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Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote - United States)

PDQ

PDQ

Software Engineering
Remote
Posted 6+ months ago
PDQ, founded in Salt Lake City, UT, makes device management simple, secure, and Pretty Damn Quick. IT teams use our products to reduce complexity, improve efficiency, and enhance control in their unique environments. We are backed by TA Associates and Berkshire Partners, top-tier global PE companies. SimpleMDM and SmartDeploy are powered by PDQ.
PDQ's Mission: We make device management simple, secure and pretty damn quick.
PDQ's Core Values: Honesty, Ownership, Collaboration and Improvement
A DevOps Engineer at PDQ plays a crucial role throughout the product development lifecycle to boost developer productivity and ensure efficient processes. Through close collaboration with development teams, they deliver highly performant applications. Through clear understanding of automation tools, they implement consistent and maintainable infrastructure.

How you'll spend your day:

  • Assist in migrating workloads to Kubernetes
  • Configuring and building Infrastructure as code in Terraform
  • Assist development teams with standards and practices around CI/CD
  • Assist development teams with infrastructure planning and testing
  • Collaborate with development teams to increase efficiency
  • Development and monitoring of infrastructure (test and production environments)
  • Respond to and resolve infrastructure health and performance issues
  • Participate in weekly on-call rotation and incident management
  • Ensure cloud application continuity with disaster recovery plans

We're looking for people who have:

  • Experience and expertise working with Kubernetes
  • Experience with tools to define infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)
  • Ability to troubleshoot problems
  • Understanding of the importance of security best practices
  • A mindset of collaboration and empathy when working with the team or developers
  • Bonus: Experience writing technical documentation
  • Bonus: Experience in the configuration of tracing, centralized logs, metrics, and monitoring
  • Bonus: Proficiency with Cloud technologies (Specifically, Google Cloud Platform or Azure)

Tools we use:

  • Google Cloud Platform/Azure
  • Kubernetes/Helm/Docker (managed GKE)
  • Terraform, GitHub/GitHub Actions
  • PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis
  • Grafana, Sentry, etc.
  • Applications written in Elixir, C#, Go, Ruby, JavaScript
Do you think you have what it takes but don’t necessarily meet all the requirements? Apply anyway - you could be exactly who we are looking for!
PDQ offers all of the great perks and benefits you'd expect from working at a very cool tech company, and even some you might not expect, including:
4-Day Work Week
Managers who champion professional development and are technically experienced (the best kind of experience)
100% Premium Coverage for medical, dental and vision for you and your dependents
100% Premium Coverage for Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance
Company Match of the first 6% of your employee deferrals after you’ve been employed with us for 90 days
Flexible Paid Time Off Policy that treats you like the adult that you are
Health Savings Account (HSA) and wellness incentives
Quarterly Company Values Award (team member nominated)
PDQ is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law. If you would like to request reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process, please contact hr@pdq.com.
*Currently, candidates who are eligible for fully remote positions can live in any of the following US states: AR, AZ, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KY, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, OK, OR, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI.