DevOps Engineer

Parallel Systems

$145K — $174K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering roles
  • 1+ year with Terraform, Ansible, or other Infrastructure as Code tools
  • Hands-on Kubernetes administration experience
  • Comfort with Linux CLI, shell scripting, and Git workflows
  • 1+ year experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and pipeline tools
  • Experience in writing Helm charts
  • Strong understanding of core internet technologies like DNS and TCP/IP.

Responsibilities

  • Write and maintain Terraform modules for AWS cloud infrastructure
  • Package and manage application deployments with Helm charts
  • Automate tasks using Ansible playbooks
  • Support operation and management of Kubernetes clusters
  • Contribute to GitOps workflows with ArgoCD
  • Collaborate with development teams to enhance CI/CD pipelines
  • Maintain and improve secrets management using HashiCorp Vault
  • Enhance cybersecurity posture with best practices
  • Optimize network infrastructure for performance.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with senior engineers
  • Hands-on experience with modern cloud-native tooling
  • Contribution to significant infrastructure improvements
  • Supportive onboarding process with clear success metrics
  • Opportunity for continuous learning and development.
Full Job Description
We're looking for a driven DevOps Engineer to join our infrastructure team. You'll help build, maintain, and improve the infrastructure that keeps our systems running reliably at scale. Working alongside senior engineers, you'll gain hands-on experience with modern cloud-native tooling - from provisioning infrastructure with Terraform to deploying applications via ArgoCD on Kubernetes.

What You'll Work On
  • Write and maintain Terraform modules to provision and manage cloud infrastructure (mostly AWS) in a consistent, repeatable way
  • Package and manage application deployments using Helm charts, including templating, versioning, and chart repository management
  • Automate configuration management and application provisioning tasks using Ansible playbooks and roles
  • Support the operation of Kubernetes clusters - deploying workloads, debugging pod failures, managing namespaces, RBAC, and resource quotas
  • Contribute to GitOps workflows using ArgoCD, maintaining application sync policies and managing rollouts and rollbacks
  • Collaborate with development teams to improve CI/CD pipelines and reduce deployment friction
  • Maintain and expand our secrets management systems and workflows built on HashiCorp Vault
  • Improve and support our cybersecurity posture by applying cybersecurity standards and best practices
  • Optimize our network infrastructure to handle additional workloads and applications

What Success Looks Like
  • After 30 Days: You understand the fundamentals of Parallel's existing Terraform modules, Helm charts, and Ansible playbooks, and have familiarized yourself with our current architecture and conventions. You have submitted your first pull request.
  • After 60 Days: Own and ship at least one significant Terraform, Helm, or Ansible change end-to-end, from writing to code review to production merge. Understand how platform work impacts product delivery.
  • After 90 Days: Take ownership of Parallel's infrastructure (a service, a cluster, or a pipeline) and be the go-to person for it. You have contributed a measurable improvement to Parallel's infrastructure and are actively supporting deployment and product testing efforts.

Basic Qualifications
  • 3-5 years of experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering role.
  • Minimum 1 year experience with Terraform, Ansible, Chef or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Configuration Management (CM) tools
  • Hands-on Kubernetes administration experience: networking (CNI, ingress), storage (PVCs, StorageClasses), workload management (Deployments, StatefulSets, Jobs, CronJobs), and troubleshooting
  • Comfort with Linux CLI, shell scripting, and Git workflows
  • Minimum 1 year experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and pipeline tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.)
  • Experience writing Helm charts from scratch or building on upstream charts
  • Strong understanding of core internet technologies like DNS, TCP/IP and the OSI model, HTTP, and TLS.
  • Familiarity with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry)
  • Experience with scripting in at least one language (Shell, Python, etc.)
  • Strong understanding of security concepts (least privilege, CIA triad, defense in depth)
  • Hands-on experience with ArgoCD or another GitOps tool (Flux, etc.)
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, and good documentation habits

Preferred Qualifications
  • Familiarity with secrets management, especially with HashiCorp Vault or External Secrets Operator
  • Understanding of authentication and authorization schemes (SAML, OIDC)
  • Relevant certifications: CKA, Terraform Associate, AWS SAA, etc.


We are committed to providing fair and transparent compensation in accordance with applicable laws. Salary ranges are listed below and reflect the expected range for new hires in this role, based on factors such as skills, experience, qualifications, and location. Final compensation may vary and will be determined during the interview process. The target hiring range for this position is listed below.

Target Salary Range:

$145,000-$174,000 USD

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