Lead DevOps Engineer

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Job Description

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Overview

CoStar Group 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.   

As CoStar’s next  Lead DevOps Engineer, you will have a direct impact on highly visible web applications that touch millions of users.  You continuously learn emerging technologies and architecture advancements and apply the learnings to improve CoStar’s software products. We are searching for an exceptional Senior DevOps Engineer in Richmond, VA to support CoStar’s software products.

This position is in Richmond, VA and is in office 4 days and work from home Friday.

Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally with Product teams to manage systems and services that provide reliable and scalable solutions

• Utilize continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) using latest DevOps tools and innovative methods

• Pro-active monitoring, analyzing metrics, implementing best practices, and strong troubleshooting skills.

• Create Cloud Architecture and designs based on project requirements

• Creating processes and integrating around new and upcoming technologies

• Have the freedom to build what is necessary based on customer needs

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an in-person, accredited, not for profit university.

• 7+ years’ experience with automation Skills (Config Management, Scripting, IAC, Security)

• 7+ years’ experience with hybrid cloud and on-premises environments (AWS, VMware, Azure) 

• Knowledgeable in at least one programming language (C#, Nodejs, Golang, Python, Rust)

• 4+ years’ experience with managing Highly Available environments (Active-Active), CDN (Akamai, Cloudflare), Load Balancing Technologies (ALB, NLB, F5)

• 4+ years’ experience with monitoring tools in areas of APM, synthetics and RUM (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK, AppDynamics)

• 4+ years’ experience managing containerized environments (Kubernetes, ECS , EKS, Fargate) and related infrastructure

• Experience using build and deployment tools such as Helm, YAML, Terraform, ArgoCD and Chef

• Experience working in Linux and Windows environments.

• Track record of commitment to prior employers

Preferred Qualifications And Skills

• Some development background in a coding language

• Familiarity with PCI compliance and remediation 

• Experience in REST API or Microservices development

• Assisted in training of other engineers

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 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

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.

The final salary or hourly rate offered for this role will fall within the range set forth below based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.

Base Compensation: $145,000.00-$216,000.00 Annually

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