About the Role
Zignal Labs’ real-time intelligence technology helps the world’s largest organizations protect their people, places, and position. Analyzing billions of data points in real time, Zignal's AI-powered platform accelerates mission-critical decision making by empowering leaders with contextual situational awareness of the information environment.
Fully remote, with Silicon Valley roots and team members in over 20 states, Zignal serves customers around the world. Learn more at zignallabs.com.
In this remote role, you will be a part of a DevOps team specializing in tools and automation. The mission of our DevOps team is to break down barriers between Development and Operations to further Zignal Labs' business goals in the most efficient manner possible. Our DevOps team focuses on building a culture & practice that leads to improved product quality, frequent automated delivery and automated infrastructure changes.
As a DevOps Engineer, you will capture Zignal Labs’ entire stack as code and provide tooling that facilitate releases, maintenance and monitoring. To succeed in this position, you’ll need to be familiar with our tech stack while remaining tech agnostic in your search for the best solutions to our engineering challenges.
This position is remotely based and is required to support East Coast hours.
Responsibilities
Cloud infrastructure: Management and optimization of cloud computing resources using Infrastructure as Code and best practices
Integration engineering: Support the software development life cycle (SDLC) to continuously integrate, test, and build code regularly and efficiently, progressing code from local environments to production with ability to roll back.
Release engineering: Contribute to unified tooling and methodology for CI/CD and increasing production delivery
Scaling and performance tuning: Benchmark, scale and tune application and data services based on testing with identified tools or code written in-house (Note: tuning involves systems kernel parameters, data service options, etc. Not software changes)
Software Configuration Management: Architecting and maintaining environment specific configuration management for applications
Cloud security: Contribute to security operations for application development and cloud resources, including assessing impact to current systems
Create and leverage dashboards populated with time series data to capture the state of our applications
Work cross functionally to support your internal customers
Requirements
7+ years of production experience in either a high uptime or high throughput cloud environment
Strong team player collaborating with your team members & cross functional team to address the business needs
2+ years of AWS experience across a range of services including EC2, Auto Scaling, Lambda, RDS
Strong problem solver with critical thinking skills
Self-starter who collaborates well and has a strong sense of urgency to resolve production issues
Strong communication skills to work and share knowledge with other team members
DevOps and automation mindset
Operational experience with Apache products
Experience deploying and managing big data pipeline systems (Elasticsearch, Spark, Kafka, NiFi)
Familiarity working with multiple programming languages and runtimes for application containerization and deployment (Java, Scala, NodeJS, Python)
Systems administration experience with Linux running on AWS services
Experience administering CI/CD and build tools like CircleCI or AWS CodeBuild, as well as working with artifact storage platforms
Experience in writing scripts in Python and Bash to support automation efforts
Experience with container orchestration platforms (Elastic Container Service, Kubernetes) is highly desirable
Expertise in infrastructure capacity planning, AWS cost management using tools like Cloudhealth
Comfortable with being on-call and able to resolve issues in a timely manner
Familiarity with monitoring toolsets like DataDog or Dynatrace
The salary range is applicable to the general US and may be adjusted based on geographic location. Compensation decisions depend on the circumstances of each case, including skill sets, experience, certifications, and business and organizational needs. The estimated salary range for this role is $155,000-$175,000 annually.
Why join Zignal Labs?
- Competitive salary based on the work you do
- Flexible time off – work with your manager to take the time you need
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Paid parental leave plan
- Professional development and growth programs
- A tight knit, collaborative, and transparent environment to help you succeed