DevOps Engineer at CivicActions

Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: United States

CivicActions is a dedicated, fun-loving team, looking for some talented folks to help us bring revolutionary digital services to government agencies and the people they serve.

We are looking to fill a few DevOps positions on different projects:

• Most of our positions are remote (work from home)
• We are also hiring for a specific project that is located in Sacramento, CA and would require an in-person presence

Responsibilities & Qualifications

For these positions, we need people with experience in a combination of the following:

• Understand business goals and communicate technical options, as well as anticipate and surface challenges and opportunities
• Continuous integration & continuous deployment
• Infrastructure-as-code based configuration management
• Amazon Web Services, Docker and/or Kubernetes environments
• Agile development with cross-functional teams (users, developers, product managers, security and compliance)
• Creating and maintaining documentation
• Understanding of systems and network architecture
• Breaking down complex problems into understandable and iterative solutions
• Site reliability engineering and on-call rotation
• Managing a host of diverse free software technologies on cloud hosting environments including Apache, Nginx, Gitlab, Jenkins, Docker, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Solr, RedHat/CentOS, Django, Rails, Drupal, Moodle, Composer and many others

Technologies Used

• We typically use the following stack for our projects:
• Free/Libre and open source software
• GNU/Linux
• Ansible
• AWS CloudFormation or Terraform
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Jenkins or Gitlab

Salary Range

$90,000 – $125,000 Annually

Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Benefits

We excel in our benefits offering and believe that people who are well taken care of can be more balanced, healthy and happy. We offer 100% company-paid medical insurance, disability insurance, and life insurance. We have a generous 401(k) program. We have an open vacation policy — employees are encouraged to take time off as needed to feel balanced, productive and healthy. We have paid parental leave. We have an annual all-hands retreat to connect with each other in person. We also emphasize professional development and offer an annual stipend.

Community participation is important to us and we ask that you spend 5% of your working time giving back to a community that you care about. We attempt to keep our work products ‘open by default’. This means that it is our intention that your work contributions during your time at CivicActions will be published under public license, enabling you to bring your passion fully into your activities without the fear that your expressions will be locked away or prevented from having a positive impact in the world.

About CivicActions

CivicActions is a digital services firm building elegant and accessible government services for everyone.

We are passionate civic designers and developers specializing in free and open source agile software development, user-centered design, security/compliance and open data.

We lead the efforts behind Agile Government Leadership (AGL) and Project DKAN. AGL brings together public sector IT leaders to help understand and implement Agile project management practices within government. Project DKAN is the global open source project that manages development and direction for the DKAN open data platform.

In 2017, CivicActions was named to Government Technology’s esteemed GovTech 100 list.

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We find strength and inspiration in the things that make each of us unique. In striving for a more diverse team, we strongly encourage women, people of color, and physically-challenged people to apply.