Insomniac Design is a global digital agency headquartered in Washington D.C., with offices in London, Bucharest, and Chisinau. We’re an agile, determined, and innovative team organized by functional areas of expertise — Creative, Technology, Strategy, and Management. We specialize in human-centered design with deep focus on design thinking and digital transformation.
The DevOps Engineer is responsible for overseeing the design, development, and operations of our company's DevOps strategy. This position will partner closely with our development, quality assurance, and operations teams to optimize our software development lifecycle and infrastructure.
General Responsibilities:
- Expected to collaborate and contribute effectively within a team environment.
- Able to work towards achieving business goals without a predefined solution, showcasing adaptability and critical thinking skills.
- Able to solve complex problems and understand interrelated processes within the job role scope.
- Demonstrates the ability to create team-level processes and optimize existing processes.
- Actively mentors junior team members, contributes to the hiring and performance management process, providing valuable insights.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, document, and maintain our company's DevOps infrastructure, tools, and processes.
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to identify and prioritize areas for automation, optimization, and improvement.
- Build and maintain continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
- Manage and monitor cloud infrastructure and services, including servers, storage, and network components.
- Implement and maintain security and compliance standards for our systems and applications.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues with infrastructure and applications, and implement measures to prevent recurrence.
- Support DevOps team process.
- Keep up to date with the latest DevOps tools and technologies, and evaluate their potential to improve our processes and infrastructure.
- Configuration, maintenance, and security updates of computing systems.
Skills & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
- 3 or more years of experience in a DevOps role, preferably within a web application development environment.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and services, such as AWS, GCP and Azure.
- Proficient in scripting and programming languages, such as Python, Bash, and JavaScript.
- Exceptional experience with configuration management tools, such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and Helm.
- Exceptional experience with containerization technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools, such as Solarwinds, Datadog, Nagios, etc.
- Experience with agile methodologies and working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- Intermediate English language communication and interpersonal skills.
Insomniac Design is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone is treated with respect and dignity. We believe that embracing differences in race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, and cultural backgrounds allows us to create better solutions for our clients and a stronger team. We strive to ensure that all employees, candidates, and clients feel valued and respected, and we continuously work to improve our practices and policies to foster a more diverse and inclusive environment.
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What We Do
Insomniac Design is an award-winning digital creative agency founded in 1999, based in D.C.’s historic Blagden Alley. We’re an agile, nimble and innovative team organized by functional areas of expertise — Creative, Technology, Strategy, and Management. With offices in the U.S. and Europe, we’re a global team with diverse experience and cultural backgrounds who consistently strive for excellence. We specialize in human-centered design — with projects and work that includes complex web and mobile builds, digital transformation, branding, visual design, content, video and creative services.
We’ve worked in the areas of policy, advocacy, government, foundations, commercial brands, and more — with clients like Brand USA, UNICEF, The World Bank, World Health Organization, Amnesty International, BBC Worldwide, National Endowment for the Arts, Lufthansa Airlines, Adobe, and Google. Insomniac Design’s work has won numerous awards such as W3 Awards, Communicator Awards, and the AIB awards. Beyond the U.S., our work in Asia and Africa has been featured in news and media around the world.
