Sr. DevOps Engineer

O.C. Tanner is the global leader in software and services that improve workplace culture through meaningful employee experiences. Our Culture Cloud is a suite of apps designed to enhance the employee experience with strategic recognition, service awards, wellbeing, leadership, and events that help people thrive at work.

Our Culture by Design approach provides expert services to organizations looking to create great workplaces.

Our global team of 1,500 people hail from 58 countries and speak 62 languages. As programmers, researchers, designers, client professionals and craftspeople we create the tech, tools and awards that connect employees to purpose at thousands of companies. Join us as we help people all over the world thrive at work.

Location: Salt Lake City, UT, (Hybrid)

Job Summary

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be a key driver in enhancing our CI/CD pipelines and ensuring the robustness of our AWS cloud infrastructure. Leveraging your expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and Observability, you will build and maintain scalable systems and provide operational support to cross-functional teams through infrastructure automation.

This is an exciting time to join our team as we are modernizing our pipelines and infrastructure with cutting-edge technologies. This position requires participation in an on-call rotation and occasional support outside of business hours.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and improve cloud infrastructure using AWS and infrastructure-as-code via Terraform.
• Build and maintain containerized environments with Kubernetes, ensuring scalability, resilience, and performance.
• Implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to ensure rapid, reliable, and secure software deployment.
• Develop and maintain scripts, tools, and automation in Golang, Python, or Java for infrastructure management and monitoring.
• Experience with tools like Docker, Argo, Helm, etc.
• Improve system observability by integrating and optimizing logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve infrastructure and application issues, collaborating with development teams to ensure smooth and efficient delivery processes.
• Maintain and enhance security, availability, and performance of systems in production.
• Work closely with development, architecture, operations, and security teams to ensure best practices are followed in deployment, monitoring, and system architecture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or related infrastructure engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and strong knowledge of GitHub Actions.
• Proficiency in scripting languages and knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS).
• Strong communication, collaboration, and analytical skills. Ability to work in a team and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Previous experience in a DevOps or related role is preferred.
• Solid understanding of observability tools and techniques (e.g., logging, metrics, monitoring, alerting).
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills, with experience resolving complex infrastructure and application issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work in cross-functional teams.

Bonus Skills

• Any AWS or DevOps related certifications
• Proficiency with Data Technologies (Postgres, Elasticsearch)
• Proficiency with Message Brokers (ActiveMQ, Kafka)
• Experience with GitOps, Flux, or Argo

Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analysis Skills, Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Kafka, Automation, Best Practices, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Computer Programming, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Cross-Functional, Debugging Skills, DevOps, Docker, Elasticsearch, GitHub, Go Programming Language (Golang), Identify Issues, Java, Leadership, Leading Edge Technology, Machine Tool, Message Broker, Metrics, Multilingual, Multitasking, On Call, Operational Support, Operations Security (OPSEC), PostgreSQL, Problem Solving Skills, Production Systems, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Scalable System Development, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Software Design, System Architecture, Systems Maintenance, Team Player

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