Job Description
Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Remote
Muck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. Our mission is to enable organizations to build trust, tell their stories and demonstrate the unique value of earned media. Muck Rack’s Public Relations Management (PRM) platform enables organizations to build relationships with the media, manage crisis risk and demonstrate PR’s impact on business outcomes.
Founder controlled, fully distributed, and growing sustainably, Muck Rack has received several awards for its unparalleled culture and product from organizations like Inc., Quartz, G2, and BuiltIn. We value resilience, transparency, ownership, & customer devotion and infuse these values into everything we do.
We’re looking for a collaborative and self-motivated Senior DevOps Engineer to join our quickly growing team and make a big impact.
The DevOps and Platform groups are responsible for enabling the entire engineering department to focus on doing high impact work. This is accomplished by providing tools, processes, and other paved paths for our infrastructure, configuration management, and other application-agnostic needs. You’ll help ensure that our container-based infrastructure is cost-efficient, scales with our varied workloads, and of course, is reliable.
You’ll be a great fit for this role if you’re a cross-disciplined engineer who values collaboration with other teams and also embodies core DevOps philosophies and best practices. You’ll be joining a distributed-first team and be on-call for about 1 week every 10 weeks.
What You’ll do:
- Partner with fellow DevOps engineers and application teams on providing paved paths for infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and helping optimize our containerized workloads
- Become the subject matter expert for our core Kubernetes and related tooling/ecosystem and help evangelize its usage across the organization
- Participate in agile ceremonies (stand ups, iteration planning, retros)
- Mentor peers and other teams on current best practices
- Keep abreast of new technologies and approaches as well as their possible integration into our stack
- Help document our tools and spread knowledge
- Join the weekly production on-call rotation
If the details below describe you, you could be a great fit for this role:
- Embodies DevOps philosophies and have operated as a DevOps engineer
- Expertise with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform
- Hands-on, production experience with Kubernetes
- Hands-on, production with AWS or similar cloud providers and their related services like EKS/ECS/etc
- Strong familiarity with cloud security practices and methodologies (shift left, etc)
- Experience with containerized solutions like Docker
- Experience managing high traffic sites and scaling/managing large data platforms for a fast scaling company
- Strong familiarity with CI/CD and automation tools like CircleCI, Argo, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins
- High level of personal accountability who works efficiently and independently as part of a distributed team
- Methodical approach to investigating bugs and building process that considers edge cases and team processes
- Clear communicator with both technical and less technical stakeholders (verbally and in writing)
- Collaborative, with the ability to give and receive feedback and ask for help or support when necessary
- Analytical systems-thinker who can also rely on intuition and experience to understand systems
- Flexibility and a willingness to help
- The starting salary for this role is between $140,000 and $170,000, depending on skills and experience. We take a geo-neutral approach to compensation within the US, meaning that we pay based on job function and level, not location. For all other countries, we have competitive pay bands based on market standards.