DevOps Engineer
AthennianPosted 3/15/2025
DevOps Engineer
Athennian
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Job Summary
Athennian is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their Cloud Security and Infrastructure team. As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure, collaborating with engineering teams to solve operational problems, and implementing solutions that increase operational productivity. You will work closely with stakeholders to design and maintain a reliable, scalable, and secure platform, optimize existing deployment tooling and infrastructure, and conduct vulnerability scanning and penetration testing. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and/or automation engineering, strong understanding of cloud technologies such as AWS, and knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, & Linux Systems. Athennian offers competitive benefits and perks, including remote work options, flexible working hours, health/dental/vision/group life/gRRSP/LTD/AD&D/EFAP benefits, high growth environment, team-building, day-to-day variety, MacBook for all employees, stock options, and a culture of transparency. If you are a motivated and collaborative individual who thrives in a fast-paced startup environment, apply now to join Athennian's Engineering team.
Job Description
As a key contributor to our Engineering team you will be responsible for:
- Work closely with Engineering stakeholders to design and maintain a reliable, scalable and secure platform
- Optimize existing deployment Tooling and Infrastructure, including but not limited to creating and maintenance new CI/CD Pipelines, optimizing infrastructure for cost or performance to meet our company goals
- Collaborate with the Engineering team to identify areas for improvement and implement solutions
- Provides DevOps domain expertise for existing projects and new initiatives
- Set up and maintain test environments for manual and automated testing
- Conduct and analyze results of vulnerability scanning and penetration testing and action findings
- Plan and perform ongoing routine application maintenance tasks
- Participate in on-call rotations for monitoring and alerting
- Identify cost saving opportunities within our infrastructure
A successful candidate will have:
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and/or automation engineering
- Strong understanding of cloud technologies such as AWS
- Experience with running and managing systems and services on a cloud platform (AWS)
- Strong understanding of database technologies such as MongoDB
- Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes & Linux Systems
- Knowledge of Terraform and Packer
- Experience deploying cloud service, monitoring, alerting, and handling critical issues
- Agile development experience
- Works well in a team environment, as well as independently
- Strong attention to detail and problem-solving
- Exceptional organizational and time management skills with the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time
- The ability to work without close supervision and thrive in an autonomous working environment that allows for high levels of freedom
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Technical curiosity and desire for continuous learning
Nice to have:
- AWS DevOps Engineer certification
- Experience with Cloud based security protocols
