Staff DevOps Engineer (Security Clearance Required)

About the position

Lilt is seeking a world-class devops engineer to build highly reliable software systems at Lilt. Your job will be to apply your software talents to our infrastructure and operations needs, including bare-metal Linux deployments and commercial deployments in GCP and AWS. Our system requires low latency worldwide, so you'll continuously improve our multi-region configuration, and help us expand into new regions. You will collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to support new and on-going products.

Responsibilities

• Support technical operations in our development and production systems
• Deliver infrastructure engineering projects to support company initiatives
• Collaborate with our research and development teams to deliver software fast and reliably
• Secure our platform infrastructure and harden our on-premise builds
• Ensure high uptime and fast, multi-regional server and DB performance for the lilt.com production system
• Work with engineering teams to set, measure, and reach SLIs and SLOs for SLAs
• Contribute to infrastructure and engineering roadmap planning, set and attain quarterly OKRs
• Execute on the roadmap in sprints, and adhere to SCRUM best practices
• Introduce and implement new technologies and best practices in InfoSec, DevOps and Site Reliability
• Support our self-managed customers on-site

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years experience as Linux System Administrator, DevOps Engineer or similar position.
• Strong knowledge of at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Bash).
• High proficiency with at least one configuration management/infrastructure as code (IaC) tool, preferably Terraform.
• Experience with GCP services such as Compute Engine, shared VPC, and data analytics or equivalents from other vendors.
• Solid understanding of Docker and hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes or Swarm.
• Expertise in monitoring/alerting and maintaining high production availability.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and concepts, such as Jenkins.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in DevSecOps best practices
• MLOps experience
• GCP Landzone experience
• DB administration experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible time off plus company holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
• Basic life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage
• Paid parental leave after 6 months
• Monthly lifestyle benefit stipend via the Fringe platform