Senior DevOps Engineer Tech Lead - Aparavi

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Join the Aparavi Software team, where we're leading the charge in data management and AI solutions. We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer Tech Lead to help us take our data solutions to the next level. If you're a tech wizard ready for an exciting challenge, apply now and be part of the data revolution!

Job Summary 

The Senior DevOps Engineer Tech Lead on the DevOps team willdesign, develop and maintain tooling, automation and infrastructure that is robust, scalable and efficient to enable high-quality continuous delivery and ongoing operation of our Platform. This position will provide technical guidance to and collaborate with a cross-disciplinary team focused on continuously improving the efficiency of the Engineering team and the quality and security of our software stack, identify the root cause of problems in our builds, CI pipeline and deployments, and create robust solutions using industry best practices to achieve highly secure and reliable services. This role reports directly to the VP of R&D. 

With offices in Santa Monica, CA, Columbus, OH and Munich, Germany, we aim to bring structure to unstructured data at scale.

​​​Role and Responsibilities​ 

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipeline using tools like GitHub Actions and Jenkins and improve the efficiency of the build/test/deploy process to ensure fast and reliable software releases 
• Support and extend internal dev/test system monitoring, reporting and alerting 
• Harden internal dev/test systems and maintain strong security principles to comply with SOC2/ISO regulations 
• Provide technical documentation on processes and how they interact with the tools used to implement those processes 
• Implement and maintain centralized secrets management solution 
• Write code (ansible, Terraform, docker, etc.) to build automated non-production dev/test environments in many clouds (AWS, Azure, Google, Hetzner, etc.) 
• Perform root cause analysis and resolve technical issues 
• Consistently seek out best practices and help to implement them on the team 
• Provide technical and project guidance to DevOps engineers 
• Consult with Engineering on DevOps matters such as deployment, configuration, security, quality, reliability, scalability, performance 
• Participate in on-call rotation

Qualifications & Education/certification requirements 

• 8+ years' experience as DevOps 
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent 
• Expertise in Python – coding, testing, debugging, maintaining 
• Hands-on experience developing and running Docker and Kubernetes 
• AWS Certified DevOps Professional or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional 
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Practical experience and knowledge of operating systems (Linux, Windows) and networking protocols (http/s, TCP, SMB) 
• Competency with critical concepts in DevOps, SRE and Agile principles

Preferred Skills

• Strong knowledge of infrastructure and automation of CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Git and scripting 
• Developer-level understanding of relational databases 
• Ability to explain technical issues simply and understand other viewpoints 
• Solid technical design and documentation skills 
• Writing clean code, knowledge of best practices and common design patterns 

What You Get?

• Competitive Salary: Range $138,000. to $175,000.
• Trust from your peers, CEO and leadership team
• Be one of the 1st one hundred employees of the team & take control and ownership of projects. 
• Opportunity to drive innovation within an industry that hasn't changed in 30 years.   
• Competitive Total Rewards (salary, bonus, equity incentive plan). 
• 401K program & Paid Time Off. 
• 100% Company Paid Premium Contribution for employees (Medical, Dental, Vision insurance, Long-term/short-term disability) and 75% Company Paid Premium Contribution for eligible dependents.

ABOUT THE COMPANY
Aparavi® is headquartered in Santa Monica, California with team members across the globe.  We are expanding and looking for people who want to build the best product in the business, never stop learning, pay attention to detail, do the right thing no matter who is looking, and have a positive impact on the world by providing TRUE data intelligence and automation technology. Rare opportunity to contribute across the entire Aparavi Platform with this new web application and its modern architecture!

Our platform transforms data chaos into intelligent information availability that fuels innovation and accelerates knowledge. We put you in control of your data with knowledge and break down silos. You can now manage and have insight into the state, placement, and availability of our data to address information continuity, cost, and compliance without compromise.  We provide advanced data intelligence and automation software and services.  We empower organizations to control and exploit their data.  Simplicity, lowering costs and risk while gaining insight are paramount in today's data centric world.  Aparavi's technology enables data–driven companies to easily discover, classify, protect, and optimize their data at the edge, on-premise, and across hybrid and multi-cloud storage. We offer answers to demanding use cases across all industries. Data governance, compliance, data consolidation and scale, analytics, and machine learning are just a few.

At Aparavi, we celebrate the diversity of our team.  Aparavi is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.