DevOps Engineer II

The DevOps Engineer II will play a significant role in the development, automation, and security across their diverse company portfolio. They presently use a diverse number of systems like Chef, GitLab, GitLab-CI, Terraform, and Kubernetes to automate the testing and delivery of both their 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 II will have a good 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 here:

• Support the software development process by identifying inefficiencies, recommending solutions, automating delivery, and implementing testing.
• Write automated tests for application availability, performance, and deployment consistency.
• 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 their software.

You will love this job if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science and/or relevant experience.
• 2+ years of software engineering or operations support.
• Comfortable with various programming languages (Ruby, Ansible, Bash, Perl, Python, etc.).
• Good proficiency in diagnosing and remediating complex technical issues.
• Effective communication skills for working across support and engineering departments.
• Good understanding of cloud hosting infrastructure such as GCP.
• Good understanding of virtualization environments, especially VMware vSphere.
• Good understanding of source control management (GitHub, GitLab preferred).
• Passion for security and identifying opportunities to improve security and testing.
• Designing and implementing GCP infrastructure using IaC.
• Monitoring the infrastructure and application for improvements and analyzing application and system logs.
• Troubleshooting and debugging GCP-related issues, including performance bottlenecks and system outages.
• Developing and maintaining backup and disaster recovery plans.

The Team
They are a globally distributed workforce across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Armenia, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Culture
At Granicus, they are building a transparent, inclusive, and safe space for everyone who wants to be a part of their journey. A few culture highlights include:

• Employee Resource Groups to encourage diverse voices.
• Coffee with Mark sessions – Employees get to interact with their CEO on very important and sometimes difficult issues ranging from mental health to work-life balance and current affairs.
• Embracing diversity & fostering a culture of ideation, collaboration, and meritocracy.
• They bring in special guests from time to time to discuss issues that impact their employee population.