Cloud IT Systems/DevOps

Who we are:
American Innovations protects people and the environment by providing proven compliance solutions to oil and gas professionals from the field to the office. More than 30 years of experience drives innovative solutions that address the need for efficient data collection, reporting, and analysis – an integrated family of hardware, software and professional services backed by relentless customer service.

Are you ready for the next chapter in your professional career? Are you looking to join a company that is the leader in our core market and is rolling out our next generation of products now? Join our IT team and take our company to the next level!

What we can offer you:

• Competitive benefits focused on your physical well-being, including Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance and company-provided Life and Disability.
• Programs to improve your financial well-being, including a 401(k) plan with an employer match up to 4% with immediate vesting and financial education courses.
• Opportunities to give back to the community, including paid volunteer hours.
• Supportive and collaborative environments, happy hours, and fun events.
• Assistance to further your learning and development.
• A rewarding culture, with a focus on positive business practices and protecting the environment.

What you can offer us:

• Ensure timely and efficient delivery of IT services to address customer needs and achieve a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Manage existing IT systems, virtualization infrastructure, public cloud infrastructure, and resources to ensure their availability, security, capacity, and functionality.
• Set up new systems and cloud infrastructure according to CIS Benchmarks and implementation best practices
• Ability to maintain and build documentation about systems’ setup, updates/changes, and use in order to preserve and spread related knowledge.
• Set up and utilize automated infrastructure management through the utilization of DevOps and configuration management processes.
• Manage the company network and security infrastructure – switches, firewalls end-point protection systems.
• Apply policies and processes to monitor and maintain the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of IT systems and to reduce risks associated with vulnerabilities or misuse.
• Ensure that security testing tools (SAST, DAST, SCA) are integrated into the CI/CD pipeline and functioning correctly.
• Perform IT Systems access right audits and maintain IT systems risk registers.

What will help you succeed in this role:

• Extensive knowledge of Windows and Linux server setup, Azure cloud resources provisioning, administration, and day-to-day management
• Minimum of 3 years of experience with management of Virtualization Infrastructure (Kubernetes, VMWare, Proxmox).
• Minimum of 3 years of experience implementing Azure DevOps and GitHub solutions as well as orchestration and automation tools such as CHEF, SALT, or Puppet, and ANSIBLE.
• Extensive experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.
• Extensive experience in Shell, Python, and PowerShell scripting.
• Extensive experience with Infrastructure as a code (IaC) provisioning tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with security tools for static analysis (SAST), dynamic analysis (DAST), and software composition analysis (SCA) such as SonarQube, Aqua Security, or Snyk.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience with management of network infrastructure and firewalls – Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Checkpoint.
• Experience with managing VDI infrastructure, such as Parallels or Citrix.
• Experience with vulnerability management and endpoint protection systems – Nessus, CroudStrike, Bitdefender, Carbon Black, Sentinel One.
• Experience with MS Active Directory policy management and MDM solutions such as Intune, Jamf, Hexnode, NinjaOne.
• Experience with setup and management of services monitoring systems –OpenNMS, Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Experience with backup solutions – Veeam, Nakivo, Netbackup
• Experience with logging and SIEM systems – LogRhythm, AlienVault, ELK Stack, Splunk SIEM
• Familiarity with Change Management, Incident Management, and Problem Management processes and experience documenting activities associated with such processes.
• ITIL certification is a plus.

Successful applicants must be eligible to work in the US and must be able to pass a pre-employment background and drug test.? American Innovations is an?equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for?employment?without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.