[TW EC] Production (DevOps) Engineer

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.

A Little About Us

Our engineering teams are focused on delivering the best Ecommerce global products. We integrate with the entire product lifecycle so as to be able to provide support for the agility that is requisite in this industry. In this we are responsible for service quality, performance and delivery to Yahoo users across the globe. We leverage industry standards and best practices in order to achieve these high standards. Our team structure encourages trust, learning from one another, having fun, and attracting people who are passionate about what they do.

A Lot About You

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for production operations, capacity planning, performance management, deployment and release engineering. You will work with multiple cross-functional teams helping deliver the new and better experiences to our users while ensuring reliability and performance of the services. You are the type of person who will jump in to debug and fix things, multitasks and context-switches well. You have a strong understanding of best practices across a variety of disciplines including: Web Operation, System Administration, Release management, Performance Engineering and Network Operations.

Your Day

• Function as a technical generalist responsible for the overall health and performance of E-Commerce systems
• Primary responsible to online alert monitoring, and incident handling in a standard procedure of notification, problem resolving, fail out to BCP and escalations
• Develop tools to automate the deployment, administration, and monitoring of Linux and Microsoft Windows servers .
• Work with development teams or other supporting groups to harden, enhance, document, establish process and generally improve the operability of our systems
• Assist in the configuration/build-out of new deployments to facilitate our constant growth
• Maintain in-house development and production environments by complying with the concepts of DevOps or Service Reliability Engineering
• Must have on-call rotation and work with the frontier operational teams in worldwide
• Better have the hands-on experience on one of the CI/CD tools

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Education background in Computer Science or equivalent majors
• BS degree is must and the higher education level is better
• Fair verbal and written English communication skills
• Strong hands-on experiences on the LINUX environment with the ability to navigate, manipulate and understand the kernel technology.
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP network environment, load-balancers, DNS and other internet protocols
• Good knowledge on change, incident and BCP/DRP technologies
• Excellent skills to effectively communicate via phone and in writing
• Good self management skills, must be a self initiate and able to manage work priority effectively
• Working experience with other functions like Product, Software Development, Customer Service or Infrastructure related
• At least one year of experience on using UNIX shell script or other programming language on UNIX based platforms

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (

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Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements. 

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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