Senior DevOps Engineer – NOAA Badge Required

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Arizona, +21 more states.

📋 Description

• Spearheading the design and execution of durable, scalable, and secure cloud-native solutions on AWS.

• Partnering with security professionals to convert organizational security needs into secure and compliant cloud solutions.

• Creating and managing infrastructure-as-code to control and provision infrastructure across multiple Azure and AWS accounts, ensuring uniformity and efficiency.

• Sustaining and enhancing CI/CD automation pipelines to support swift and dependable software deployments.

• Developing automation scripts in Python, Bash, JavaScript, and other pertinent languages to optimize operational processes.

• Assisting in the development and upkeep of infrastructure that supports Generative AI applications on domain-specific datasets.

• Automating the creation and management of front-end and back-end applications, pipelines, security tools, and more.

• Establishing and promoting best practices and standards for DevOps success within Element 84 and our client organizations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of experience in software development, with at least 3 years dedicated to Cloud Technologies.

• Strong, hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is essential, including the ability to write, maintain, and troubleshoot intricate configurations for cloud environments.

• Significant experience in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Bash, JavaScript).

• Proven experience in designing, deploying, and managing infrastructure and services on a leading cloud platform.

• Capability to effectively document and convey complex architectural concepts at various levels, including delivering presentations, creating visual architecture representations, and authoring white papers.

• Demonstrated ability to negotiate trade-offs among critical factors such as security, performance, maintainability, and cost.

• Proven capability to handle multiple tasks and efficiently prioritize work across competing demands and numerous clients.

• Extensive background in Agile Development software teams.

• Solid experience with Linux environments.

• In-depth understanding of cloud architecture patterns and trade-offs (e.g., serverless versus provisioned, managed services versus self-hosting).

• Expertise in build and deployment automation tools.

• Proficiency with infrastructure monitoring tools (e.g., CloudWatch, AWS Config, Kibana, Splunk, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, etc.).

• Experience with data storage and data engineering tools and technologies (e.g., ElasticSearch, SQL, NoSQL, DynamoDB, Redshift, Athena, Glue, etc.).

• Familiarity with networking tools and technologies and troubleshooting issues (CloudFront, Route53, Load Balancers, API Gateway, VPCs, NACLs, etc.).

• Technical cloud certification (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert) or a willingness to obtain one.

• Active NOAA CAC badge.

• This position requires applicants to be a US Person (US citizen or legal permanent resident) and authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits.

• Life Insurance, Short & Long Term disability insurance.

• Voluntary Accident, Critical Illness & Hospital Insurance.

• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) retirement plans with a fixed 3% of salary employer contributions (paid regardless of employee participation).

• Health savings account with a company contribution.

• Flexible spending accounts (medical, dependent care, and transportation).

• Company-paid parental leave after one year of employment.

• Flexible work schedules.

• Paid employee assistance program.

• Paid sick leave.

• 6 paid floating holidays per year.

• 4 weeks + 1 day Paid Vacation per calendar year.

• Cell phone stipend.