DevOps Engineer

About Concept3D

Concept3D provides the ability to create an elevated, university-branded experience for student events, interactive mapping, virtual tours, and more within one, centralized platform. Concept3D empowers administrators to bring their campus to life with visually stunning, immersive online experiences that improve campus communications, recruitment, and navigation while engaging current and potential students. Serving the higher education community for over a decade, Concept3D clients include more than 700 universities and colleges, including over 70% of the top 100 U.S. universities, as well as live events, destinations, and sporting venues.

Team Culture

We are a group of dedicated and multi-faceted individuals who are self-motivated and are excited to be a part of a company that is charting the future of interactive maps, tours and events. We define ourselves through the values by which we operate. Employees have an opportunity to learn all elements of the business, and direct access to the leadership team. Our teams are full of ideas and everyone's voice gets heard. While our offices are in Denver, Colorado, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, we currently are operating remotely with a nationally-distributed team.

Job Summary

This position calls for a DevOps Engineer who exemplifies our core values, works well with leadership and fellow engineering team members, and brings practical experience in development and maintenance of a cloud-based software platform. This role will help advance DevOps practices in support of multiple software engineering teams and provides a wealth of opportunity for learning, professional growth, and collaboration. Flexibility when working with both manual and automated processes is required with a desire and ability to improve processes through automation. The DevOps Engineer will utilize strong written communication skills to follow and complete detailed requests, track changes made to various systems, and create documentation. As a core member of the Operations team, the DevOps Engineer is responsible for ensuring uninterrupted availability of multiple Concept3D software applications.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will report directly to the Systems Operations Manager, who will be primarily responsible for providing direction and evaluating your performance.

Responsibilities

• Implement Continuous Delivery and execute automated or manual deployments for development, test, and production environments, create CI/CD pipelines
• Administer, maintain, and troubleshoot Ubuntu Linux based systems
• Manage manual and automated changes through Development, QA, and Production environments
• Work closely with software engineering teams to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
• Actively participate in agile planning and release processes
• Employ continuous learning to grow professional and domain expertise
• Be available to support occasional deployments during after-hours maintenance windows
• Provide occasional on-call support to quickly address and resolve critical production issues outside of regular business hours
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Who You Are (do you identify with a majority of these?)

• You have knowledge of industry best practices for DevOps in a cloud computing environment
• You are organized, methodical, and consistent
• You have a desire to work on rich, interactive web applications in the cloud
• You have experience working with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure)
• You have experience working with Docker based container deployments
• You have experience with monitoring and alerting
• You have experience with agile software development and working as part of a collaborative agile team
• You are motivated to automate manual tasks
• You have worked in an environment that follows CI/CD practices
• You have experience learning and using a variety of open-source technologies and tools
• You have strong attention to detail and can maintain consistency between development and production environments
• You have knowledge of SOC 2 or other security frameworks and experience with vulnerability scanning and/or application security testing
  

Preferred Technologies (do you have experience with some of these?)

• CI/CD, Jenkins
• AWS / Azure
• Linux / Ubuntu
• Git
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools (CloudFormation / Terraform)
• CloudSearch, Elasticsearch, etc.

Benefits

• Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
• Flexible Paid Time Off program
• 14 Paid Holidays Annually + your Birthday!
• 401(k) Plan with Employer Match
• Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Employee Stock Option Plan
• Annual Education/Development for continued learning
• Annual Travel Allowance perk
• Work from Home Office perk
  

Compensation

The base salary range for this position is $80,000- $120,000 annually. Final compensation for this role is determined by a variety of factors, such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skills, and certification.