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Sr. DevOps Engineer

Western Climate Initiative Inc.
Full-time
On-site
Sacramento, California, United States

About WCI, Inc.

At WCI, Inc., you can become part of a collaborative and dynamic team supporting the largest carbon market in the Americas and one of the largest in the world. Emissions trading is an approach to tackle climate change as it incentivizes innovative technology and economic growth while improving quality of life and promoting investments in clean, affordable energy. Through major technology investments, we enable the Participating Jurisdictions to build, use, and maintain a secure, reliable, and flexible emissions trading platform.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team.

You will help transform our software and processes to efficiently and consistently deploy in a reliable and secure fashion. You will leverage industry best practices to deliver a scalable and compliant path to production and will operate as part of a team that maintains existing services and processes.

If you like the idea of running and enhancing a platform that is central to regulating carbon emissions, you’ve found the right place!

What will you do?

  • Build highly scalable, reliable CI/CD processes for our carbon registry and auction platforms.
  • Work closely with the development teams to create automation strategies for deployment, self-testing, and alerting.
  • Design, develop, and maintain software solutions tailored to address specific operational, compliance, and pipeline issues.
  • Drive continuous delivery of software, resolve incidents, and run incident post-mortems.
  • Provide feedback on engineering architecture decisions and automate repetitive operational tasks.
  • Help improve our deployment procedures to make them more efficient.
  • Enhance documentation and processes related to DevOps efforts.
  • Ensure that all aspects of our infrastructure meet and maintain compliance standards.
  • Stay abreast of the latest guidelines and integrate them into our operational practices.
  • Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential

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What skills and knowledge should you bring?

  • 5+ years of experience in SRE/DevOps/Infrastructure Engineering for SaaS products.
  • 3+ years of experience in running software operations.
  • 2+ years of experience in leading design and architecture of cloud infrastructure.
  • Preferred experience inside a heavily regulated environment.
  • Experience with Cloud Infrastructure deployments. AWS is preferred, good knowledge of serverless deployments (Lambda, Fargate) is a plus.
  • Experience in leveraging Bash scripting.
  • Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments.
  • Familiar with IaaC and DevOps tools like Pulumi or Terraform.
  • Familiar with CI / CD using any of GitHub Actions, Gitlab Pipelines, Travis, CircleCI, Spinnaker, or Buildkite.
  • Familiarity with deployment strategies like blue green, rolling deploys, canary deploys and best practices around deployment automation (with tools like shipit or spinnaker) is desired.
  • Demonstrated professional experience working in at least 1 main programming language (JavaScript, Typescript, Python, Go, Ruby, etc.).
  • Familiarity with SecOps and Compliance processes is desired.
  • Proficiency in Docker for building, deploying, and managing containers.
  • Experience with Docker Compose to orchestrate multi-container applications.
  • Keeping a pulse on the latest cloud technology trends and Open Source.

Travel

The Staff DevOps Engineer may need to travel for specific and well-defined business purposes.

About this Position

This is a full-time salary position that may be in Sacramento, California (headquarters) or remote from the United States. WCI, Inc. offers competitive salaries and benefits commensurate with qualifications and professional experience and is committed to equal employment opportunities. For more information, visit our Website and Careers Page.