As a Senior DevOps Site Reliability Engineer, you:

• Have an automation first mindset

• Are passionate about performance, stability, and security

• Believe in a proactive approach of prevention over mitigation, and mitigation over fixing

• Are comfortable with change

• Have had a positive experience working for a startup before

• Are a U.S. Citizen with an active clearance or willing and able to undergo the clearance process, including polygraph

Required Skills - advanced knowledge of:

• AWS — 3+ years of hands-on experience (Architect / DevOps / SysOps AWS Certification preferred)

• Infrastructure as a Code (Terraform)

• Ansible automation

• Kubernetes — 2+ years of in-depth experience deploying production applications / containers orchestration

• K8S scheduling, networking, security, load-balancing

• CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins or Bamboo)

• Python, Perl, or Golang

• Best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available mission critical service

Desired Experience:

• Implementing observability and monitoring in AWS, using Splunk / ELK / similar

• EKS, ECS , ECR

• Working in an agile environment, focused on rapid cycles and CD

• Supporting, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed mission-critical systems

• Building software and/or platforms where security, regulatory compliance and high availability are critical

• Strong understanding of Information Security in various environments

Responsibilities

• Implement and support FedRAMP and other applicable USG standards, policies, and regulations

• Set up, integrate, and maintain a scalable, stable set of CI/CD tools to support development, testing, and security scanning

• Be accountable for a large-scale SaaS app w/a mission-critical customer base

• Manage multiple tools, infrastructure, and roles in a fast-paced environment

• Own the availability of our SaaS infrastructure and application

• Implement best-in-class AWS solution using infrastructure as code

• Collaborate with engineering and product to continuously improve service availability and quality

• Be involved in the entire production lifecycle: code deployments, infrastructure management, and troubleshooting

• Share ownership w/the Dev team, and own service availability and proactive issue prevention, using structured troubleshooting to mitigate issues

• Work closely with our Dev and DevOps teams to ensure that our production services are secure, scalable, performant, and resilient