Position Overview:The Aravo product development team places an emphasis on meaningful contribution by all members in a creative, collaborative, and sustainable environment where opportunities for growth, leadership, and recognition abound. The Engineering Leader will enhance and maintain a highly configurable, multi-tenant, enterprise class, SaaS solution that incorporates cross-organizational collaborative workflows, data integration, and a rich user interface built on a complex data model. This role will work primarily on driving Operational Excellence and improving our team's Developer Experience through automation, visibility, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities:- Evolve DevOps practices by creating a culture of change, gathering continuous feedback, and driving efficiency through automation.
- Manage and improve CI / CD pipelines and infrastructure as Code (IaC), focusing on engineering efficiencies, quality, and security, to accelerate deployment cycles.
- Partner with product architects and engineering teams to influence architecture and drive key technology decisions.
- Develop and execute a comprehensive strategy to ensure that all infrastructure, systems, and services are scalable, secure, and cost effective.
- Drive operational excellence by implementing best practices for observability and incident management with KPIs to measure effectiveness and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure infrastructure, tools, software, and SaaS vendors adhere to security best practices and compliance requirements.
- Build, mentor, and support a team of engineers, creating a culture of continuous improvement and innovation that meets business needs.
- Assist in diagnosing and resolving customer issues, offering support for debugging and remediating issues.
- Participate in Agile/Scrum practices such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives as well as managing project timelines and deliverables effectively.
- Provide 24/7/365 coverage to support internal and external customers.
RequirementsQualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience in related field.
- 8+ years of DevOps experience, 3+ years in a leadership role.
- Adept at designing and architecting solutions in self-hosted, private / public cloud, and hybrid environments (Rackspace, AWS, Azure).
- Previous experience implementing DevOps best practices, tools, and methodologies, including CI / CD pipelines (TeamCity, GitLabs, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and IaC (Ansible, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation / CDK).
- Management of SaaS applications (Java, Spring Boot, Oracle), including monitoring, incident management, and triaging issues.
- Deep understanding of observability tools for monitoring, logging, and analysis (Datadog, Sumo Logic, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK).
- Knowledge of networking principles and how it applies to data flow and security.
- Experience debugging complex applications in Linux environments.
- History of mentoring and growing effective engineering teams.
- Worked within Agile and Lean software development teams.
Preferred Qualifications/Skills/Soft Skills:- Results oriented, product focused, and at ease in an environment requiring the ability to quickly and appropriately prioritize conflicting demands.
- Strong analytical skills, and excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- High degree of initiative consistently demonstrated by the active ownership of complex problems through their successful resolution.
- Team player eager to work closely with, learn from, and mentor others while continually improving self and team.
- Innately curious about new technologies and their practical application in a startup environment.
- Flexibility and willingness to pitch in and wear more than one hat in a dynamic organization.
Benefits- 100% Employer Paid Medical Insurance options for the Employee and Family
- Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Long-Term Disability Insurance
- 401K with Company Matching
- Equity Participation
- 4 Weeks of Vacation
- Fully Stocked Kitchens
- Company-Sponsored Charitable Day of Giving Events
- ......and many more!
