding total rewards package!

Alarm.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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Notice To Third Party Agencies:

Alarm.com understands the value of professional recruiting services.  However, we are not accepting resumes from recruiters or employment agencies for this position. In the event we receive a resume or candidate referral for this position from a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to you. If you are interested in working with Alarm.com, please email your company information and standard agreement to [email protected]