DevOps Engineer

Parallel Systems • Los Angeles, CA

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About The Position

Parallel Systems is pioneering autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles designed to transform freight transportation by shifting portions of the $900 billion U.S. trucking industry onto rail. Our innovative technology offers cleaner, safer, and more efficient logistics solutions. Join our dynamic team and help shape a smarter, greener future for global freight. We're looking for a driven DevOps Engineer to join our infrastructure team. You'll help build, maintain, and improve the infrastructure that keeps our systems running reliably at scale. Working alongside senior engineers, you'll gain hands-on experience with modern cloud-native tooling - from provisioning infrastructure with Terraform to deploying applications via ArgoCD on Kubernetes.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering role.
• Minimum 1 year experience with Terraform, Ansible, Chef or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration Management (CM) tools
• Hands-on Kubernetes administration experience: networking (CNI, ingress), storage (PVCs, StorageClasses), workload management (Deployments, StatefulSets, Jobs, CronJobs), and troubleshooting
• Comfort with Linux CLI, shell scripting, and Git workflows
• Minimum 1 year experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and pipeline tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.)
• Experience writing Helm charts from scratch or building on upstream charts
• Strong understanding of core internet technologies like DNS, TCP/IP and the OSI model, HTTP, and TLS.
• Familiarity with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry)
• Experience with scripting in at least one language (Shell, Python, etc.)
• Strong understanding of security concepts (least privilege, CIA triad, defense in depth)
• Hands-on experience with ArgoCD or another GitOps tool (Flux, etc.)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and good documentation habits

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with secrets management, especially with HashiCorp Vault or External Secrets Operator
• Understanding of authentication and authorization schemes (SAML, OIDC)
• Relevant certifications: CKA, Terraform Associate, AWS SAA, etc.

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain Terraform modules to provision and manage cloud infrastructure (mostly AWS) in a consistent, repeatable way
• Package and manage application deployments using Helm charts, including templating, versioning, and chart repository management
• Automate configuration management and application provisioning tasks using Ansible playbooks and roles
• Support the operation of Kubernetes clusters — deploying workloads, debugging pod failures, managing namespaces, RBAC, and resource quotas
• Contribute to GitOps workflows using ArgoCD, maintaining application sync policies and managing rollouts and rollbacks
• Collaborate with development teams to improve CI/CD pipelines and reduce deployment friction
• Maintain and expand our secrets management systems and workflows built on HashiCorp Vault
• Improve and support our cybersecurity posture by applying cybersecurity standards and best practices
• Optimize our network infrastructure to handle additional workloads and applications

Benefits

• We are committed to providing fair and transparent compensation in accordance with applicable laws.
• Parallel Systems is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any discriminatory factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
• We work to build an inclusive environment in which all people can come to do their best work.
• Parallel Systems is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.
• As part of this commitment, Parallel Systems will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations.
• If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your recruiter.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees