Jr. Dev Ops Engineer

About the position

The Junior DevOps Engineer's primary responsibility is to troubleshoot, maintain, and improve upon our AWS infrastructure. The DevOps engineer engages with the software engineering teams, technical delivery teams, and vendors to ensure the successful design, development, and delivery of secure, scalable, infrastructure solutions.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve the build pipelines hosted in GitHub Actions.
• Purchase and configure domains through Cloudflare to support marketing and other technical initiatives.
• Configure new microservices for use in AWS using our IaC tooling.
• Troubleshoot and fix misbehaving cloud services.
• Participate in a Kanban like Agile environment.
• Assist with user access requests by updating IAM policies and roles.
• Debug and improve local development workflows.
• Support Data-Engineering efforts by upgrading, configuring, and maintaining the Airflow clusters for ETL processes.
• Support Data-Science efforts by deploying and configuring scaling for our machine learning models running on Fargate and Sagemaker.
• Improve and maintain existing cloud infrastructure through updates and improvements to scaling configurations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field or equivalent work experience.
• 1-2 years of related work experience in software development, DevOps, or site reliability engineering.
• 1-2 years of related experience working with AWS.
• Proficiency in at least 1 modern scripting language (Python, Bash, Node.js, Go, etc).
• Experience in at least 1 Infrastructure-as-code language (Terraform, Pulumi, CDK, etc).
• Familiarity with git or VCS system.
• Familiarity with a build management system, such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Gitlab CI, etc.
• Familiarity with core AWS services such as IAM roles & policies, security groups, s3, etc.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to assume and complete assignments independently.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• Comfortable using terminal based linux distributions such as Ubuntu server and Amazon Linux.
• Experience working with container-based architectures using Docker.

Benefits

• Immediate 5% match on the 401(k) plan.
• Wellness credits that significantly reduce the employee cost for health care coverage.
• Up to 160 hours of PTO per year for full time employees.