Senior DevOps Engineer/Architect, Dispel

• Must have several years of experience as a software engineer and at least a few years experience as an architect either full time or hybrid
• Proven ability to design distributed systems, microservices, and APIs
• Experience with multi-tier architectures, service-oriented architecture (SOA), or event-driven systems
• Knowledge of scalability patterns, caching strategies, disaster recovery, and high-availability design
• Experience designing secure cloud environments (IAM, VPC, encryption, audit logging)
• Familiarity with industry compliance frameworks (SOC 2, IEC 62443, FedRAMP, etc)
• Fast learner. Degrees and certificates aren’t a determining factor for us. Rather, we value your ability to care about your work and learn fast
• Communication and team culture are very important at Dispel. You’ll be joining a collaborative team where new ideas and contributions are encouraged. These criteria are soft, but just relax and be genuine
• A willingness to accept failure and feedback, learn and try again
• A passion for learning new disciplines and gaining a deep understanding of how others on the team do their work
• An ability to communicate clearly and succinctly both in-person and over team chat

Desirable

• Dispel Engineering is in charge of building and maintaining Dispels products
• Engineering interacts closely with Product, Operations, and Project management
• All members of the engineering team are expected to be honest, competent and easy to work with
• Communicating around the state of plans and execution as well as continually learning about the technologies used in Dispels products is also expected of all team members
• In Dispel Engineering we help each other before we help ourselves, we succeed or fail as a team
• Discovery (Primary Focus - 65%)
• [█████████] 9/9 – Can handle being given completely ambiguous instructions
• Knows when requirements are lacking or missing and can take appropriate counter measures
• Very good at technical documentation
• Capacity to balance business and technical complexity
• Able to clearly articulate tradeoffs between design decisions across financial, timeline, and technical measures
• Translate complex business requests into concrete and actionable designs
• Comfortable with various software and cloud technology design patterns
• Enabling Others (Secondary Focus - 35%)
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading architecture reviews
• Strong verbal/written communication and documentation habits
• Ability to balance short-term needs with long-term technical vision
• Provide technical leadership on difficult projects, working with product and engineering to drive projects to completion