Yurts is hiring a
Sr. DevOps Engineer

Summary

Yurts is seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer for their Federal team to deploy and maintain their product in US government environments using Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, and other technologies. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with containerization, automation scripts, security requirements, high availability, monitoring, collaboration, and new technologies.

Requirements

• An active US Department of Defense or Intelligence SECRET clearance, with a willingness to obtain a TS/SCI if needed
• A BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields
• CompTIA Security+ Certification
• 4+ years of experience as a DevOps or DevSecOps Engineer, or equivalent software-engineering role
• Extensive experience leading application deployments to AWS, Azure, and/or Oracle Cloud environments, as well as on-premises data centers
• Experience delivering software to multiple environments using Ansible or similar automation and configuration management technologies
• Strong experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, especially Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc, and a willingness to learn and adopt new ones
• Experience deploying rapidly evolving software and maintaining a flexible deployment paradigm to enable rapid iteration
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with clients, partner vendors, end users, and cross-functional teams
• Experience writing and leveraging infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar)
• Working knowledge of databases, both SQL and NoSQL, and related data structures
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (i.e Bash, Python)
• Experience building deployment systems for rapidly developing and changing applications

Responsibilities

• Deploy the Yurts product in US government compute environments using Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes/Docker, and related technologies
• Architect, implement, and maintain an installer for deploying our software across multiple customer environments
• Develop automation scripts for provisioning, monitoring, backing up, patching and deploying the Yurts product and underlying services
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery capabilities for deployed applications
• Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to ensure optimal performance and uptime
• Collaborate with product DevOps Engineers to establish best practices and company-wide guidelines
• Work closely with product software engineering teams to integrate their project deliverables into customer production cloud and on-premises environments
• Troubleshoot complex system issues and work with customer, partner, and internal development teams to identify root causes and resolve them
• Stay current with new technologies and recommend innovative solutions that increase value and improve efficiency
• Enforce compliance with security best practices and policies
• Participate in the creation of the company's strategic IT roadmap