Senior DevOps Engineer I

The Senior DevOps Engineer I contributes to the architecture, development, automation, testing, and maintenance of our software infrastructure. They work together with technical leadership and all Engineering teams to solve exciting challenges as we grow. The Senior Engineer uses tools and frameworks such as docker containers, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, GitHub Actions, Terraform and other cloud native technologies to move from a centralized monolith to a distributed microservice ecosystem. They advance our CI/CD capabilities so that we can deliver value to the business at an ever-increasing rate while focusing on high availability of Pax8 developed and managed services.

Essential Responsibilities (includes, but is not limited to):

• Develop the technical approach for Microservice Architecture and provide oversight across multiple projects, working directly with the Development and QA teams (35%)
• Develop and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) of Pax8 and third-party Microservices in AWS using Helm, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitHub Actions (30%)
• Provide mentorship to Engineering teams to improve technical excellence (15%)
• Assure high availability of Pax8 developed and managed services by troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issue in the Production environment and providing ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platforms (10%)
• Perform quality assurance reviews in areas of expertise (10%)

Ideal Skills, Experience, and Competencies:

• At least six (6) to nine (9) years of experience supporting the architecture, development, automation, testing, and maintenance of software infrastructure
• Programming/scripting languages: Bash, Python, AWS CLI, Java and JavaScript
• Solid Site Reliability Engineering experience
• Highly proficient in the architecture of and integration of AWS services such as EKS, ElastiCache, AWS Elasticsearch Service, RDS and MSK
• Highly proficient in troubleshooting production Kubernetes microservices
• Highly proficient with Prometheus and Grafana
• Subject-Matter Expert in the design of Terraform modules and best practices of writing Terraform across multiple repositories and deployed to multiple AWS accounts.
• Subject-Matter expert in CI/CD design and standardization across microservices
• Subject-Matter expert with networking principles and technologies such as ACL’s, Subnetting, DNS, load balancers, reverse proxies, containerized networking methodologies, etc.
• Database and replications skills including PSQL and NoSQL preferred
• Expert in Agile methodologies using tools such as Jira, Wrike, LeanKit, Rally or similar
• Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills

Required Education & Certifications:

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

Work Environment:

Professional office environment.  Routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, copy machines, printers, and filing cabinets. Remote and/or hybrid work at Pax8 requires all employees to have adequate secure and private internet service.

Physical Demands:

Sedentary role; primarily involves sitting/standing

Travel Requirements:

Infrequent travel is expected of this position

Compensation:

• Qualified candidates can expect a salary or conversion salary beginning at $140,000 or more. Starting salary is based on various factors and is commensurate with qualifications, experience, competencies, internal equity, and cost of labor.  Base salary is just one component of the Total Rewards package we provide our employees.
• Qualified contract candidates can expect an hourly rate of $87.50/hr or more depending on experience. Contract to hire candidates will be eligible for the benefits package below if and when they convert to regular employees.