Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

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Job Description

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Overview

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces.  Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. 

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers.  We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors.  We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation.  This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors.  By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.   

We are currently seeking an accomplished Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team, while supporting our multiple software products and brands across the organization, such as Lender, CoStar Suites, LoopNet, Apartments.com, Homes.com, and Ten-X.

This position is located in Arlington VA and has the work schedule of 4 days onsite and 1 day work from home.

What qualities we are looking for?

• An individual with a sense of ownership and pride in his performance and its impact on company’s success and can work in a fast-paced environment, supporting multiple software products and brands across the organization such as www.apartments.com, www.costar.com and www.loopnet.com

• An Individual who is passionate about automating and leveraging DevOps principles, always striving for operational excellence with infrastructure-as-code mentality.

• An individual who lives and breathes continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) using latest DevOps tools and innovative methods

• An individual with proactive and go-getter attitude who works well in a team environment as an individual contributor

• An individual who is comfortable in a development and operations role

• An individual who has a thirst for learning new tools, platforms and languages

• An individual who communicates and collaborates well with teams in IT and business organizations within the company

• A critical thinker with good problem solving and time management skills and an ability to multi-task

• An individual with strong communication skills, expresses oneself clearly both verbally and in writing.

• Provides help to management, including hiring, on-boarding, training and performance reviews.

• Motivates team members and assesses performance, keeps management updated on team performance.

What essential qualifications and skills we are looking for?

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, in-person, not for profit university or college

• A track record of commitment to prior employers

• 5+ years’ experience with managing heavy web traffic sites using mass scale architecture with a developer focus

• Solid sizing and estimation techniques for small to medium size tasks and projects

• Configuration management tools (e.g., Chef, Puppet, Ansible)

• Infrastructure as code using Cloudformation, Terraform or similar platforms

• Some experience in AWS or Azure or Google cloud

• Application load balancing technologies such as F5 LTMs, including management of VIPs, pools, nodes, iRule authoring, SSL offloading.

• Experience with enterprise monitoring tools in areas of APM, system vitals, synthetics and RUM.

• Heavy scripting support (PowerShell), Bash, Ruby, Groovy