Senior DevOps Engineer Motion Recruitment Somerville, MA $190,000 per year

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A political organization in Massachusetts is looking for a fully-remote Senior DevOps Engineer to join their team. They build tech and infrastructure for Democratic campaigns, progressive-aligned causes, and people working to create a better future. We put power in the hands of small-dollar donors and make giving online as easy as possible. And we work with thousands of groups -- from presidential candidates to environmental organizations to local school board members.

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience in a programming language like Ruby, Python, or Golang.
• Experience developing and monitoring mission critical web applications.
• IaC experience with Terraform or Ansible
• AWS experience

Desired Skills & Experience

• Prior Mentor experience - really looking for someone to hit the ground running
• Bonus if you have Scripting experience

What You Will Be Doing

Daily Responsibilities

• Managing, monitoring, extending our mission critical web application infrastructure in AWS and other cloud providers in an elastically scalable, self-healing environment. Handling high volume is our priority.
• Being part of an on-call rotation. When alarms ring we respond immediately and effectively.
• Learning from alerts. After an event, we learn from it, continuously improving our infrastructure, monitoring, or applications to keep the same issue from ringing alarms again.
• Working with application developers and product “customers” to deploy and monitor new services securely at scale in cloud services.
• Building visualizations of our data to understand the performance of our systems and recommend improvements to remove bottlenecks and points of failure.
• Discovering, testing, and deploying upgrades to or replacement of components of our infrastructure, from simple OS packages, to database version upgrades, to cloud services, to wholesale architecture changes.
• Anticipating and proactively addressing security concerns from both process and technology standpoints.

The Offer

• Competitive Salary: Up to $190K/year, DOE

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance & Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401(k)
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefits

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.

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