DevOps Engineer

$89,100 - $118,900/Yr

Golden Hippo - Los Angeles, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Los Angeles, CA

1,001-5,000 employees

About the position

The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for designing, optimizing, automating, and executing procedures for releasing code to cloud environments. This role involves collaborating with developers, engineering, and QA teams to implement bug fixes, innovation changes, and maintenance upgrades, with a focus on improving software delivery speed, quality, and security.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and support development pipelines to deliver software to internal and external customers
• Constantly fine-tune and implement new procedures and technologies to improve software delivery speed and efficiency
• Support software systems to promote microservices/applications to production and non-production environments
• Act as a primary gatekeeper for code releases to Staging and Production environments following defined procedures including code reviews, QA, security scans, and rollback processes
• Deploy new versions of code to staging and production
• Enforce quality and security standards in all relevant aspects of the release process
• Facilitate automation to integrate unit tests, security scans, code reviews, automated tests, deployments and reports through automated pipelines
• Evaluate new technologies, develop proof of concept demonstrations, and present findings to the engineering organization
• Stay relevant with industry trends, technologies, and security standards
• Implement best practice procedures for process improvement including post mortems, process flow optimizations, and cross-functional communication
• Support incident management and resolution for release-related software issues
• Work with cross-functional teams to develop, improve, and enforce release planning and deployment processes
• Manage, monitor and optimize traffic using CloudFlare for enhanced security and performance.

Requirements

• 3-4+ years of DevOps experience
• Strong knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong knowledge of software branching (preferably git), software development lifecycle, QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Strong understanding of GitLab, GitHub, Ansible, JIRA, Confluence, VS Code
• Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation
• Extensive experience with logging and proactive monitoring of infrastructure using tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Librato, and other synthetic monitoring solutions
• Previous experience with a cloud platform including Heroku and GCP
• Experience working with at least one of the following languages: Python, PHP, Bash
• Proficient in leveraging CI/CD tools such as GitLab, CircleCI, ArgoCD, Flux and CloudBuild to automate deployment and continuous integration processes.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
• Heroku / GCP / Docker / Kubernetes / GitLab
• GitOps and DevOps Release Cycles
• Kubernetes - hands-on experience with GKE clusters on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including integration with CI/CD pipelines using industry best practices
• Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage with 100% of premiums covered for medical, dental, and vision plans for employee-only plans
• 401k matching up to 3.5% of contributions
• 6 paid sick and mental health days
• Employee Assistance Program
• Free weekly yoga and meditation classes
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan
• Professional development opportunities with mentorship and continuous learning programs
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Performance-based pay increases
• Reimbursements for a portion of personal cell phone and internet usage
• Fully stocked kitchen and free on-site gym for those coming into the Woodland Hills, CA office
• Virtual and in-person company events