DevOps Engineer

Are you ready to join Connecticut Innovation’s vibrant community of innovators? Connecticut Innovations ( CI ) is Connecticut’s strategic venture capital arm, and we are passionate about serving our portfolio of 220+ companies across various industries, with strengths in life sciences, technology, and climate tech.

One of our portfolio companies is looking to hire a DevOps / Cloud Engineer!

DevOps / Cloud Engineer

The DevOps Cloud Engineer is responsible for design, building, and operations of cloud services and infrastructure. This role will bridge development and IT operations groups and oversee cloud environment operations.

They will be responsible for technical leadership in forming and building cloud architecture and infrastructure, developing processes, procedures and policies that meet cloud and business standards.

The role will look to employ tools and process to automate and provide oversight of the cloud and on-premises infrastructure and services.

• Own, build, administer and maintain cloud development, production and business infrastructure and services, as well as on-premises business infrastructure
• Create and keep up to date monitoring, alerting and reporting for infrastructure and services
• Use automation tools and scripting to automate process of building and maintain infrastructure and services
• Understand the SDLC and work with development team in aiding in the development and release processes
• Work closely with technical teams to understand business needs, develop technical roadmaps, and implement solutions
• Automate, develop, and perform software deployments for test environments for internally and externally developed software
• Be able to operate effectively, even when things are not clear, or the way forward is not immediately obvious
• Be adept at learning quickly, applying insights from past efforts to new situations
• Thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment and communicate on a technical level to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Performs other duties and projects as assigned

Education and Experience

• 5+ years of related experience including software installation and maintenance experience
• 3+ years working on Cloud Service Provider (Azure preferred) related projects
• Azure AZ 301 and / or AWS Solutions Architect certifications preferred
• Experience with parameterized, Infrastructure-as-Code technologies (e.g. CloudFormation, CDK, Azure ARM, Terraform, Ansible)
• Experience with serverless, container strategies and orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes)
• Experience with automating and architecting continuous integration / continuous deployment environments (e.g. Gitlab, Github Actions, Jenkins)
• Experience with event-driven and microservices architecture design patterns
• Experience troubleshooting across compute, storage, networking, and apply best practices to determine optimal performance & cost
• Experience in networking and sysadmin (Linux) fundamentals, including virtual networking in the cloud, VPNs, and zero-trust architecture
• Experience configuring and using alerting & monitoring tools (e.g., Nagios, VictorOps, CloudWatch, Stackdriver)
• Experience with issue / problem tracking systems (e.g., Jira) in an agile software development environment
• Experience with distributed source code repositories (e.g., Git)
• Experience & understanding with blue / green deployment, A / B Testing
• Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent understanding of Azure & AWS cloud services, architecture, best practices
• Excellent understanding of HTTP & web services cloud patterns and architectures (e.g., HTTP, state management, load balancing, DNS)
• Solid understanding of the data security & privacy (PII / PHI) regulatory environment within the US
• Solid ability to understand business requirements, envision a solution and / or determine the best path to a solution and see it to implementation
• Ability to work with end users and other stake holders to obtain and refine requirements
• Ability to train and support business users on provided solutions as necessary

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Connecticut Innovations and its portfolio companies are an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We have strict wage minimums, generous benefits, and personal leave policies. Our goal is to provide safe, rewarding, and empowering work environments for all who interact with our company and / or portfolio companies.