DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Remote, Anywhere in the Continental US

Due to the nature of the role, this position requires U.S. Citizenship.

Data Surge is disrupting the services industry with cutting-edge technology that brings together the very best consultants from the big data, machine learning, and software modernization space.

At Data Surge, we value collaboration, curiosity, and being customer centric. Our team thrives on collective efforts, innovation, and a commitment to wellness, ensuring employees are empowered to thrive professionally and personally.

About the Role

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be working as a member of our Federal Services team to jointly design, architect, and implement software systems for our federal and government clients. This is an ideal job if you are someone that wants to be part of an intensely skilled team, values total ownership of your work, and can’t imagine a day without coding.

We're looking for a creative, focused, technically curious individual who enjoys both designs as well as working hands-on with the code. If you are a DevOps Engineer, with professional experience with various cloud technologies, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) proponent, we want to speak to you!

Day-to-Day Impact

• Design and define the DevSecOps architecture for new or existing IT systems
• Write clean, working code and has commanding knowledge of traditional operations tasks
• Coordinate system development to include design, modeling, security, integration, and formal testing.
• Manage and document system configurations
• Assist with deployment of new product features
• Configure CI/CD for multiple web applications and microservices
• Take source code, dependencies to perform application builds
• Deploy to multiple environments (Dev, Staging, Production)
• Responsible for Infrastructure as Code and configuration management
• Author Helm charts to deploy resources to Kubernetes (Azure Kubernetes Service)

Essential Experience

• 5\+ years of full-time DevOps experience, preferably at a consulting company
• Proficiency with Linux operating systems.
• Experience with Git.
• Working experience with CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab, Jenkins, Circle CI, or similar)
• Jira or similar to track questions and answers as well as enter orders
• Ability to manage networking for web applications by understanding PCP/IP, DNS, and load balancing.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, with ideal knowledge of AWS, GCP, and/or Azure
• Deep expertise with Infrastructure as Code (one or more of Terraform, Cloud Formation, AWS CDK, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
• Knowledgeable of including containerization, monitoring \& logging, and network \& security.
• Experience deploying and managing databases, interacting with databases via SQL and ORMs.
• Comfortable using Python and Bash/Zsh to create systems tooling
• Ability to provide incident resolution to customers with hardware, software and application problems to include customer telephone support as well as electronically submitted requests)
• Ability to contribute code updates/tweaks to existing code repositories.
• Experience with software system design, able to create application architecture for new applications.
• Experience with integrating security components with applications and databases.

Kudos If You Have:

• Familiarity with Configuration Management
• Experience with delivery of an integrated solution using Agile software delivery techniques.
• Experience in System Engineering and project/program management.
• An interest in mastering the full software development stack, including DevOps, Frontend Development
• Experience championing test driven development (TDD)
• An interest in creating agentic systems

Learn More

Data Surge offers a competitive compensation and total rewards package.

• Comprehensive Benefits
• Remote-first work environment
• PTO – Including holidays \+ your birthday
• 401(k) with 4% Match, immediately vested
• Growth and development opportunities
• Bonuses \+ more

Find out more about our story at www.datasurge.com.

Visit our Careers page to explore our openings at https://www.datasurge.com/careers/.

Follow us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-surge-llc.

As a participator in E-Verify, Data Surge electronically confirms employment eligibility of employees to work in the United States.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Compensation Package:

• Bonus opportunities

Application Question(s):

• Do you currently hold an active clearance?
• Are you willing to obtain a clearance if required for the role?
• As part of our hiring process, we conduct background checks on all potential candidates. Are you willing to undergo a background check if you are selected for further consideration?
• What are your salary expectations for the role?
• Due to the nature of the role with work within our government services team, U.S. Citizenship and current U.S. residency are required to meet federal eligibility requirements. Do you meet these requirements?

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• DevOps: 5 years (Preferred)
• Coding: 5 years (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote