DevOps Specialist

Western Climate Initiative Inc.•Sacramento, CA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

WCI, Inc. is seeking a qualified DevOps Specialist to provide infrastructure management and monitoring expertise, to set up a continuous integration/delivery pipeline as well as to facilitate, monitor and review software development/automation operations. This is a full-time salary position that may be located in Sacramento, California or remote from Sacramento area.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or related field.
Solid knowledge of cloud-based environments, especially AWS (core services such as IAM, VPC, S3, Lambda, ECS/Fargate).
Hands-on experience implementing Continuous Integration & Delivery (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar).
3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, preferably Pulumi ; experience with Terraform is acceptable if accompanied by strong willingness to learn Pulumi.
Demonstrable experience writing infrastructure or automation code in TypeScript (or strong TypeScript skills with a track record of quickly learning new languages).
3+ years of experience on a cloud or SaaS operations team.
3+ years of experience managing and monitoring infrastructure.
Expertise in software process automation.
Excellent understanding of Security as part of DevOps.
Familiarity with scripting languages (Bash, Python, or similar) for automation tasks.

Nice To Haves

DevOps certifications (AWS/Docker/Config Management tools etc.).
Experience working with governmental agencies.

Responsibilities

Work independently and collaboratively to set up continuous build environment to facilitate and accelerate software development as well as deployment.
Champion DevSecOps principles and practices.
Plan, test and implement infrastructure and appropriate environments.
Provide guidance and infrastructure support to software development teams.
Monitor, Review, Streamline and Improve technical operations.
Monitor and Inspect automation, Version Control and Security across the pipeline.
Recognize areas of improvement in the development /deployment lifecycle and recommend action plans.