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Senior DevOps Engineer – NOAA Badge Required
Location
Arizona + 21 moreAll locations: Arizona | California | Colorado | Florida | Illinois | Kansas | Montana | New Hampshire | New Jersey | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Maryland | Michigan | Minnesota | Pennsylvania | South Dakota | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$145K - $175K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior DevOps Engineer – NOAA Badge Required
Element 84
• Leading the design and implementation of robust, scalable, and secure cloud-native solutions on AWS. • Collaborating with security experts to translate organizational security requirements into secure and compliant cloud implementations. • Developing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code to manage and provision infrastructure across numerous Azure and AWS accounts, ensuring consistency and efficiency. • Maintaining and optimizing CI/CD automation pipelines to facilitate rapid and reliable software deployments. • Crafting automation scripts in Python, Bash, JavaScript, and other relevant languages to streamline operational workflows. • Contributing to the development and maintenance of infrastructure supporting Generative AI applications on domain-specific datasets. • Automating the creation and management of front and back-end applications, pipelines, security tooling, etc. • Defining and advocating for best practices and standards for DevOps success across Element 84 and our customer organizations.
Job Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in software development, with 3+ years specifically focused on Cloud Technologies.
- Strong, hands-on experience with IaC is a must, including writing, maintaining, and troubleshooting complex configurations for cloud environments.
- Strong experience developing in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Bash, JavaScript).
- Demonstrable experience designing, deploying, and managing infrastructure and services on a major cloud platform.
- Ability to clearly document and communicate intricate architectural concepts at various levels, including delivering presentations, creating visual representations of architectures, and writing white papers.
- Demonstrated experience in negotiating tradeoffs between critical factors such as security, performance, maintainability, and cost.
- Proven ability to multitask and effectively prioritize work across competing demands and multiple customers.
- Extensive experience working within an Agile Development software team.
- Solid experience with Linux environments.
- Deep understanding of cloud architecture patterns and tradeoffs (e.g., serverless vs. provisioned, managed services vs. self-hosting).
- Expertise with 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.).
- Experience 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 willingness to obtain one.
- Active NOAA CAC badge.
- This position requires that applicants 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
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