DevOps Engineer I

Pax8 is the leading cloud-based technology marketplace, simplifying the cloud journey for our partners by integrating technology, business intelligence and proactive service to deliver an unparalleled experience. Serving thousands of partners through the indirect sales channel, our mission is to build the technology marketplace of the future. We are a fast-growing, dynamic and  high-energy startup organization, allowing you to make a meaningful impact on the business. Culture is important to us, and at Pax8, it’s business, and it IS personal. We are passionate, creative and humorously offbeat. We work hard, keep it fun, and expect the best. 

 

We Elev8 each other. We Advoc8 for our partners. We Innov8 continuously. We Celebr8 life.

Position Summary:  

The DevOps Engineer I is a sharp, disciplined, self-starter with the ability to work independently or as part of a project. They handle team ticket triage, as well as tools and access support for Engineering staff. The Engineer monitors the performance of the pipelines and supports the development of applications and services. They handle tasks that are a hybrid of trusted DBA functions, release management and troubleshooting of supported systems. The Engineer is available for afterhours work as required to support availability, releases, and maintenance.   

Essential Responsibilities:

• Enable developers to operate within a consistent and secure SDLC (25%) 
• Develop and maintain Pax8 cloud infrastructure and services using developer focused principles (25%) 
• Support the continuous development, integration and deployment lifecycle of Pax8 services (15%) 
• Support the health and reliability of Pax8 services using monitoring, metrics and alerting (15%) 
• Participate in DevOps meetings and activities, including scrum ceremonies and collaborative troubleshooting (10%) 
• Participate in on-call and support rotation (10%)

Ideal Skills, Experience, and Competencies: 

• At least one (1) to three (3) years of experience supporting application development, preferably microservices and a Java based web platform
• Programming/scripting language skills in Python, AWS CLI and Bash preferred 
• Experience supporting AWS services
• Maintenance of IaC and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible and Git
• Maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins
• Understands networking principles and technologies 
• Basic PSQL Database administration tasks and query support experience
• Experience working in a Lean/Agile environment using tools such as Jira, Wrike, LeanKit, Rally or similar 
• Strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills 
• Strong desire for automation
• Ability to build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions
• Ability to make good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward
• Ability to gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity
• Ability to maneuver comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics
• Ability to anticipate and adopt innovations in business-building digital and technology applications  

 Required Education & Certifications:

• B.A./B.S. in related field or equivalent work experience

Compensation:

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