DevOps Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a 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 the build out of a multi-account AWS environment.
• Automate build & deployment processes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, software engineering.
• Experience crafting CI/CD processes and automation.
• Deep knowledge in AWS cloud technology.
• Experience with PLG stack, Datadog, 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.
• TS Clearance required

Additional Qualifications (Nice to haves)

• Experience working in AWS GovCloud.
• Experience in data processing with the Department of Defense and/or the IC.
• Experience building CD/CI systems in Github Actions.
• Passion for DevSecOps.
• Experience working with Elasticsearch/Opensearch.
• Have worked hardening and delivering software applications.
• Experience with modern web services architectures.
• Experience with relational database systems, including SQL and relational design.
• Knowledge of advanced networking concepts such as overlays, VPNs, and zero trust networks.
• Strong collaboration and negotiation skills and must be able to work on multi-functional projects with internal partner engineering teams
• Willingness to travel about 20-30%
• Ability to work Pacific or Mountain Time

What we offer

We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 100% remote first culture. You can work from anywhere in the US and all full time employees have WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
• Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel