Remote DevOps Engineer

Join Our Team as a DevOps Engineer

String and Key is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team of over 60 professionals. As a DevOps Engineer, you will be a key contributor to our build/deployment and production infrastructure, working closely with our Engineering team under the guidance of our Head of Platform Engineering. This role offers flexibility with remote work options within the U.S, Canada, or Latin America (EST or CST preferred).

Responsibilities

• Create and Maintain Systems: Develop, build, test, and deploy in-house applications and vendor solutions on cloud infrastructure.
• Platform Management: Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, and AWS.
• Collaboration: Work with engineers to provide a robust “you build it, you run it” platform supported by the infrastructure team.
• Incident Management: Troubleshoot priority incidents, facilitate postmortems, and ensure permanent closure of incidents by addressing root causes.
• Continuous Improvement: Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance, and stability, automating improvements and minimizing manual upkeep.

Requirements

• Experience: 3+ years of relevant work experience.
• CI/CD Expertise: Strong understanding of a YAML-based CI tool like CircleCI.
• Containerization: Real-world experience with the build and deployment of Docker/OCI container images into Kubernetes.
• Programming Skills: Ability to program in a scripting language such as Ruby, Go, or Python. Ruby is a bonus as we use it for other internal software.
• Software Development Practices: Understand modern team software development and testing tools and practices, including CI/CD and “gitops” approaches.
• Engineering Best Practices: Knowledgeable of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture.

Diversity and Inclusion

String and Key is a proud equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in and outside of the workplace. We strongly believe that everyone deserves a seat at the table and we support a culture where our people are empowered to be their authentic selves each and every day.

Benefits

• A Great Team: We focus on hiring people from diverse backgrounds who are easy to get along with and fantastic teammates.
• Flexible Work Schedule: We’re interested in what you contribute more so than when you do it.
• Work-Life Balance: Unlimited PTO, Paid Holidays, along with Paid Summer Fridays and Paid Parental Leave.
• Competitive Compensation: Exact compensation range is determined based on your region, years of experience, and specific skill set using aggregate market data from PayScale.
• Health & Wellness: We offer 100% Medical Care Coverage for you and generous contributions for family, Dental and Vision Coverage, Work-from-home monthly stipend, 401k with a 4% Match, Health and Wellness Reimbursement, Free talkspace membership, Voluntary Long-term and Short-term Disability, Life Insurance and FSA/HSA.
• Career Development: String and Key believes in upskilling their teams so each employee is provided a $1,000 annual training allowance.
• Friendly Office Environments: Two modern offices; one in Dumbo, Brooklyn and the other in Durham, NC, offering a variety of working spaces for individual or team collaboration with free meals and snacks.
• Social Events: Monthly culture events, celebrations, team outings, lunch and learns, and social hours held both in-person and virtually.

If you are a proactive DevOps Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is eager to contribute to innovative projects, we encourage you to apply and join our team at String and Key.