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About Kirschbaum Development Group
We are a team of experts that provide web application development, staff augmentation, and technical consulting services to businesses ranging from startups to Fortune 50 companies. We are a people-centric company with a deep commitment to the communities we serve. We’re not your typical tech company, and we think you’ll love working here.
What is Important to Us?
We are a team of highly skilled and capable people. Aside from will, dedication, and ambition, our biggest asset is our ability to learn and grow. Customers don’t hire us because we have all the answers. They hire us because we can quickly find effective and innovative solutions. We embrace modern technology as well as tried and true practices and principles from the past. We bring cautiousness and stability to our work. We are honest, hardworking, and passionate. We value people and relationships over processes and tools. We view ourselves as master crafters who respect and honor the importance and significance of what we do.
We believe that happy people make better decisions, write better code, and make great products. Team members will stay with us longer when they feel valued, feel like what they do matters, and feel like they have a say in the process.
We value personal and professional growth and prefer to work with people who have shown they will be invested in and committed to their own growth as individuals and professionals.
Job description
We are seeking a Cloud Operations Team Lead to help build out our growing DevOps engineering team. This is a leadership role with opportunity for further advancement in a fast growing company. We work on a variety of projects ranging from SaaS products and Blockchain technologies, to building out APIs and architecting backend tools. This is a fully remote position. In addition to the details outlined below, a successful candidate will have expert level understanding and experience in DevOps, will be self motivated, have a love for learning and new technology, and be able to lead and mentor others.
The ideal candidate will have a knack for problem solving and critical thinking. We are looking for someone with experience building scalable solutions, managing critical production environments, and interacting effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Although Cloud engineering / DevOps will be the primary area of focus, candidates will ideally have some experience and/or interest in learning one or more of the following technologies: Python, Node.js, Golang, PHP/Laravel, Vue.js, React/React Native.
If you are a quick learner, passionate about your work, and are highly motivated, we urge you to consider applying even if you don’t meet all the requirements listed in this posting.
Responsibilities
• Keep the team laser focused on our objectives and help to resolve any issues that may arise. • Show excellent judgement in architecting and planning applications and features at all stages of the project lifecycle. • Interact effectively with clients to determine project needs and develop solutions. • Attention to detail and the ability to consistently deliver quality work. • Take overall accountability for keeping the project clean and organized. This includes identifying next steps, clarifying unclear tickets, and breaking larger tickets into smaller and more manageable tasks. • Take professional accountability for getting things done. Do whatever it takes to make things happen, or give advance warning if things aren’t going well so we can arrange for help. • Understand successful concepts in UI, UX, design cleanliness, and design balance, and take appropriate action to resolve situations where minimum standards are not being met. • Take overall accountability for the quality of code we write on a project. • Take overall accountability for the stability of a project. • Ensure all team members on the project are clear on their tasks and have sufficient work for the day/week. • Run project meetings when a delivery manager / scrum master is not on meetings. • Review code carefully and provides constructive feedback. • Responsible for keeping a production deployment path clear, and ensure that they are not a bottleneck for deployments.
Preferred Qualifications
• Relevant experience as an information technology professional in roles such as a software developer and/or systems engineer, computer engineer, engineering lead, or technical team lead • Experience operating in a DevOps environment • Experience with infrastructure as code methodologies using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, and Packer • Practice of modern software engineering, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and releasing • Experience with AWS, Azure, and/or Google public cloud in a production environment • Experience with developing secure cloud based applications • Experience designing, orchestrating, and deploying container based solutions using Docker and Kubernetes (Podman, crio/containerd, Docker swarm, and OpenShift experience would also be valuable) • Experience with and understanding of serverless frameworks using AWS Lambda such as AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) or Chalice • Experience with continuous delivery tools and methodologies like GitHub, Jenkins, Travis CI, and agile development • Experience scripting (e.g., bash, Python) would be an added advantage • Experience with monitoring solutions such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and NewRelic • Database concepts with the ability to build out database support in an AWS environment • Operating system administration in Linux/Unix • Network administration (VPC, DNS, load balancing, security groups) • Troubleshooting network and operating system level issues • Ability to work Eastern Standard Time hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
We offer great benefits
• Work from anywhere • Great work life balance • Competitive salary • Company computer • Paid vacation • Budget for books/conferences • Paid holidays • Year-end bonus • Health, dental & vision insurance • Paid open-source time • 401k with company match & profit share • Maternity / paternity leave
