Senior DevOps Engineer, Contract (Remote)

Calling all Senior DevOps Engineers

We're looking for experienced Dev/Sec/Ops/SRE folk to join our team, helping our clients navigate and implement the Cloud-Native Vision™!

Passionate about K8s, Terraform, and all things Linux? Do you love applying cloud-native technologies to gracefully solve new problems? Enjoy creating systems that simplify application developers' lives? Do you enjoy wrangling AWS, GCP and Azure? (Azure... really??)

Then read on!

The Day to Day

As a consulting company, there's almost never such a thing as a normal day.

When on an engineering engagement, you could be wrangling Terraform configurations, tweaking Kubernetes clusters, crafting CI/CD pipelines, managing Cloud Foundry with BOSH, writing custom controllers in Go, or APIs in Python. Each client and each project is different, and that's what makes the job so enjoyable.

In-between engagements, and during our 20% time, we work on open source tooling, write about our experiences in our journal, or research the latest technologies for our workshops.

Requirements

The Right Role for You

We're actively searching for these roles. Feel free to mention the one that you think fits you best, or just tell us about yourself and we'll take it from there.

Kubernetes Expert who:

• Has managed Kubernetes “in anger”
• Is in love with and terrified by Istio
• Has deployed EKS, Kops, GKE, AKS and knows the strengths and weaknesses of each
• Has spliced into the control plane via webhooks, CRDs and custom controllers

Cloud Foundry & BOSH Operator who:

• Has drunk the BOSH kool-aid
• Believes in the developer experience of Cloud Foundry
• Is absolutely in love with Concourse
• Has Terraformed their twitter account

Container Hardening Pro who:

• Has experience scanning containers and implementing fixes
• Is experienced in general OS hardening techniques
• Understands how containers are constructed at an OS and kernel-level
• Automates everything via pipelines

Azure/AKS Terraform Expert who:

• Actually understands active directory (amirite??)
• Can Terraform AKS in their sleep
• Has "worked with" Azure support about their performance issues
• Still thinks it's a great cloud provider
  

In addition to the specifics above, we'd like to talk with people who:

• Are passionate about DevOps and Agile practices
• Are deeply experienced in the UNIX/Linux world
• Have worked in a pair programming environment
• Have mentored others in a professional setting
• Are excited about learning new technologies
• …but have a healthy skepticism for the "latest shiny"
  

We haven't mentioned education, and that's no accident. While we respect the perseverance and dedication it takes to get your higher degree, we also recognize that many smart and hard-working people opt to go straight into the industry. We don't judge anyone for either path.

Some of our work is with the US government, so we require US citizenship for some of our roles. Though we're 100% remote, time zones suck. We're only hiring people based in, or near, the US.

Benefits

Why You'll Love Working With Us

We strive to offer a structure that matches our values.

A Truly 100% Remote-First Company:

• Not "some remote employees," not "many remote offices," but a truly 100% remote-first culture
• It's not always easy, but being fully remote gives our people a healthier work/life balance, allows us to create a more diverse team, and helps us attract the best people we can find

A Deep Belief in Sustainable Pace:

• We dedicate a day a week to internal projects, we never work more than 40 hours a week, and we give our people unlimited vacation (and 2 weeks of holidays)
• People can't perform when they're overworked. Your brain needs time off to allow it to flourish when it's back on. DevOps is a marathon, not a sprint.

Benefits that You Can Count On:

• To do good work, we have to feel we and our loved ones are safe. We provide that foundation for you.
• We provide medical, dental & vision insurance, and retirement plans to all of our full time employees.

Our Values

While these values stem from moral roots, we also just believe they're the right way to run a business. Working in an environment of professionalism, respect, and emotional safety allows us to produce our best work and builds a culture that enriches everyone's lives.

Do What Works.

Our clients look to us to help them understand the myriad and constantly changing landscape of cloud-native tools. It's important to us that they succeed. This means focusing on the actual problems they face and leading them toward the simplest solutions possible. This is what we mean by "Do What Works."

Do The Right Thing.

We continually try to take the path that does right by our people and our clients, no matter how hard that can be. We believe that how you treat others inevitably comes back to you, so we try to keep our karma well-groomed.

Be Kind.

We're a business, not a brogrammer startup. We don't accept death marches, political backstabbing, or a "take-it-for-the-team" mentality. Instead, we believe in an environment of professionalism and respect.

As a bonus to those of us who read to the end: be sure to use the answer "poppycock" in the related question on your application.