Gusto

DevOps Engineer (local)

Gusto$100K — $130K *
Boise, ID 83709In-Person
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
  • Proficient in AWS architecture, including ECS, EC2, RDS, and VPC networking.
  • Experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code in production.
  • Skilled in CI/CD using GitHub Actions or similar tools for containerized services.
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring stacks, specifically Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Proficient in Python for automation and Linux administration in production environments.
  • Strong understanding of AWS security practices, IAM, and secrets management.

Responsibilities

  • Build and manage CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions for container images.
  • Own infrastructure as code using Terraform modules and manage costs.
  • Operate hybrid compute using Amazon ECS and EC2 instances with Docker.
  • Implement observability with Prometheus/Grafana and maintain alerting systems.
  • Deploy and manage containerized machine-learning services for clients.
  • Oversee Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, including backups and upgrades.
  • Manage network infrastructure, including VPCs and secure access controls.

Benefits

  • 120 hrs of paid time off
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental & Vision Insurance
  • Short-term disability insurance
  • Long-term disability insurance
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Paid holidays
  • Flexible work schedule
Full Job Description
We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our team and ensure reliable software deployment and continuous delivery for our platform that ingests and processes real-time weather data from field sensors and gridded forecasts. This data provides critical insights to optimize operations in electric transmission.

Description

Role Description

You'll own our AWS infrastructure end to end, but this isn't a keep-the-lights-on job. There is real infrastructure to build. You'll stand up new customer environments as we grow, scale the cloud and ML infrastructure behind our forecasting products, and build the automation behind our SOC 2 program. You view compliance as a byproduct of good engineering and not a quarterly fire drill.

We're an AI-driven company. AI tooling runs throughout our engineering workflow, because it's how a team our size covers this much ground.

If you're passionate about building cloud infrastructure, automation, and work that makes the electric grid safer, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities
  • Build and manage CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions: build container images, push them to Amazon ECR, and promote them across environments using short-lived federated credentials, not long-lived keys.
  • Own our infrastructure as code: Terraform modules and remote state, nothing that lives only in the console, and a bill kept honest with budgets, billing alerts, and right-sizing.
  • Operate our hybrid compute footprint: Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate, plus Amazon EC2 instances running Dockerized workloads under systemd.
  • Own observability and centralized logging: our self-hosted Prometheus/Grafana stack, the log pipeline and search stack behind it, and alert rules worth acting on.
  • Operate our machine-learning services: deploy and run containerized inference for our customers, manage GPU instances, and keep multi-gigabyte model images and their registry lifecycle under control.
  • Own Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL: backups and point-in-time recovery, version upgrades, parameter groups, connection limits, and the slow-query conversation with the app team.
  • Own networking end to end: VPCs and segmentation, ALBs, NGINX in front of our Java apps, and the secure access paths engineers use to reach private infrastructure.
  • Implement and manage AWS security controls (IAM, encryption, and audit logging) and own the infrastructure side of our SOC 2 program: access control, patch automation, and vulnerability management.


Minimum Qualifications
  • Experience: 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
  • Cloud Infrastructure (AWS): Design, deployment, and operation of scalable cloud architectures such as Amazon ECS in production (task definitions, service deploys, rollbacks), Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, VPC networking (private subnets, NAT vs. VPC endpoints, security groups, DNS), and Elastic Load Balancing.
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform in production, including writing modules, managing remote state, and handling drift.
  • Automation and CI/CD: GitHub Actions for building, testing, and deploying containerized services or equivalent experience you can transfer.
  • Monitoring and Logging: You've owned an alerting stack rather than just read its dashboards, and you can defend which alerts you deleted. Comfortable with Prometheus and Grafana, and with a log search stack (Elasticsearch/Kibana, OpenSearch, or similar).
  • Python and Linux: Python for automation, tooling, and diagnostics; Linux administration in production (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux).
  • Security: Least-privilege IAM design, secrets management, encryption, and supply-chain hygiene in CI
  • Working with AI Tools: Fluency with AI assistants in day-to-day engineering work, paired with a grasp of the concepts underneath them. Know what the models are doing and when and why they fail. You move faster with them, and you know enough to catch them when they're confidently wrong.


Desired Qualifications
  • JVM Applications: Keeping Maven-built Java/Spring applications healthy in production: heap and GC behavior.
  • PostgreSQL Depth: Query and index tuning, RDS Performance Insights, and pg_stat_statements.
  • ML and GPU Operations: Serving models in production, managing the instances behind them, and orchestrating jobs (SkyPilot or similar).
  • Geospatial or Weather Data: Familiarity with HRRR, GRIB, Zarr, or similar gridded datasets.
  • Compliance: SOC 2, plus control automation, vulnerability scanning, and patch management at scale.
  • Critical-Infrastructure Customer Support: Supporting a product deployed into regulated customer environments which includes utility-sector security reviews, NERC CIP exposure, or third-party risk assessments.


Benefits
  • 120 hrs of paid time off
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental & Vision Insurance
  • Short-term disability insurance
  • Long-term disability insurance
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Paid holidays
  • Flexible work schedule

About Gusto

Gusto is a cloud-based human resources software platform that provides payroll, benefits, and HR management services to small businesses. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Gusto's platform automates many of the administrative tasks associated with HR, such as payroll processing, tax filings, and benefits administration. The company also offers a range of HR services, including compliance support, employee onboarding, and time tracking. Gusto is committed to helping small businesses succeed by providing them with the tools and resources they need to manage their HR operations more efficiently.
Learn more about Gusto
Size
1,000 employees
Industry
Founded
2012

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