Staff DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Lilt, a leading AI solution for enterprise translations, as a world-class DevOps Engineer. You will build highly reliable software systems, applying your software talents to infrastructure and operations needs, including bare-metal Linux deployments and commercial deployments in GCP and AWS. This role requires ensuring high uptime and fast, multi-regional server and DB performance for the lilt.com production system. You will collaborate with the engineering team to support new and ongoing products and contribute to infrastructure and engineering roadmap planning. The position is based out of our Washington D.C. hub, starting fully remote and transitioning to hybrid. A TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph is required.

Requirements

• The candidate is required to have and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph and to satisfy other security-related requirements
• Minimum 3 years experience as Linux System Administrator, DevOps Engineer or similar position
• Strong knowledge of at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Bash)
• High proficiency with at least one configuration management/infrastructure as code (IaC) tool, preferably Terraform
• Experience with GCP services such as Compute Engine, shared VPC, and data analytics or equivalents from other vendors
• Solid understanding of Docker and hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes or Swarm
• Expertise in monitoring/alerting and maintaining high production availability
• Experience with CI/CD tools and concepts, such as Jenkins

Responsibilities

• Support technical operations in our development and production systems
• Deliver infrastructure engineering projects to support company initiatives
• Collaborate with our research and development teams to deliver software fast and reliably
• Secure our platform infrastructure and harden our on-premise builds
• Ensure high uptime and fast, multi-regional server and DB performance for the lilt.com production system
• Work with engineering teams to set, measure, and reach SLIs and SLOs for SLAs
• Contribute to infrastructure and engineering roadmap planning, set and attain quarterly OKRs
• Execute on the roadmap in sprints, and adhere to SCRUM best practices
• Introduce and implement new technologies and best practices in InfoSec, DevOps and Site Reliability
• Support our self-managed customers on-site

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in DevSecOps best practices, MLOps, GCP Landzone and/or DB administration

Benefits

• Competitive salary, meaningful equity, 401(k) matching, and flexible time off plus company holidays
• Employees receive coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance, and more. In addition, Lilt pays for basic life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability
• Paid parental leave is provided after 6 months
• Monthly lifestyle benefit stipend via the Fringe platform to allow employees to customize benefits to their lifestyle