Senior DevOps Engineer
About The Position
The Senior DevOps Engineer at Protolabs plays a critical role in supporting and advancing the company’s internal and external business applications. This position involves close partnership with IT, development teams, and other technology stakeholders. The primary responsibility is to ensure the reliable provisioning, configuration, operation, and maintenance of DevOps platforms, including version control systems, build tools, and continuous integration pipelines, to enable scalable, secure, and high-performing technology solutions. Protolabs is a leader in digital manufacturing, hiring individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit who are doers, makers, and creative thinkers. The company culture emphasizes meaningful work that brings innovative products to market rapidly. Protolabs is committed to diversity and inclusion, encouraging all qualified candidates to apply regardless of meeting every single qualification.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree OR minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience
- 5+ years experience managing servers in an enterprise environment
- 5+ years experience supporting code releases into highly available applications
- 2+ years experience supporting server configuration management tooling
- 2+ years experience supporting highly available applications
- Must have the ability to take manual processes and automate them
Nice To Haves
- Cloud Management AWS & Azure
- Configuration Management Ansible & Terraform
- Continuous Deployment Azure DevOps & Github
- Load balancing HAProxy
- JSON/REST
- Code Versioning Git
- Micro Services Kubernetes & Service Discovery
- Linux OS hardening and security
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the provisioning, installation, configuration, operation, and maintenance of version control systems, build pipelines, and continuous integration tooling
- Partner with development teams to support applications, enhance reliability, and promote site reliability engineering practices
- Identify and implement opportunities to increase deployment stability while reducing manual intervention
- Design and maintain high-availability solutions, including load balancer configuration and optimization
- Participate in 24/7 operational coverage, including periodic after-hours work and on-call responsibilities
- Support the growth of the team by mentoring and training colleagues, promoting best practices and knowledge sharing
Benefits
- Competitive salary and annual bonus opportunity
- Health Insurance: Traditional OR High Deductible plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Account (including employer contributions)
- Dental and Vision
- Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Paid caregiver leave
- At least 3 weeks of PTO
- Holiday Pay
- Wellness Hours
- Volunteer Hours
- 401k with company match and immediate vest
- Employee Stock Purchase Program at a 15% discounted rate
- Matching grants through Protolabs foundation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
