Bear Group is a leading website development firm dedicated to building and supporting websites and eCommerce solutions that help businesses grow. We're a remote-first company headquartered in Seattle and have helped hundreds of organizations—across a wide range of industries—align their technology to their business goals over the past 14 years.
Our focus in web development enables us to develop deep expertise in Drupal, Magento, and Shopify and to provide top-notch custom solutions for clients. We're looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our team. The DevOps Engineer needs to be self-motivated and able to work independently most of the time, but we have a friendly and capable team to collaborate with along the way. We value and support ongoing education and professional development to keep up with ever-evolving technologies and practices.
The type of work depends on the client, but often includes:
In addition to competitive pay, we provide a range of benefits and resources to our employees, including:
Our focus in web development enables us to develop deep expertise in Drupal, Magento, and Shopify and to provide top-notch custom solutions for clients. We're looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our team. The DevOps Engineer needs to be self-motivated and able to work independently most of the time, but we have a friendly and capable team to collaborate with along the way. We value and support ongoing education and professional development to keep up with ever-evolving technologies and practices.
The type of work depends on the client, but often includes:
- Execute safe and efficient deployment procedures across Bear Group clients
- Review and merge code prior to deployments
- Execute all code deployments to production tiers
- Handle escalation support and help troubleshoot and resolve issues that may arise in client's server environments
- Work directly with all members of the project management team on environment-related issues
- Engage with client IT department and technical support for hosting companies
- Support developers with new hire onboarding, local environment setup, and keeping developers unblocked from environment-related issues in their day-to-day coding tasks
- Bachelor's degree plus 3+ years in a DevOps focused role
- Preference for client service environments such as web development firms, technical support teams, interactive agencies, or graphic design firms
- Independence, enthusiasm, superb written communication, and organization skills
- Experience administrating Linux based servers, including Apache and Nginx, ideally with mod-php or php-fpm
- Understanding of web application frameworks, ideally PHP based
- Experience handling complex merges and conflict resolution in git
- Working knowledge of Docker
- Understanding of networking concepts, including DNS, routing, and caching
- Understanding of database concepts and administration
- Familiarity with web hosting platforms such as AWS, Linode, Rackspace, Acquia, Pantheon, Platform.sh
In addition to competitive pay, we provide a range of benefits and resources to our employees, including:
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance
- 3 weeks of PTO plus approximately 10 vacation days annually
- 401k with matching
- New computer
- $1,500 annual education stipend
- Software and home equipment stipend for the tools that you prefer to use