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. ## 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 - Clearance preferred - Willingness to travel about 20-30% ## 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