The Senior DevOps Engineer will design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure, automate processes, and collaborate across teams to optimize performance and ensure operational success.
About Avive:
Avive Solutions, Inc. (https://avive.life) is a growth stage Automated External Defibrillator (AED) company with a connected response system that is rapidly gaining market share. We are a mission driven team that is quite literally saving lives. Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is a leading cause of death in the United States, and we are on a mission to change that! We are a dynamic organization that builds elegant, creative solutions to solve complex problems. Ultimately, our mission is for all cardiac arrest victims to have rapid access to life-saving defibrillation.
Avive is taking a fresh approach to addressing this decades-old problem by innovating AED technology, coupled with a first-of-its-kind software platform solution to enable a quicker and more streamlined response to SCA emergencies. We believe that this unique combination of deploying advanced – yet still accessible – hardware, and software, has the potential to revolutionize out-of-hospital cardiac arrest response and massively impact SCA survival rates.
Check out this short video that shows a glimpse of how our team is working to re-think cardiac arrest response and save lives!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p4zfOWo62E
Learn more about working at Avive:https://avive.life/careers/
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain robust, scalable infrastructure and automation solutions.
- Automate and optimize infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, deployment processes and
operational repetitive tasks. - Execute infrastructure and application deployments to upper cloud environments.
- Develop, maintain, optimize CI/CD pipelines and operational workflows.
- Monitor & optimize system performance & resource utilization and identify bottlenecks
- Implement scalable and reliable systems that support product growth and team agility.
- Troubleshoot, determine root causes and resolve technical issues.
- Participate in code reviews and provide feedback on best practices.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with cloud, firmware, and hardware development teams to integrate and align
solutions. - Document operational processes, tools, and workflows to ensure knowledge sharing and smooth transitions.
(Confluence)
Required Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field or compensating
additional experience in lieu of degree. - 3-10 years of experience in a DevOps or similar role, focusing on automation coding, system integration, and operations
- Ability to work comfortably in a command line a Linux computing environment
- Proficiency in scripting languages (Bash & Python) and use of APIs/SDKs
- Proficiency in IaC languages (Pulumi, Terraform)
- Proficiency in CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
- Knowledge of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECR/EKS)
- Strong knowledge of and good ability to work with source control systems (Git)
- Strong experience working in cloud-based environments (AWS)
- Strong experience in root cause analysis and resolution of operational issues.
- Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and GitOps concepts, with hands-on experience in implementing and
maintaining these methodologies. - Understanding of systems monitoring, alerting, and incident management.
- Experience working in Agile or DevOps-driven teams, focused on continuous improvement.
- Experience using agile boards for work tasking and status. (JIRA
Preferred Experience and Qualifications
- Experience with ElasticSearch, ElasticSearch Agent & Kibana.
- Experience with setup and deployment of Kubernetes Dashboard.
- Experience with website certificate management.
- Experience with WireGuard VPN.
- Proficiency in Linux administration, networking and firewalls.
- Experience with security best practices and tools.
- Experience incorporating security compliance and best practices into DevOps automation workflows (e.g.,
DevSecOps). - Professional certifications in cloud platforms, security, or DevOps technologies are highly desirable.
- Enthusiasm for learning new technologies, improving existing processes, and staying current with industry
trends.
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is the policy of the company to provide equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
NOTE: This Job Description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties or functions to be performed by the incumbent. Personnel are required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties/functions requested by their supervisor.
Candidate may reside in US or Canada
Anticipated salary range: $165,000 - $200,000
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