Senior DevOps Engineer (NOAA badge required)

About You

About the Role

What You'll Be Working On

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software development, with 3+ years specifically focused on Cloud Technologies.
• Strong, hands-on experience with IaC is a must, including writing, maintaining, and troubleshooting complex configurations for cloud environments.
• Strong experience developing in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Bash, JavaScript).
• Demonstrable experience designing, deploying, and managing infrastructure and services on a major cloud platform.
• Ability to clearly document and communicate intricate architectural concepts at various levels, including delivering presentations, creating visual representations of architectures, and writing white papers.
• Demonstrated experience in negotiating tradeoffs between critical factors such as security, performance, maintainability, and cost.
• Proven ability to multitask and effectively prioritize work across competing demands and multiple customers.
• Extensive experience working within an Agile Development software team.
• Solid experience with Linux environments.
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture patterns and tradeoffs (e.g., serverless vs. provisioned, managed services vs. self-hosting).
• Expertise with build and deployment automation tools.
• Proficiency with infrastructure monitoring tools (e.g., CloudWatch, AWS Config, Kibana, Splunk, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, etc.)
• Experience with data storage and data engineering tools and technologies (e.g., ElasticSearch, SQL, NoSQL, DynamoDB, Redshift, Athena, Glue, etc.).
• Experience with networking tools and technologies and troubleshooting issues (CloudFront, Route53, Load Balancers, API Gateway, VPCs, NACLs, etc.).
• Technical cloud certification (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert) or willingness to obtain one.
• Active NOAA CAC badge.
• This position requires that applicants be a US Person (US citizen or legal permanent resident) and authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, and/or Certified Kubernetes Administrator certifications.
• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (equivalent professional experience will be considered in lieu of a degree).
• Experience with Generative AI technologies.
• Experience working in regulated contexts (e.g., NIST 800-53, PCI, HIPAA).
• Experience with authentication and authorization technologies (e.g., SAML, SSO, AWS Cognito, JWT, OAuth, OPA, Ranger).
• Demonstrated ability to proactively learn and integrate new technologies into existing workflows.
• Familiarity with geospatial data processing, analysis, or visualization tools and concepts.
• Experience using containerized workloads for local development and enterprise deployments (e.g. docker, EKS, EKS-automode, minikube, podman)
• Experience with data warehousing or data lakehouses (e.g. Databricks or Snowflake)

Additional Information

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary Range: $145,000 – $175,000 / year (Full-time, Salaried)
• Bonus Potential: Eligible for performance- and company profit-based bonuses.
• Total Rewards: Base pay is just one part of the Element 84 compensation package. Final offers are tailored based on your technical skillset, relevant experience, domain knowledge, certifications, and location.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Full coverage details, retirement matching, and perks are listed below.

Location & Remote Work

• Remote candidates are encouraged, but only in states/localities where E84 is already set up for business. Applications will only be considered if candidate is located in one of the following states: AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, IL (excluding Chicago), IN, KS, MD, MI, MN, MT, NH, NJ, OH, OK, OR, PA, SD, TX, UT, VA, or VT.

Benefits Offered

• Competitive medical, dental and vision benefits
• Life Insurance, Short & Long Term disability insurance
• Voluntary Accident, Critical Illness & Hospital Insurance
• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) retirement plans with a fixed 3% of salary employer contributions (paid regardless of employee participation)
• Health savings account with a company contribution
• Flexible spending accounts (medical, dependent care and transportation)
• Company-paid parental leave after one year of employment
• Flexible work schedules
• Paid employee assistance program
• Paid sick leave
• 6 paid floating holidays per year
• 4 weeks + 1 day Paid Vacation per calendar year
• Cell phone stipend
• Element 84 is an equal opportunity employer.