Cloud Software Engineer with AWS or Azure

About Element 84 

Element 84 is here to help accelerate and scale projects that have a positive impact on people and the planet. We solve challenging problems across a wide range of industries, but our super power is cloud-based geospatial data processing, remote sensing, and Earth science systems. We were founded by husband-and-wife engineers in 2010 and have grown into a skilled group of practitioners building high-performance systems for the biggest corporate and government clients in the world. Our main office is located in Alexandria, VA but we support a large remote workforce from Michigan to Texas and Pennsylvania to California.

A Few Other Things You Should Know

1. Element 84's values are: We Invest in Each Other, We are Reliable, and Our Work Benefits our World.
2. Element 84 works on meaningful projects that are challenging—from a technical, people, and team perspective. We make an impact on large projects through our leadership and expertise, both formal and informal.
3. Element 84 pays well but we care more about working on projects that matter.
4. Element 84 values life outside of work. We offer parental leave for everyone and support each other through family challenges like medical problems, adoptions, and new babies.
5. Element 84 has had a flexible work schedule since our founding in 2010.
6. Element 84 has made a commitment to diversity. We expect the entire team to share that same commitment. 

About You

You are curious about the world, are constantly learning, driven to lead (formally or informally), and have a strong work ethic. You're interested in solving impactful problems in science, medicine, and other projects that have a societal good. You can work independently or with a team, prioritize your projects, and be effective without micromanagement.

Element 84 is looking for experienced DevOps engineers with strong Amazon Web Services or Azure experience to support multiple projects, primarily working in the Remote Sensing domain. This engineer will work with teams to deliver continuous deployment, continuous testing, and continuous monitoring processes and technologies for complex operational systems. The ideal candidate would have experience deploying enterprise software within Amazon Web Services or MS Azure. 

You'll care about writing. Our team is remote and written communication is essential. In addition to caring about a well-crafted email and a succinct conference abstract, you understand that good writing is good design and engineering.

Here are examples of things you might be working on:

• Managing automated infrastructure for handling dozens to hundreds of AWS accounts.
• Maintenance of Jenkins CI/CD Server or similar and creation of new pipelines for automation.
• Writing and maintaining scripts for automated creation AWS Infrastructure.
• Writing automation scripts in Python, shell scripts, JavaScript and other languages.
• Designing cloud native architectural approaches.
• Implementing systems for managing collection of metrics and logs from potentially thousands of instances and other cloud infrastructure.
• Automating creation of operating system images and containers.
• Defining standards for DevOps success across Element 84 and customer organizations.
• Working with security experts to understand organizational security requirements and creating secure implementations.
• Managing infrastructure and tools for machine learning activities such as training. 

Please submit your information, resume and cover letter if you are interested in this permanent full-time position in the Washington, DC metro area.  Remote candidates welcome.

Here are the guidelines we're looking at to gauge experience and skillset:

Required Qualifications

• Working experience with serverless technologies in AWS or Azure.
• Technical cloud certification or willingness to be certified
• 5+ years of experience working in software development, 3+ years working with Cloud Technologies
• Working experience of cloud architecture patterns and tradeoffs (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Experience with build and deployment automation (Jenkins, GitLab, and/or AWS Code Deploy)
• Strong experience with Linux environments
• Working understanding of code and script (Python, Bash, and Javascript)
• Experience working with an Agile Development software team
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring tools, such as CloudWatch, AWS Config, Kibana, Splunk, New Relic, etc.
• Experience with data engineering tools and technologies (e.g. ElasticSearch, SQL, NoSQL, DynamoDB, Redshift, Athena, Glue, etc.)
• Experience with web networking tools and technologies and troubleshooting issues (CloudFront, Route53, Load Balancers, API Gateway, Nginx, Firewalls, etc) 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working/building in regulated contexts (e.g. NIST 800-53, PCI, HIPAA)
• Experience with build and deployment automation (Bamboo, TeamCity, and/or Jenkins)
• Ability to clearly document and communicate architectural concepts at multiple levels
• Knowledge of authentication and authorization technologies (SAML, SSO, AWS Cognito, JWT, OAuth, etc.)
• Experience with other/multiple cloud platforms
• Experience with machine learning tools and technologies and their application to operations and monitoring
• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related fields or equivalent experience

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. At this time, Element 84 will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

Benefits

Paying attention to who we are as a company–people, family members, friends, and colleagues–is our primary focus at Element 84. There are lots of ways to run a company and for us, it's wanting to come to work, being around people we enjoy, taking on big things with people you trust, and sharing our achievements as a team.

• You’ll get credit when things go right and we’ll have your back when things go wrong.
• We only take on work that is challenging and right for us. There are projects we will turn down and the team has a say.
• We may be a small company, but we have big company benefits meant to support the idea that we're here for the long term and happiness comes from much more than where you work. 
• We have an extraordinary retention rate because we hire extraordinary people. We hope that’s you.

Element 84 is an equal opportunity employer, with a company culture that values diversity.

We embrace inclusivity and believe that diversity of thought, perspective, and experience helps us reach higher and think bigger. Element 84 is committed to hiring the best person for the team and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.