What are the responsibilities and job description for the DevOps Engineer V (McLean, VA or Sunnyvale, CA) position at ID.me?
Role Overview
ID.me is looking for a DevOps Engineer V to add to our rapidly growing engineering team. If you love innovation, here's your chance to make a career of it by advancing the digital identity ecosystem. We are seeking a talented DevOps Engineer who excels in technical leadership and enjoys the challenges of setting up and scaling large infrastructures and improving security vulnerabilities.
*Candidates must be located in Washington DC (McLean, VA) or San Francisco Bay (Sunnyvale, CA) as this role requires an onsite presence.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain scalable and performant production infrastructure, improving and ensuring reliability across our systems.
- Act as the technical leader for DevOps and SDLC initiatives.
- Troubleshoot and debug infrastructure issues.
- Assist in remediating audit and compliance findings.
- Work with our security operations team to improve security posture and manage vulnerabilities across our systems.
- Identify and remediate scaling issues (i.e PostgreSQL connection pooling).
- Assist in maintaining data warehousing and other critical infrastructure.
- Participate in on-call duties for production issues.
Minimum Qualifications
- 7 years of experience working in medium or large scale production systems.
- Experience with CI/CD practices and platform tools (GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkins etc.).
- Strong background with HashiCorp technologies (Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad).
- Experience with public cloud technologies, preferably GCP and AWS.
- Experience with IaC/orchestration tools (Terraform, Ansible).
- Experience in PostgreSQL.
- Experience in scripting (ie Bash, Python, and/or Ruby).
- Experience in Linux/Unix administration and solid networking knowledge.
- Previous or current application development experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Must have an obsession for building quality products.
- Ability to thrive when there are changing priorities and shifting of gears.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Must be a team player with a strong, self-managing work ethic.
- Must be a self-starter with a passion for security engineering, learning and continuous improvement.
Bonus Experience
- Experience with SRE Concepts, Chaos Engineering, DORA metrics.
- Familiarity with STIG guidelines and systems.
- Experience with security compliance and audits.
- Experience with containers and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
- Experience with observability tools (Honeycomb, New Relic, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Grafana, Splunk, LinearB, etc.).
Vision: To be the world's leading digital identity network empowering people to control their own information and to prove their credentials across all channels: online, call center, and in-person.
Mission: To make the world a more trusted place by delivering the highest level of security with the least amount of friction at the lowest possible cost.
People: We have an audacious mission. We aim to fix the identity layer of the internet. Billions of people will live better lives with more trust and convenience thanks to ID.me. We are like Special Forces. We take on the most difficult challenges with amazing teammates.
At ID.me, we believe that an in-office culture fosters professional growth and development, mentorship, collaboration, and accelerated innovation. This position will be in-office based at one of our locations in either McLean, VA or Sunnyvale, CA. Working in an office together allows our culture to thrive and our team members to establish real connections with their coworkers and the opportunity for lifelong friendships. Our work is critical to protecting online identity and we’re confident that working together is how we’ll change the world.
