Sr. DevOps Engineer

About DAT

DAT is an award-winning employer of choice and a next-generation SaaS technology company that has been at the leading edge of innovation in transportation supply chain logistics for 44 years. We continue to transform the industry year over year, by deploying a suite of software solutions to millions of customers every day - customers who depend on DAT for the most relevant data and most accurate insights to help them make smarter business decisions and run their companies more profitably. We operate the largest marketplace of its kind in North America, with 227 million freight posts in 2021, and a database of $126 billion of annual global shipment market transaction data. We have co-headquarters in Portland, OR and Denver, CO, and additional offices in MO, TX, and Bangalore, India. For additional information, see www.DAT.com/company.

The Opportunity

DAT is looking for a Sr. DevOps Engineer  to join our Engineering Team team in Denver CO or Beaverton OR.

DAT Solutions is seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer to join our expanding team. We are looking for a talented Sr. DevOps Engineer who can apply their skills and experience in the Enterprise DevOps team to standardize and expand the DevSecOps practices on the enterprise scale and help software development teams build and maintain a world-class SaaS environment. should be willing to question current practices and help to push the team forward in the DevOps maturity cycle at Enterprise scale as we are growing and learning organization.

This position offers an outstanding opportunity for a highly-motivated individual who possesses a solid development/deployment/operations services background; comfortable working in a skilled and rapidly changing technical environment

What You’ll Do

• Develop and continually improve guidelines and automation solutions related to DevSecOps practices including process and efficiency improvements.
• Partner and Coach development teams to improve and educate teams on DevSecOps practices while being an evangelist at DAT.
• Participate in system design, platform management, and capacity planning to Optimize tools and processes for efficiency, stability and developer productivity.
• Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards, and make recommendations for improvement. 
• Passionate about the concept of infrastructure as code and leverages modern tools to define, build and manage virtual infrastructure in the cloud.
• Champion security, reliability, and scalability best practices across the organization.
• Assess deficiencies and points of failure in our system and design resolutions.
• Troubleshooting Kubernetes core issues with system-level services.
• Apply DevOps thinking across the organization and provide thought leadership. 
• Work with others to resolve issues in a meaningful and respectful manner.

The Skills and Experience You’ll Bring

• Expertise with AWS and AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Expert-level experience with EKS configuration and Deployments.
• Continuous Deployment of best practices knowledge and experience working with tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD, Helm, Kustomize.
• A great team player who genuinely believes in solving challenges as a team.
• Strong experience in systems architecture – particularly in complex, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Ability to program (structured and OO) with more than one high-level language, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript
• Scripting language experience i.e. NodeJS, Python, Ruby, Bash.
• Working knowledge of monitoring tools i.e. Prometheus, NewRelic, Splunk.
• Expert-level experience working with Terraform.
• The ideal candidate possesses strong problem-solving skills and industry Best practices knowledge.
• Enjoys the breaking/learning/mastery cycle.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or other equivalent engineering or science field, or equivalent combination of education and experience with the development, deployment, and reliability of a large enterprise estate.  
• 6+ years of experience in a previous DevOps role.

In compliance with Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the minimum salary for this role is $90,000.00 + benefits. The maximum compensation for this role can vary significantly depending on your job-related skills and experience. DAT considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education and training, core skills, internal equity, and market and business elements when extending an offer.

DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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