Remote Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join a dynamic team as a Senior DevOps engineer to help developers build, test, release, and deploy software stacks and manage infrastructure for Simbe's cloud-based platform and global fleet of autonomous robots.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or related field recommended but not required
• Deep understanding of the software development cycle and agile software methodologies expected
• Experienced in Linux administrator across a significant number of hosts (physical and/or cloud VMs) ideally with Ubuntu
• Experience packaging and deploying software written in C++ and Python to Linux clients
• Extensive experience with cloud computing platforms (ideally GCP but AWS, Azure, and other cloud platform experience is acceptable)
• Experience managing large numbers of connected IoT devices (e.g. robots, wearables, phones, home automation) is a huge bonus but not required
• Familiar with continuous integration + deployment (CI/CD) systems (e.g. Jenkins, Github Actions, TravisCI)
• Adept with configuration management automation tools (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Salt, Chef, etc)
• Well-versed in source control systems, particularly Git
• Proficient in shell scripting with Bash and/or Python
• Experience configuring and administering SQL and NoSQL databases, particularly PostgresSQL and Redis
• Experience configuring and administering web servers (e.g. Apache/Tomcat, nginix)
• Experience with configuring, managing, maintaining, securing, and hardening IP networks
• Familiarity with VPN servers, network firewalls, and wifi network management recommended
• Experience building and running Docker containers recommended

Responsibilities

• Take over DevOps responsibilities that currently are handled by our software developers including continuous integration + deployment, host configuration management, software packaging + hosting, server administration, third-party SaaS service administration, dealing with changes to upstream packages, authentication key management, and host network configuration
• Own Linux system administration and configuration management across all our cloud VMs and physical robot fleet
• Tighten security of our cloud and robots hosts by managing access controls via IAM and ACL policies, configuring network firewalls, management + rotation of authentication keys, deploying intrusion detection systems, and patching hosts
• Help monitor, optimize, and reduce cloud computing costs as we continue to scale exponentially