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, system vitals, synthetics and RUM.
• Programming languages / some developer background with either Java, C#, Python, NodeJS
• Server-less architecture methodologies
• Familiarity with PCI compliance and remediation
• Mobile application support (iOS, Android)
• Experience in REST API or Microservices development
• Agile methodologies and working on short sprint cycles

What’s in it for You

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, and tuition reimbursement.

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
• Access to CoStar Group’s Employee Resource Groups
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

This position offers an annual salary range from $169,000 - $202,000 determined by relevant skills and experience, in addition to a generous benefits plan.

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing