DevOps Engineer - (Python, Java, Typescript, AWS/CDK)

Title: DevOps Engineer

FLSA: Exempt

Reports to: (Head of Engineering)

Based in: St. Petersburg, FL

Work Type: Onsite with some Hybrid

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Pole Star Defense is a leading provider of maritime domain awareness, maritime security, and fisheries monitoring systems to the government sector. Since 1998, we have pushed the limits of innovation, mitigating growing threats to ships, supply chains, cargo, territorial waters and, most importantly, safety of lives at sea and beyond. Today, we continue to develop and implement pioneering intelligence technologies to protect customer vessels, people, maritime domain, and reputation.

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

Pole Star Defense is searching for a decisive and insightful DevOps Engineer to join our maritime defense community! The DevOps Engineer will be involved in various stages of each product’s lifespan and proactively ensure the stability, resiliency, and scalability of our services. They should have a track record of implementing tools to accelerate testing, development, and deployment of applications in cloud native environments.

The ideal candidate will be a curious, discerning envelope pusher with top-notch decision making and collaborative abilities. They will be customer oriented with the ability to receive and use constructive criticism to improve overall customer experience and enhance internal systems.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and maintain mission-critical information extraction, analysis, and management systems

• Collaborate on the design and implementation of the Company’s Disaster Recovery Plan

• Collaborate with the other Engineering team members on the architecture, design, and delivery of production systems

• Work alongside project management teams to successfully monitor progress and implementation of initiatives

• Collaborate with IT Teams to optimize IT infrastructure by designing cyber-secure systems, updates, and practices

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines, automated and standardized deployments, and zero-time deployments

• Automate change management and delivery pipeline into production

• Ensure safety, predictability, repeatability, and auditability of all build and deploy processes

• Design and set up monitoring and alerting of our production systems

• Support Major Incident response when required and completing blameless Root Cause Analysis and Incident Reviews

• 5+ Years experience in an engineering/DevOps role.

• Proven Programming background in languages such as Python, Typescript, Java etc.

• CI/CD processes and tools (DevSecOps, GitHub Actions and AWS CodePipeline).

• Experience with CDK preferred (Terraform, CloudFormation alternatively).

• Experience with Docker Compose and Docker-isation of applications.

• Container orchestration services such as Kubernetes, ECS, EKS.

• Familiar with AWS cloud services, of particular interest will be CDK.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills with a keen sense of customer service

• Process oriented with great documentation skills

• Experience of knowledge of Agile Software Development methodologies

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, IS or similar field (IT experience can substitute for a BS degree)

DESIRED SKILLS (Not Required):

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

TRAVEL REQUIRED:

• Ability for up to 10% travel both domestic and international.

Pole Star Defense offers benefits that are designed to lead an evolving marketplace and encourage a healthy balance between work and life. Highlights of those benefits are listed below:

• Medical, Vision, Dental, Disability insurance for employees and dependents (100% covered by company)

• Life insurance, company funded to 3x salary

• 20 days annual leave (can buy or sell more days)

• Up to a 10% Annual bonus available

• Up to a 5% 401K matching

• Gym membership subsidy

• Volunteer Day PTO

• Refer-a-friend recruitment bonus

WORK SCHEDULE NOTE:

While this position is scheduled for a traditional Monday – Friday work week, our systems run 24/7/365 and as such, you may be expected to perform out of hours, on-call support on an as needed basis. Additional compensation may be available for working on-call, standby, or holiday hours.

This is a Public Trust position and requires completion of a State and Federal Criminal History Report (i.e., background check) and may require a Department of Defense security clearance. Current and future employment will be contingent upon satisfactory completion.

This position requires use of or access to information subject to the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) or the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”). Accordingly, all applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of these regulations. Under ITAR, a U.S. person is defined as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident, or a person who is a protected individual under the immigration and Naturalization Act (8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

Pole Star Defense is a U.S. Government contractor and is an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans.

COVID 19 CONSIDERATIONS:

• Pole Star Defense follows all local and federal guidelines on how to best protect its employees, visitors, and guests from the COVID 19 virus. This includes following guidance and implementing policies set forth by the CDC, WHO and OSHA.