As a DevOps Engineer, you will deploy product updates, identify production issues, and implement customer-focused integrations while ensuring systems' security and efficiency.
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Job Description and key responsibilities
To help us build functional systems that improve the customer experience, we’re looking for a DevOps engineer who can be responsible for deploying product updates, identifying production issues, and implementing integrations that meet our customers’ needs. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in software engineering, cloud environment (AWS preferred) and Linux system.
DevOps engineer will work with developers and engineers to ensure that software development follows established processes and works as intended. The DevOps engineer will also help plan projects and be involved in project management decisions.Responsibilities
- Building and implementing new development tools and infrastructure
- Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
- Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results
- Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
- Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and fixes
- Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
- Planning projects and being involved in project management decisions
- Perform root cause analysis of production errors and resolve technical issues
- Setup infrastructure observability dashboard
- Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance
Basic Qualification
- Master’s degree in software engineering and 2+ years professional experience in software development; OR 6+ years of experience in software development in lieu of a degree
- Significant experience as a DevOps engineer or in a similar software engineering role
- Development experience in Python, C, C++, Go, or Rust
Preferred skills ans experience
- Extensive hands-on experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef) and infrastructure-as-code frameworks (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Strong background in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell)
- Proficiency with Git and GitHub workflows
- experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Github Actions, CircleCI)
- Solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing)
- Knowledge of security best practices and experience implementing security measures in a DevOps environment
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team-oriented, cross-functional setting
- Working knowledge of databases and SQL
Soft skills:
- Passionate and curious about space technologies, green technologies, IT and OT world
- Problem-solving attitude
- Collaborative team spirit
- Ability to rapidly change roles/responsibilities while working in a high-paced, challenging work environment
Location:
Texas or Florida
Top Skills
Ansible
AWS
Bash
C
C++
Chef
CircleCI
CloudFormation
Docker
Git
Git
Github Actions
Go
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Linux
Powershell
Puppet
Python
Rust
SQL
Terraform
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