Position: Senior DevOps Engineer for a Silicon Valley Startup
Company: X1 Group
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

PROJECT
Dasera is a seed-funded security startup from California focusing on enabling flexible, safe internal use of sensitive data. Recently selected as a Top 3 startup at RSAC Launch Pad 2020.

The product will ensure the maximization of internal data usage while minimizing the risk of an insider breach by finding, flagging, and rewriting unsafe queries executed by employees and contractors in data warehouses and data lakes.

Find out more from the founders directly, watching their product introduction at www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkdTv_5Zjcc

REQUIREMENTS
— Technical experience working in IT with a strong understanding of IT infrastructure fundamentals
— At least one certification on a relevant cloud platform (e.g. Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate/MCSE or AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Google Professional Cloud Architect)
— Solid understanding of Cloud technologies including fundamental characteristics of cloud, cloud-native design fundamentals, best practices (such as Azure Review Framework or AWS Well Architected Framework)
— A strong understanding of security concerns around cloud
— Strong OS knowledge including recent Windows and Linux experience
— Some scripting experience with any modern scripting language (Terraform preferred)
— Familiarity with DevOps practices & culture, CI/CD pipelines

AS A PLUS
— Experience of development pipeline technologies such as Bitbucket or competitors thereof
— Experience of automating infrastructure deployment, using any of CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Salt, Chef or Puppet
— Particular Windows / Microsoft ecosystem experience

BENEFITS
— Build the product from scratch in direct collaboration with the founding and C-level team from California
— As an early team member, your work will have a lot of impact and you’ll help shape the culture of the company
— Work remotely from any location
— Health insurance with premium-level clinics
— Unlimited vacations
— Last but not least — fair compensation for your efforts

RESPONSIBILITIES
— Build out infrastructure for deployments of our software using tools such as Terraform, Docker, AMI
— Take responsibility for all aspects of infrastructure solutions you build: from security by design to creating accompanying high-quality documentation
— Build with the end in mind and get involved in all aspects of development and operations for the platform solutions we build and deliver
— Actively seek out opportunities to automate manual functions and pro-actively improve the reliability and performance of our cloud solutions
— Maintain knowledge of developments in Azure/AWS/GCP services and seek out opportunities to apply new features and functionality to existing design patterns
— Help automate QA process, e.g., write a script to automatically spin up a Redshift cluster, populate it with synthetic data and synthetic queries, spin it down after testing is complete
— Monitor and minimize cloud infrastructure costs