DevOps Engineer I

Position Summary:  

The DevOps Engineer I is a sharp, disciplined, self-starter with the ability to work independently or as part of a project. They handle team ticket triage, as well as tools and access support for Engineering staff. The Engineer monitors the performance of the pipelines and supports the development of applications and services. They handle tasks that are a hybrid of trusted DBA functions, release management and troubleshooting of supported systems. The Engineer is available for afterhours work as required to support availability, releases, and maintenance.   

Essential Responsibilities:

• Enable developers to operate within a consistent and secure SDLC (25%) 

• Develop and maintain Pax8 cloud infrastructure and services using developer focused principles (25%) 

• Support the continuous development, integration and deployment lifecycle of Pax8 services (15%) 

• Support the health and reliability of Pax8 services using monitoring, metrics and alerting (15%) 

• Participate in DevOps meetings and activities, including scrum ceremonies and collaborative troubleshooting (10%) 

• Participate in on-call and support rotation (10%)

Ideal Skills, Experience, and Competencies: 

• At least one (1) to three (3) years of experience supporting application development, preferably microservices and a Java based web platform

• Programming/scripting language skills in Python, AWS CLI and Bash preferred 

• Experience supporting AWS services

• Maintenance of IaC and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible and Git

• Maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins

• Understands networking principles and technologies 

• Basic PSQL Database administration tasks and query support experience

• Experience working in a Lean/Agile environment using tools such as Jira, Wrike, LeanKit, Rally or similar 

• Strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills 

• Strong desire for automation

• Ability to build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions

• Ability to make good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward

• Ability to gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity

• Ability to maneuver comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics

• Ability to anticipate and adopt innovations in business-building digital and technology applications  

 Required Education & Certifications:

• B.A./B.S. in related field or equivalent work experience

Compensation:

• Qualified candidates can expect a compensation range of $87,000 to $110,000 or more depending on experience.

Will you now or in the future require Pax8 to commence (“sponsor”) or transfer an immigration case (such as an H-1B Visa, L-1 Visa, etc.) to employ you, commonly known as “sponsorship”? Please note, Pax8 currently is unable to consider applicants who require the sponsorship of a new employment-based visa or the transfer of an existing employment-based visa for this position. Pax8 remains committed to complying with all legal requirements and thank you for your understanding in this matter.

Expected Closing Date: 3/31/2025

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