Software Development Engineer, DevOps (US Federal)

About the position

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Responsibilities

• Be a key member of team of dedicated DevOps/SREs responsible for software engineering and operations, with an emphasis on reducing operational toil.
• Automation and improvements are planned by following scrum practices with two week sprints.
• The scrum team is autonomous - on-call function is follow-the-sun.
• Responsible for the safe change and reliability of customer environments, with SLO gated multi-stage deployment automation.
• Develop and launch effective SLIs to ensure that SLOs are achieved through building an extendable Observability architecture, runbook automation, and establishing new processes.
• Partner with platform service teams to craft and implement a range of SRE standards for their respective services to meet.

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent degree.
• 4+ years of DevOps or SRE experience in a distributed systems environment.
• 4+ years experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• 4+ years experience with Kubernetes.
• Proficiency with a programming language such as GoLang, Python, or Ruby (preferably GoLang).

Nice-to-haves

• 4+ years in handling and solving distributed systems in a public cloud.
• Passionate automator, with a track record of referenceable examples.
• Experienced with software development standard methodologies such as code management, CI/CD (GIT/Jenkins/ArgoCD), testing.
• Can work independently and with the demeanor that everything can be automated.
• Skills and enthusiasm to operate, maintain, support and sustain the platform.
• Excited by working in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience collaborating with multi-functional global and remote teams with a diverse set of backgrounds.
• Excellent documentation skills, experience with developing detailed runbooks, processes.
• Preferred: CKA/CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Administrator/Application Developer) certification and Associate Cloud Engineer certification.

Benefits

• Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus.
• Annual refresh stock grants.
• Flexible work schedule.