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We anticipate hiring multiple people for this position.\nAbout Element 84\nElement 84 is a woman-owned small business that works with public, private, and non-profit sector clients to develop geospatial data processing pipelines & build software that helps answer big questions about our health, our infrastructure, and our changing planet. We solve challenging problems across a wide range of industries, but our super power is cloud-based geospatial data processing, remote sensing, and Earth science systems. Our headquarters is located in Alexandria, VA and we have a satellite office in Philadelphia, PA. Element 84 also supports a large remote workforce from a variety of other states.\nA Few Other Things You Should Know\nElement 84's values are: We Invest in Each Other, We are Reliable, and Our Work Benefits our World.\n\nElement 84 works on meaningful projects that are challenging-from a technical, people, and team perspective. We make an impact on large projects through our leadership and expertise, both formal and informal.\n\nElement 84 values life outside of work. We offer parental leave for everyone and support each other through family challenges like medical problems, adoptions, and new babies.\n\nElement 84 has had a flexible work schedule since our founding in 2010.\n\nElement 84 is committed to fostering a culture of curiosity and respect for all individuals as we constantly strive to create a work environment where everyone feels welcome and supported.\n\nAbout You\nYou are curious about the world, are constantly learning, driven to lead (formally or informally), and have a strong work ethic. You're interested in solving impactful problems in science, medicine, and other projects that have a societal good. You can work independently or with a team, prioritize your projects, and be effective without micromanagement.\nYou'll care about writing. Our team is remote and written communication is essential. In addition to caring about a well-crafted email and a succinct conference abstract, you understand that good writing is good design and engineering.\nAbout the Role\nElement 84 is seeking a highly experienced and motivated Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong background in architecting reliable, scalable cloud systems and a proven record of utilizing infrastructure as code in complex deployments to support our innovative projects.\nIn this role, you'll be instrumental in leading the design, implementation, and operation of cloud-native solutions for complex operational systems, collaborating closely with technical teams and customers.\nThe ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in designing, deploying, and supporting enterprise-grade software within cloud environments, with a strong emphasis on infrastructure as code principles. While direct experience with geospatial applications isn't required, a curiosity and aptitude for working in this domain will be beneficial.\nWhat You'll Be Working On\nLeading the design and implementation of robust, scalable, and secure cloud-native solutions on AWS.\n\nCollaborating with security experts to translate organizational security requirements into secure and compliant cloud implementations.\n\nDeveloping and maintaining infrastructure-as-code to manage and provision infrastructure across numerous Azure and AWS accounts, ensuring consistency and efficiency.\n\nMaintaining and optimizing CI/CD automation pipelines to facilitate rapid and reliable software deployments.\n\nCrafting automation scripts in Python, Bash, JavaScript, and other relevant languages to streamline operational workflows.\n\nContributing to the development and maintenance of infrastructure supporting Generative AI applications on domain-specific datasets.\n\nAutomating the creation and management of front and back-end applications, pipelines, security tooling, etc.\n\nDefining and advocating for best practices and standards for DevOps success across Element 84 and our customer organizations.\n\nRequired Qualifications\n6+ years of experience in software development, with 3+ years specifically focused on Cloud Technologies.\n\nStrong, hands-on experience with IaC is a must, including writing, maintaining, and troubleshooting complex configurations for cloud environments.\n\nStrong experience developing in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Bash, JavaScript).\n\nDemonstrable experience designing, deploying, and managing infrastructure and services on a major cloud platform.\n\nAbility to clearly document and communicate intricate architectural concepts at various levels, including delivering presentations, creating visual representations of architectures, and writing white papers.\n\nDemonstrated experience in negotiating tradeoffs between critical factors such as security, performance, maintainability, and cost.\n\nProven ability to multitask and effectively prioritize work across competing demands and multiple customers.\n\nExtensive experience working within an Agile Development software team.\n\nSolid experience with Linux environments.\n\nDeep understanding of cloud architecture patterns and tradeoffs (e.g., serverless vs. provisioned, managed services vs. self-hosting).\n\nExpertise with build and deployment automation tools.\n\nProficiency with infrastructure monitoring tools (e.g., CloudWatch, AWS Config, Kibana, Splunk, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, etc.)\n\nExperience with data storage and data engineering tools and technologies (e.g., ElasticSearch, SQL, NoSQL, DynamoDB, Redshift, Athena, Glue, etc.).\n\nExperience with networking tools and technologies and troubleshooting issues (CloudFront, Route53, Load Balancers, API Gateway, VPCs, NACLs, etc.).\n\nTechnical cloud certification (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert) or willingness to obtain one.\n\nActive NOAA CAC badge.\n\nThis position requires that applicants be a US Person (US citizen or legal permanent resident) and authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nAWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, and/or Certified Kubernetes Administrator certifications.\n\nB.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (equivalent professional experience will be considered in lieu of a degree).\n\nExperience with Generative AI technologies.\n\nExperience working in regulated contexts (e.g., NIST 800-53, PCI, HIPAA).\n\nExperience with authentication and authorization technologies (e.g., SAML, SSO, AWS Cognito, JWT, OAuth, OPA, Ranger).\n\nDemonstrated ability to proactively learn and integrate new technologies into existing workflows.\n\nFamiliarity with geospatial data processing, analysis, or visualization tools and concepts.\n\nExperience using containerized workloads for local development and enterprise deployments (e.g. docker, EKS, EKS-automode, minikube, podman)\n\nExperience with data warehousing or data lakehouses (e.g. Databricks or Snowflake)\n\nAdditional Information\nPaying attention to who we are as a company-people, family members, friends, and colleagues-is our primary focus at Element 84. There are lots of ways to run a company, and, for us, we prioritize wanting to come to work, being around people we enjoy, taking on big things with people you trust, and sharing our achievements as a team.\nYou’ll get credit when things go right and we’ll have your back when things go wrong.\n\nWe only take on work that is challenging and right for us. There are projects we will turn down and the team has a say.\n\nWe may be a small company, but we have big company benefits meant to support the idea that we're here for the long term and happiness comes from much more than where you work.\n\nWe have an extraordinary retention rate because we hire extraordinary people. We hope that’s you.\n\nCompensation & Benefits\nSalary Range: $145,000 - $180,000 / year (Full-time, Salaried)\n\nBonus Potential: Eligible for performance- and company profit-based bonuses.\n\nTotal Rewards: Base pay is just one part of the Element 84 compensation package. Final offers are tailored based on your technical skillset, relevant experience, domain knowledge, certifications, and location.\n\nComprehensive Benefits: Full coverage details, retirement matching, and perks are listed below.\n\nLocation & Remote Work\nRemote candidates are encouraged, but only in states/localities where E84 is already set up for business. 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