DevOps Engineer V (McLean, VA or Sunnyvale, CA)

$174,705 - $187,584/Yr

Id.Me - Mountain View, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Mountain View, CA

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

ID.me is looking for a DevOps Engineer V to add to our rapidly growing engineering team. This role is pivotal in advancing the digital identity ecosystem, and we are seeking a talented individual who excels in technical leadership and enjoys the challenges of setting up and scaling large infrastructures while improving security vulnerabilities. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable and performant production infrastructure, ensuring reliability across our systems, and acting as the technical leader for DevOps and SDLC initiatives. This position requires a strong focus on troubleshooting and debugging infrastructure issues, assisting in remediating audit and compliance findings, and working closely with our security operations team to enhance our security posture and manage vulnerabilities across our systems. Additionally, the role involves identifying and remediating scaling issues, maintaining data warehousing and other critical infrastructure, and participating in on-call duties for production issues. Candidates must be located in Washington DC (McLean, VA) or San Francisco Bay (Sunnyvale, CA) as this role requires an onsite presence.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable and performant production infrastructure, improving and ensuring reliability across our systems.
• Act as the technical leader for DevOps and SDLC initiatives.
• Troubleshoot and debug infrastructure issues.
• Assist in remediating audit and compliance findings.
• Work with our security operations team to improve security posture and manage vulnerabilities across our systems.
• Identify and remediate scaling issues (i.e PostgreSQL connection pooling).
• Assist in maintaining data warehousing and other critical infrastructure.
• Participate in on-call duties for production issues.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience working in medium or large scale production systems.
• Experience with CI/CD practices and platform tools (GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkins etc.).
• Strong background with HashiCorp technologies (Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad).
• Experience with public cloud technologies, preferably GCP and AWS.
• Experience with IaC/orchestration tools (Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience in PostgreSQL.
• Experience in scripting (ie Bash, Python, and/or Ruby).
• Experience in Linux/Unix administration and solid networking knowledge.
• Previous or current application development experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Must have an obsession for building quality products.
• Ability to thrive when there are changing priorities and shifting of gears.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Must be a team player with a strong, self-managing work ethic.
• Must be a self-starter with a passion for security engineering, learning and continuous improvement.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Health savings account and flexible spending accounts (medical, limited purpose, dependent care, commuter benefit accounts).
• Basic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Parental leave.
• Unlimited paid time off subject to the terms and conditions of the PTO policy, including 8 company-wide holidays.
• Short and long-term disability insurance.
• Accident and critical illness insurance.
• Referral bonus policy.
• Employee assistance program.
• Pet insurance.
• Travel assistant program.
• Wellbeing and childcare discounts.
• Benefit advocates.
• Learning and development benefit.