Senior DevOps Engineer

Sr DevOps Engineer

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Twist, you will be working closely with the eCommerce, Salesforce, Bioinformatics and MES software groups to build and automate systems to deploy and monitor scalable, high-availability systems critical to the success of our business and the future of DNA synthesis on a massive scale. You will have significant impact throughout the company and your passion will be quickly felt and recognized.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Influence the development of solutions that impact strategic projects/program goals and business results
• Constantly evaluate continuous integration and continuous deployment solutions as the industry evolves, and develop standardized best practices
• Maintain domain knowledge expertise in public cloud architectures and best practices
• Resolve highly complex problems using a significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualization, reasoning and interpretation
• Follow regulatory and ISO 13485 requirements

What You’ll Bring to the Team

• BS/MS in Computer Science / Engineering and minimum 5 years of relevant work experience
• Managing Docker container deployment and orchestration including AWS ECS and Kubernetes
• Deep system-level familiarity with Linux operating systems and scripting in Bash. Python knowledge a plus.
• Authoring automated deployments using Terraform.
• Automated provision/orchestration of AWS resources (e.g. via CloudFormation or other frameworks)
• System performance monitoring, reporting and optimization
• Source control in Git
• Experience with container (Docker, ECS, EKS), serverless (Lambda), and Virtual Machine (VMware, KVM) architectures.
• Experience bootstrapping and automating the build of complete environments
• Experience with automated build in Jenkins or similar CI tools
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration frameworks
• Experience in managing multiple AWS environments and AWS ecosystem.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage conflict effectively.
• Ability to adapt and be productive in a dynamic environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills supporting multiple stakeholders and business operations.
• Self-starter, self-managed, and a team player.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep understanding of high-performance/distributed computing concepts, software development lifecycle and database and query performance monitoring/tuning
• Ability to automate builds, repetitive tasks, log analysis programmatically
• AWS Solutions Architect Certification or AWS SysOps Administrator

The base cash compensation for this California-based role is targeted at $156,000 - $173,056 + bonus + equity + benefits. Final compensation amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate skill, experience, expertise, and location and may vary from the amount listed above. Compensation may be different in other locations."