We are seeking an engineer to join our growing DevOps team at thoughtbot. In this role, you will productionize infrastructure for our rapidly-growing and industry-defining Mission Control team. The ideal candidate will be comfortable with common DevOps tools like Kubernetes and Terraform, as well as cloud platforms including AWS. This role has significant growth potential as you work directly with our leadership team to build our platform for rapid, developer-friendly cloud deployments.

This is a remote position. You can be located anywhere in the world, but we are looking for someone who will be available to work between 11:00PM and 3:00AM UTC. As a member of the thoughtbot team, you will also become a member of our global thoughtbot community. We are a team of designers and developers around the world with remote clusters in Boston, San Francisco, New York, Raleigh-Durham, Austin, Miami, Arizona, Latin America, and London.

About thoughtbot

thoughtbot works with companies in every step of the product development and maintenance process to help identify and solve problems. We lead and participate in product design sprints, build high-quality apps, and then deploy them. We use emerging and effective technologies and methods on both internal and client projects. We believe that it is possible to continuously learn and improve the way people work while building higher-quality products that make positive contributions to the world.

Additionally, we maintain an inclusive work environment where everyone can thrive professionally, as well as have full lives outside of work. thoughtbot does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. We welcome you to apply and let us know if you need any reasonable accommodations during the interview process.

Want to dig deeper? Read more about our Purpose and Values, how we work in our Playbook, or check out this video to hear from our team.

Requirements

This DevOps Engineer role at thoughtbot Mission Control brings together a broad understanding of, and experience with, tools and technologies, security training and testing expertise, and people skills (collaboration and flexibility). As a DevOps Engineer at thoughtbot you will:

• Build and maintain AWS and Kubernetes environments
• Design and implement continuous integration and deployment platform
• Productionize local environments into cloud-scale availability
• Improve our automated infrastructure
• Improve our testing and deployment pipelines
• Collaborate with DevOps team members as well as all of thoughtbot
• Value quality, trust, continuous improvement, and self-management.

Qualifications

Well-qualified candidates will have:

• Full-stack development mindset, comfortable working in any part of the stack and learning on the job
• 3+ years experience building and deploying applications in Ruby, Python, or Javascript
• 3+ years of experience working in DevOps role
• 3+ years of experience deploying to AWS
• 1+ years of experience and passion for Kubernetes and open source
• Ability to take a functioning application running in a local environment and work with product leads to productionize in AWS or Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture
• Experience designing, documenting, and deploying development pipelines that maximize engineer’s ability to quickly and safely build features
• Desire to set & meet aggressive goals and ability to work in a fast paced environment with a risk management mindset
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Benefits

In addition to competitive compensation, we also offer a comprehensive benefits package the specifics of which depend on where you reside. You can view all of our benefits at https://benefits.thoughtbot.com.

Our team works in a relaxed and educational environment to develop excellent products for our clients. We work a sustainable pace of 40 hours/week, consulting for clients 80% of our time. We also like to learn. Everything we do is predicated on having a great team and a culture of growing. We use the latest technologies and are always down to try new methods on both internal and client projects.

thoughtbot does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.

thoughtbot does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes not originating directly from a candidate and sent to thoughtbot or any thoughtbot's employees, including unsolicited resumes sent to a thoughtbot mailing address or email address, are rejected. thoughtbot will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. thoughtbot considers any candidate for whom the recruiter has submitted an unsolicited resume referred by the company free of any fees.