Devops Engineer

Photon - Dallas, TX

Full-time

Dallas, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The DevOps Engineer role focuses on building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure while ensuring that systems are secure against cybersecurity threats. This position involves collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and conveying these to developers, automating and improving development and release processes, and testing code written by others. The engineer will also identify technical problems, develop software updates, and participate in project management decisions.

Responsibilities

• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
• Testing and examining code written by others and analysing 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 out projects and being involved in project management decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Computer Systems Networking, Information Systems/Science, or a related field
• Demonstrable experience delivering high availability auto scaling containerised deployments in AWS
• Kubernetes & Docker experience
• Scripting (bash, Unix, Python, JSON)
• Cloud Formation Templates (Infrastructure as Code)
• Containerization (e.g., Docker)
• Go Language
• Helm Charts
• Amazon Web Services foundational familiarity
• Elastic Kubernetes Service
• S3
• Elastic Block Storage
• EC2
• NoSQL Database (e.g., DynamoDB)
• ALM Tools (Stash, Jenkins, Artifactory)
• Strong collaboration and relationship management skills