Senior DevOps Engineer

Posted Jan 24

The Role

About the role

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to own build and deployment automation for Vannevar Labs. Your decisions today will have a large impact on the company’s future. We believe that simple systems are easier to understand, maintain, and scale. You will be making trade-offs as you work to ensure that our systems are prepared to operate in both commercial and high-side environments at scale — being able to effectively communicate these trade-offs with your teammates is a must.

What you'll do

  • Develop, maintain, and be responsible for overall platform health, scaling and planning.
  • Developing self-service tools and automating things to improve data engineering efficiency.
  • Build logging and monitoring tools to visualize the state of the platform and improve our SRE practices
  • Play a critical part in implementing a secure, robust and high availability DevOps pipeline.
  • Work with the team to continue build out of a multi-account AWS environment
  • Automate build & deployment processes.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in DevOps, software engineering.
  • Experience crafting CI/CD processes and automation.
  • Deep knowledge in AWS cloud technology.
  • Experience with Datadog, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, or other enterprise monitoring tools.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure as code technologies such as Terraform and Pulumi.
  • Proficient with containerization technologies like Docker.
  • Excellent with Python, Bash, or other scripting languages.
  • Experience working in an agile scrum environment and also an ability to work independently.
  • Able to quickly learn new and existing technologies.
  • Strong attention to detail and excellent analytical capabilities.
  • U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S. only data systems and export-controlled data.

Additional Qualifications (Nice to haves)

  • Experience working with Elasticsearch/Opensearch.
  • Experience building CD/CI systems in Github Actions.
  • Passion for DevSecOps.
  • Experience in data processing with the Department of Defense and/or the IC.
  • Have worked hardening and delivering software applications to
  • Experience with modern web services architectures.
  • Experience with relational database systems, including SQL and relational design.
  • Experience with vector database systems.
  • Knowledge of advanced networking concepts such as overlays, VPNs, and zero trust networks.
  • Experience working in AWS GovCloud.
  • Strong collaboration and negotiation skills and must be able to work in multi-functional projects with internal partner engineering teams.

Benefits:

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 100% remote - work from anywhere in the US
  • 401k matching
  • Mental benefits
  • Flexible work environment - you manage your workday
  • Pet and child care reimbursement during travel
  • Unlimited PTO Compensation
  • The salary range for this position is $175,000-$215,000 + equity + 401K match. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.