Job Description
The role involves managing and deploying container-based applications, ensuring high availability and performance, and collaborating across teams to support a satellite data monitoring service for defense intelligence customers. It requires expertise in DevOps, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the container-based application lifecycle, including bi-weekly releases and CI/CD pipelines for GMS.
- Manage deployments on customer-isolated Kubernetes clusters with stateful applications and persistent storage.
- Ensure high availability and performance through proactive monitoring, alert response, and participation in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
- Debug and resolve complex issues surfaced by customers or internal monitoring.
- Own authentication for GMS resources and provide full-stack technical support to customer-facing teams.
- Manage terraform deployments for data pipelines.
Requirements
- Six years of software engineering experience with a focus on infrastructure or DevOps, specifically deploying and managing containers.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a similar field.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and stateful applications, persistent storage, and node pool isolation in Kubernetes.
- Track record of owning and optimizing CI/CD pipelines and managing infrastructure via Makefiles and manifests.
- Practical knowledge of secrets management and security best practices within a cloud-native environment.
- Experience participating in on-call rotations and participating in blameless postmortems.
- Ability to monitor complex distributed systems with established SLAs and SLOs and a commitment to meeting strict performance SLOs and contractual obligations.
- A high degree of independence and a sense of ownership over the full deployment lifecycle.
- Experience deploying in secured customer environments.
- Willingness to collaborate across multiple time zones and travel quarterly for team alignment.
- Experience managing data pipelines, particularly with dbt.
Benefits & Perks
Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off
16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Home Office Reimbursement
Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
Equity
Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
Discretionary short-term and long-term incentives bonus and equity
Salary Range (e.g., $142,800 - $178,500 USD for US National, $153,000 - $191,300 USD for New York City, $162,600 - $203,200 USD for San Francisco)
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