Senior DevOps Engineer

Company Description

About Element 84 

Element 84 is a woman-owned small business that works with public, private, and non-profit sector clients to develop geospatial data processing pipelines & build software that helps answer big questions about our health, our infrastructure, and our changing planet. We solve challenging problems across a wide range of industries, but our superpower is cloud-based geospatial data processing, remote sensing, and Earth science systems. Our headquarters is located in Alexandria, VA and we have a satellite office in Philadelphia, PA. Element 84 also supports a large remote workforce from a variety of other states.

A Few Other Things You Should Know

1. Element 84's values are: We Invest in Each Other, We are Reliable, and Our Work Benefits our World.

2. Element 84 works on meaningful projects that are challenging—from a technical, people, and team perspective. We make an impact on large projects through our leadership and expertise, both formal and informal.

3. Element 84 values life outside of work. We offer parental leave for everyone and support each other through family challenges like medical problems, adoptions, and new babies.

4. Element 84 has had a flexible work schedule since our founding in 2010.

5. Element 84 is committed to building an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace. We expect the entire team to share that same commitment. 

About You

You are curious about the world, are constantly learning, driven to lead (formally or informally), and have a strong work ethic. You're interested in solving impactful problems in science, medicine, and other projects that have a societal good. You can work independently or with a team, prioritize your projects, and be effective without micromanagement.

You'll care about writing. Our team is remote and written communication is essential. In addition to caring about a well-crafted email and a succinct conference abstract, you understand that good writing is good design and engineering.

Job Description

Element 84 is looking for experienced DevOps engineers with strong AWS experience to support projects across multiple application domains. This engineer will work with technical teams and customers to lead and support designing, implementing, and operating cloud-native solutions for complex operational systems. The ideal candidate would have experience designing, deploying, and supporting enterprise software within AWS. 

Here are examples of things you might be working on:

• Working with technical project teams to design and implement cloud-native solutions.
• Working with security experts to understand organizational security requirements and creating secure implementations.
• Writing and maintaining code to manage infrastructure within dozens to hundreds of AWS accounts.
• Maintaining CI/CD automation including Jenkins pipelines, GitHub Actions, Gitlab Pipelines, or similar tooling.
• Writing automation scripts in Python, bash/zsh, JavaScript, and other languages.
• Writing and maintaining code to support Generative AI applications on domain-specific datasets.
• Plan, assist, and perform migration of on-prem systems into AWS. 
• Automating the creation of operating system images and containers.
• Defining standards for DevOps success across Element 84 and customer organizations.

Please submit your information, resume, and cover letter if you are interested in this permanent full-time position.  Remote candidates are considered if located in VA, DC, MD, PA, UT, NJ, TX, MN, FL, NH, OR, NM, OH, IN, MA, AZ, CO, KS, MI, MT, SD, RI, CA, IL (excluding Chicago).

This position requires that applicants be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or at any time in the future and be able to pass a general background check.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience working in software development, 3+ years working with Cloud Technologies
• Ability to clearly document and communicate architectural concepts at multiple levels including delivering presentations, creating visual designs, and writing white papers.
• Experience negotiating tradeoffs between security, performance, maintenance, and cost.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize work between competing priorities across multiple customers.
• Experience working with an Agile Development software team
• Writing and maintaining infrastructure as Code (Cloudformation, Terraform, CDK)
• Strong experience with Linux environments
• Strong experience developing in Python or another high-level language (Bash,  Javascript)
• Experience with cloud architecture patterns and tradeoffs (Serverless, Docker, Kuber