We’re looking for a passionate and experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to join our growing team and help us scale our infrastructure, streamline our processes, and shape the future of our technology.
In this role, you’ll be at the forefront of planning, designing, and operating platforms that are essential to our company’s success. You’ll work with a talented engineering team to build a resilient, high-performance infrastructure, and you’ll lead initiatives that improve the speed, reliability, and quality of our deployment pipelines. As a DevOps Lead, you will also play a crucial mentorship role, helping junior team members grow, building a collaborative DevOps culture, and ensuring best practices are shared and followed across the team.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to and lead the architecture and infrastructure strategies, focusing on availability, scalability, security, and performance.
- Improve, implement, and maintain our CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments.
- Build and enforce SDLC best practices across development and operations.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues impacting our SDLC, ensuring efficient workflows.
- Develop and maintain AWS infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices.
- Build scripts and monitoring tools to optimize and reduce AWS costs.
- Work closely with engineering teams to promote best practices and maximize the effective use of our tool portfolio.
- Foster a DevOps culture across Resonate by reducing time to deliver code to production.
- Mentor and guide junior DevOps team members, sharing knowledge and best practices.
- Participate in on-call rotations, responding to infrastructure issues as needed.
Qualifications & Experience Requirements
- 6-8 years of professional experience in DevOps or a related software/system engineering role.
- 1+ years of management experience and/or experience mentoring junior team members.
- 2+ years of Python coding/scripting experience.
- 1-2 years of experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with AWS; DevOps or Solutions Architect Professional certification is a plus.
- Experience with Linux system administration and management.
- Strong background in administering and managing monitoring tools such as Splunk, TIG (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana), Nagios, or AWS X-Ray.
- Proficiency with container management using Docker and AWS ECS/Fargate.
- Experience with build tools such as Maven, Gradle, and SBT.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub/GitLab, TeamCity/Jenkins, AWS CodeDeploy/CodePipeline, GitHub Actions).
- Familiarity with streaming data services like Kafka.
- Proficiency in configuration management tools (Ansible preferred).
- Experience collaborating with software engineering teams in an Agile environment.
- Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure issues.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing Java Spring Boot microservices.
- Familiarity with AWS data engineering and MLOps tools such as EMR and SageMaker.
- Experience with Step Functions and AWS Lambda development.
- Background in ETL process development.
- Experience coordinating with security vendors for regular security scans and penetration testing.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
The Ideal Candidate Is:
- A problem solver with a passion for tackling technical challenges.
- Enthusiastic about new technologies and continuously seeks opportunities for learning.
- Committed to quality and strives for excellence.
- Proactive and willing to take initiative to become a subject matter expert in various DevOps technologies.
- Flexible and able to manage multiple projects, meeting deadlines and handling priorities effectively.
- Supportive and eager to mentor junior team members, sharing knowledge and encouraging their growth.
Benefits
Besides the opportunity to work with smart, fun, hard-working Resonate employees, you will have uncapped growth potential, a work/life balance, and a competitive suite of benefits.
Location
At Resonate, we're proud to offer a flexible work environment that combines the best of both worlds. Our team is made up of talented individuals who collaborate seamlessly across physical locations, thanks to our innovative hybrid and remote work policies. Whether you're working from home or from one of our state-of-the-art offices, you'll have access to the tools and resources you need to succeed.
Resonate is headquartered in Reston, VA with offices in New York City, and Washington, D.C. Be a part of the team that changes the industry!
Our EEO Statement:
Resonate is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outline by federal, state, or local laws.
Find out more about our story at www.resonate.com.
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What We Do
Since Resonate’s founding in 2008, the company has been driven by a simple but powerful idea: understanding people. Resonate empowers leading brands and agencies with deep consumer intelligence that ignites unbreakable relationships through better connections, more meaningful engagement and compelling customer experiences.
We are “people-centric.” It is at the heart of what we do and drives how we operate. We reveal the Human Element—a holistic understanding of a person that starts with what makes us the most human—our values and motivations. In other words, we help you understand the “what” that drives the “why” people decide to choose, buy, endorse or abandon a brand or cause. By combining this human, person-based "why" with relevant data about your industry, brand or product, we help you create powerful marketing engagement that drives results.
Named a “Cool Vendor” in Data Driven Marketing by Gartner, a DM News Marketing & Tech Finalist, Most innovative analytics platform and also one of the best places to work in Virginia by the Washington Post and Virginia Business and Best Companies Group, Resonate is privately held and backed by ZMC. Resonate is headquartered in Reston, VA.
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