Azure DevOps Engineer

Job Overview

Element 84 is seeking an experienced and motivated DevOps Engineer with a strong background in building and maintaining reliable, scalable cloud systems in AWS and Azure and a proven record of utilizing infrastructure as code in complex deployments to support our innovative projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborating with development teams for the design and implementation of robust, scalable, and secure cloud-native solutions on Azure and AWS.


• Developing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code to manage and provision infrastructure across numerous Azure and AWS accounts, ensuring consistency and efficiency.


• Maintaining and optimizing CI/CD automation pipelines to facilitate rapid and reliable software deployments.


• Collaborating with security experts to translate organizational security requirements into secure and compliant cloud implementations.


• Participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle from user story generation, through design, development, automated testing and operational support


• Improve quality by actively participating in code-reviews and adhering to team quality standards.


• Own execution of small-medium sized features with higher-level technical support


• You describe the details of your work fluidly and accurately to technical peers

Required Qualifications

• 4-6 total years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, including 2+ years working with Azure Tools and Environments.


• Proven experience provisioning, configuring, and managing secure, scalable cloud environments within Microsoft Azure, utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles


• Hands-on experience deploying and maintaining workloads using core Azure tools and services (such as Azure Pipelines, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates or Bicep, Azure Monitor, and Microsoft Entra ID)


• Writing and maintaining infrastructure as Code (Cloudformation, Terraform, CDK)


• Working experience with deploying and managing containerized applications and platforms in Kubernetes, Helm Charts, Docker, etc.


• Ability to clearly document and communicate architectural concepts, cloud architecture patterns, and tradeoffs at multiple levels, including delivering presentations, creating visual designs, and writing white papers


• Experience working with an Agile Development software team


• Experience with infrastructure monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, ELK stack, New Relic, Splunk, etc.)


• Strong experience with data engineering tools and technologies (SQL, NoSQL, DynamoDB, Postgres, Redshift, Athena, Glue, etc.)


• Strong experience with Linux environments


• Working experience with cloud architecture patterns and tradeoffs (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)


• Working understanding of code and script (Python, Go, Javascript, and TypeScript)


• Experience with web server technologies (Nginx, Puma, Unicorn, and/or Tomcat)


• Outstanding all-round communication skills and ability to work collaboratively and proficiently in a remote environment


• An AWS foundational level certification (e.g. Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, AWS Cloud Practitioner or AI Practitioner) or willingness to obtain one

About Element 84

Element 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.

Benefits

Element 84's values are: We Invest in Each Other, We are Reliable, and Our Work Benefits our World. We value life outside of work, offering parental leave for everyone and supporting each other through family challenges. We have had a flexible work schedule since our founding in 2010 and are committed to fostering a culture of curiosity and respect for all individuals.