Devops Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Trajector is seeking a highly talented DevOps Engineer to help design and manage the infrastructure for the next generation of our products and services. We are looking for an individual that will bring rigorous software engineering principles and practices to building performant, secure, well-tested DevOps infrastructure, Observability and Security

We have the foundational pieces of our continuously delivered infrastructure defined via IaC with Terraform on various AWS services, including Kubernetes and Lambda. Next, we have prioritized our work to add components to give us the observability we needed to detect and fix issues before end users are impacted. We work with protected health and payment information, so we hope to leverage this observability approach to reduce our audit and compliance effort.

Ideal Fit

• An extensive background in designing, building, modifying and maintaining DevOps infrastructure for an ecosystem of web applications, service layers, and data lake/warehouse/mart/analytics components.
• A strategic, long-term view on product goals and how DevOps infrastructure can
• support them to release frequently with confidence.
• A collaborative disposition fueled by working together to achieve a common goal.
• A relentless focus on proactively identifying workflows that slow down the dev team
• and proposing solutions/automations that allow them to move faster.

About Trajector Platform Engineering:

Mission

As the Platform Engineering division of Trajector LLC, it is our mission to bring technology innovation to the underserved and at-risk disabled population. We use technology to enable clients to more easily navigate the complex journey towards disability benefits, improving their life trajectory.

Developer Experience"

We understand that having the right environment is critical to doing your best work. At

Trajector Platform Engineering we seek to continuously improve the developer experience by removing obstacles and providing excellent tools, hardware, documentation, and overall atmosphere. We make most decisions through discussion, feedback with teammates in similar roles, and a customer-centric approach to support.

Responsibilities

• Work in collaboration with the Director of Engineering Enablement & DevOps and a talented, geographically diverse team to design solutions that meet both functional and non-functional DevOps requirements.
• Maintain a secure, auditable HIPAA-compliant ecosystem.
• Shorten the software development cycle by providing orchestration/automation strategies, tools, and support.
• Manage and provision resources using an Infrastructure-as-Code methodology.
• Implement and support CI/CD to pre-production and production environments.
• Develop and support easy-to-use, local development tools and environments.
• Enable continuous experimentation, testing, and releasing.

Required Skills & Experience

• Authorized to work in the United States and not require work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future.
• Bachelors and/or masters degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
• 2+ years managing web application infrastructure on AWS or similar cloud provider.
• An expert-level understanding of the AWS ecosystem as it pertains to web applications (e.g., Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, Lambda, ElastiCache, ELB, ECR, CloudFront, CloudWatch, Route53 etc.).
• Experience designing and deploying high performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging practices.
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
• Comfortable asking for help and a willingness to help others.
• A pragmatic view on technology. You may be opinionated, but you're not ideological and can view technical decisions as having necessary tradeoffs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. In disagreements, you engage thoughtfully with other perspectives and are willing to compromise.
• Experience with Docker, Compose, Helm, Kubernetes, and serverless technologies.
• Experience writing infrastructure-related code using Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Experience managing DevOps for React distributions and supporting a MERN stack.
• A strong understanding of core networking concepts and communication protocols.
• A strong understanding of logging, monitoring, and alerting strategies and best practices.
• A strong understanding of software engineering principles, the SDLC, and working within an agile environment.
• Familiarity with git as a version control system, branching and merging strategies, and collaborating with others on tasks such as pull requests and code reviews.