Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Overview 

CoStar Group (CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index, 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 Debt Solutions, CoStar Suites,  LoopNet,  Apartments.com,  Homes.com, and Ten-X. 

This position is located in Irvine, CA and has the work schedule of 4 days onsite and 1 day work from home. 

What qualities are we 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. 

Basic Qualifications:

• 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 
• Infrastructure as code using Cloudformation, Terraform or similar platforms 
• Heavy experience using AWS or Azure or Google cloud 
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes environments and supporting tooling
• Foundational understanding of AI/ML concepts and practical application as it applies to improving workflows, observability and team efficiency
• Heavy scripting support with PowerShell or Bash
• Conceptual understanding of SQL and No SQL databases, with the ability to evaluate and select appropriate solutions based on performance, cost and technical fit.  
• Experience with configuring Content Delivery Networks (CDN) for performance caching and global traffic management. 
• Familiarity with infrastructure foundation components of large networks in AWS and on-prem (e.g., systems & network administration, DNS, hypervisors, containers, databases, multi-datacenters). 

Nice to Haves:  

• Experience with enterprise monitoring tools in areas of APM, syst