What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior DevOps Engineer - TS/SCI position at Kion?
Headquartered outside of Washington DC, Kion is a fast-growing, Series A-stage startup that develops the leading cloud enablement solution supporting Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Kion is trusted for making customers’ journey to the cloud more efficient, secure, and transparent. If you're passionate about integrating systems to build powerful automations that makes everyone's job easier, you'd be a great addition to our team!
YOUR ROLE:
The Senior DevOps engineer has broad responsibility across all DevOps areas of ownership for one of our largest clients! The Senior DevOps engineer has the ability to manage multiple competing priorities, learn new skills quickly, mentor other DevOps engineers in customer systems and solutions, and support the team by lending expertise in planning and prioritization. The Senior DevOps engineer is expected to be able to fully own epics, from interpreting provided requirements into timelines, scoping stories to handle technical implementation, coordinating efforts across departments, and managing stakeholder expectations regarding deliverables.
YOUR DAY-TO-DAY:
- Work with the team to build robust and modern tools, middlewares, and applications to be consumed by customers.
- Interface with customers to gather requirements, scope out work, and deliver solutions to meet customer needs.
- Develop modern, robust, and efficient platform architectures for the core Kion application and official modules.
- Develop automated processes to optimize operations for Kion and customers.
- Work in both virtualized and cloud environments across technologies such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
- Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Work with Agile frameworks including Scrum.
- Fully own planning, implementation, communication of status, and delivery of epics.
- Work to define a standard of excellence and knowledge sharing by mentoring teammates, documenting critical information to help the team scale, and leading by example.
WHAT WE ARE EXPECTING FROM YOU (I.E., THE QUALIFICATIONS YOU MUST HAVE):
- TS/SCI clearance.
- College degree or 6 years experience as a DevOps engineer.
- 6 years experience in a DevOps role.
- Experience developing and managing deployments in AWS.
- Experience with SDLC.
- Experience with Source Control.
- Experience with programming and scripting languages (Go, Python, Bash required, others as possible).
- 4 years experience building automations via CI/CD solutions such as GitLab, GitHub, or Jenkins.
OUR WISH LIST (I.E., THE QUALIFICATIONS WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO HAVE):
- Experience working with the Go programming language.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) or configuration management (CM) such as Salt, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, ARM templates, etc.
- Experience with containerization technologies and services such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Fargate, etc.
WHAT WE WILL PROVIDE IN RETURN:
- Excellent compensation and amazing benefits, including top-of-the-line healthcare coverage with ZERO deductibles. We pay for 100% of the employee AND dependent’s premium for medical, dental, and vision!
- 3% of direct compensation contribution to your 401(k) (no match required).
- Generous time off that includes holidays, sick, and flexible PTO options to allow staff to spend time with friends and family.
- Regular virtual engagements to better connect with co-workers and talk about life outside of work.
- A small-team collaborative environment that fosters communication and innovation.
At Kion, we are focused on making people's lives in the cloud easier through innovative products built by passionate employees. We are looking to add talented, motivated people to our team to help achieve this mission through the engineering, support, and delivery of our revolutionary Kion cloud enablement solution.
If you want to help organizations spend less time managing and governing their cloud, and more time being enabled by their cloud, you’ve come to the right place. Apply below and we’ll be in touch shortly!