Remote - Senior DevOps Engineer
SimSpace
Who is SimSpace:
SimSpace launched in 2015 with a singular purpose – addressing the most urgent and sophisticated cybersecurity challenges to reduce risk for our most vulnerable and valuable infrastructure. The organizations around the world that we depend on every day to keep our loved ones safe and secure. Our healthcare facilities, schools, financial institutions, transit centers, grocery stores, and workplaces just to name a few. To deliver global resiliency, we provide an elite cyber range platform to curate unassailable cyber defenses, data driven decisions, cutting edge training labs, live attack scenarios, and extensive individual and dynamic team readiness training.
SimSpace works as OneTeam to elevate humanity around the world. We are committed to continuously improving and delivering a cultivated member experience whether that is accomplished through focusing on supporting our client’s teams or our own mission driven SimSpacers.
We are an international company headquartered in Boston's Fort Point in the U.S. If you are interested in elevating the technology and creative solutions necessary to secure and safeguard our future while working alongside others who share your passion for purpose and development, we want to meet you!
Why should you choose a career at SimSpace?
We are an organization that is focused on building our culture and mindfully enhancing our atmosphere everyday which is why we have collaborated on an integral value system. Our governing philosophy of being Human Centered is deeply embedded within our value system. We apply this philosophy to every one of our internal team members, external clients, and their customers.
Our core values:
- Serve to Protect – We provide safe space, deliver on the mission, and elevate humanity
- Acquire Understanding – We seek and provide clarity 10x, cultivate comprehension, and believe information goes both all ways
- Operate as Innovators – We stay curious, practice consistency over intensity, and continue to be the change we need in the world
- Teamwork Without Borders – We are never alone, we solve for all, and keep people at the heart of everything we do
We are looking for:
A DevOps Engineer who will work with a team as a senior technology practitioner to build realistic virtualized enterprise networks that our customers rely on for the training, assessing, and testing of their people, processes, and technologies. This position will lead the effort across teams to define, set up, and continually improve our infrastructure-as-code and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows and systems. They will also work closely with our Engineering and Product teams to define and distill customer requirements.
The successful candidate will have a demonstrated ability to use professional oral and written communication along with strong analytical and critical thinking skills to successfully take ownership and drive the technology. Effective and collaborative interactions with colleagues, end users, IT leaders, and business stakeholders is critical to ensure success.
What will you be doing as a Senior DevOps Engineer at SimSpace?
- Design and implement automated provisioning and configuration frameworks in support of infrastructure-as-code
- Design and implement CI/CD frameworks
- Define and maintain infrastructure configurations in code for increased scalability, repeatability, and consistency.
- Implement automation tools and practices to streamline deployment processes and ensure consistency across environments.
- Help architect cyber ranges based on customer requirements or needs
- Automate deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications
- Design, implement, configure and manage system monitoring solutions that alert teams to problems before customers are impacted
- Collaborate with development teams to automate and streamline the software delivery process from code commit to production deployments
- Take ownership of unresolved issues, seeking in-depth knowledge for timely resolution
- Implement version control, automated testing, and release management strategies to enhance development workflows
- Enhance and proactively monitor automated deployment solutions across various products and environments
- Provide support for automation orchestration during application releases
What are the qualifications to apply? To be successful as a Senior DevOps Engineer, you need to have:
- Advanced degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field or equivalent experience
- 4+ years experience in DevOps
- 4+ years managing configuration management solutions
- Experience with software development principles, including version control systems, Agile development methodologies, and automated CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Concourse, Jenkins, Git)
- Deep background in virtualization platforms (e.g. VMware, HyperV, OpenStack)
- Experience designing and implementing infrastructure-as-code APIs using tools like Swagger
- Demonstrated competency in programming/scripting languages (with a preference for Go, Ansible, Python, Terraform, and Puppet)
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues
We provide the following:
- Salary Range $115,000 - 165,000
- Comprehensive benefits package that start on day one
- 401k match with immediate vesting
- Flex time, the time off you need when you need it
- Equity options at hire and potential for additional based on performance
- Generous employee referral bonus program
- Peloton Interactive Wellness Program
- LinkedIn Learning Membership
- Monthly reimbursement for meaningful connections with other SimSpacers
SimSpace is an Equal Opportunity Employer:
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
SimSpace does not and shall not discriminate based on race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression and identity, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military/veteran status, in any of its activities or operations. We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our staff, clients, volunteers, subcontractors, vendors, and clients.
Research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups only apply to jobs if they meet all of the qualifications. However, no one ever meets 100% of the qualifications. SimSpace encourages you to break that statistic and to apply. We look forward to your application!
We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, in accordance with applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact careers@simspace.com.
SimSpace does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies.
Actual compensation for the position is based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to affordability, skills, qualifications and experience, and may vary from the range.