About the Role
Title: DevOps Engineer 1
Location: United States (Remote)
Type: Full Time
Workplace: remote
Category: Platform Engineering & Devops
Job Description:
The Company
Serving the People Who Serve the People
Granicus is driven by the excitement of building, implementing, and maintaining technology that is transforming the Govtech industry by bringing governments and its constituents together. We are on a mission to support our customers with meeting the needs of their communities and implementing our technology in ways that are equitable and inclusive. Granicus has consistently appeared on the GovTech 100 list over the past 5 years and has been recognized as the best companies to work on BuiltIn.
Over the last 25 years, we have served 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies and more than 300 million citizen subscribers power an unmatched Subscriber Network that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place. With comprehensive cloud-based solutions for communications, government website design, meeting and agenda management software, records management, and digital services, Granicus empowers stronger relationships between government and residents across the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. By simplifying interactions with residents, while disseminating critical information, Granicus brings governments closer to the people they serve-driving meaningful change for communities around the globe.
Want to know more? See more of what we do here.
The DevOps Engineer I will play a significant role in the development, automation, and security across our diverse company portfolio. We presently use a diverse number of systems like Chef, GitLab, GitLab-CI, Terraform, and Kubernetes to automate the testing and delivery of both our Windows and Linux based hosted applications; with plans to consolidate on a standard set of tools leveraging GitLab-CI and Kubernetes where possible. The DevOps Engineer I will have a basic understanding of full-stack application development, testing, continuous integration, a passion for security, and experience working in an agile software development environment.
What your impact will look like:
- Support the software development process by identifying inefficiencies, recommending solutions, automating delivery, and implementing testing
- Assists with troubleshooting issues related to deployments
- Escalation support for the SRE team
- Provisioning and maintenance of systems, load balancer configs, firewall rules, databases and other automation driven infrastructure tasks
- Automate CI/CD pipelines to build and deploy our software
You’ll love this job if you have:
- 1+ years Software Engineering or Operations support
- Effective communication skills for working across support and engineering departments
- Basic understanding of programming scripting languages
- Basic understanding with cloud hosting such as AWS or Microsoft Azure
- Basic understanding of virtualized environments
- Basic knowledge of source control management GitHub, GitLab preferred
- Passion for security and identifying opportunities to improve security and testing