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Principal DevOps Engineer
Remote (US)
About Vizit:
Vizit is at the forefront of visual content intelligence, empowering brands to optimize their online presence through data-driven insights. We are a fast-growing e-commerce company based in Boston, and we are looking for top-tier talent to join our team and help scale our innovative solutions.
Position Overview:
We are seeking a seasoned Principal DevOps Engineer with a strong focus on DevOps to lead our infrastructure initiatives and support our Research & Development team. In this role, you will play a critical part in shaping and executing our cloud strategy, while also implementing robust QA practices. If you have a passion for automation, infrastructure as code, and cloud architecture, and are equally comfortable supporting a QA environment, we want to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of highly scalable, secure, and efficient AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth integration and deployment processes.
- Implement and maintain automation frameworks and tools for infrastructure provisioning using Python and AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK).
- Work closely with the R&D department to build test harnesses, and design and implement end-to-end testing strategies.
- Oversee integration testing and deployment processes, ensuring that new code is reliably released into production.
- Continuously improve system performance, availability, and scalability.
- Ensure security best practices are followed, and implement automated monitoring and alerting solutions.
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers on DevOps and QA best practices.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, with a strong track record of leading cloud infrastructure initiatives.
- AWS Certification.
- Expertise in serverless event-driven architecture. Should know how to solve service limits config issues with AWS Lambda and Docker issues.
- Familiarity managing AWS Organizations.
- Principal or Staff DevOps Engineer title currently.
- Amazon EC2 experience managing Lambda, clusters, and VPC.
- Familiarity with managing complex launch configurations.
- Experience managing Linux.
- Proficiency in Python, particularly in automating cloud infrastructure and building deployment pipelines.
- Experience working with software teams to stand up QA automation.
- Experience in a big data environment with ETL.
- Experience supporting R&D teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
What we offer:
- Competitive Salary and Stock Options
- Remote Availability. Most team members are located around Boston, MA so engineers who live outside of Boston generally fly in every 3-6 months to meet up in person!
- High Stability. We are growing and well-capitalized!
- Paid Holidays
- Medical and Dental Insurance, and FSA Healthcare
- 401K
- Annual $250 Wellness Allowance
- Annual $250 Home Office Allowance
- Endless opportunities to learn and take on new responsibilities in a growing startup
**All candidates must live in the United States. Vizit is not sponsoring work visas for this role.
To apply:
Submit your resume along with the name of the role you are interested in to careers@vizit.com.
Whoever you are and however you identify, if this sounds like a role and a team that you'd be excited to join, we would love to hear from you.
