Senior Automation and Release Engineer, CIQ
+ Employee stock options
Enterprise-grade open source software infrastructure
Be an early applicant
Enterprise-grade open source software infrastructure
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Employee stock options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help everyone to continuously surpass their own expectations, goals, and be an asset to others.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking to team up with others who are passionate about helping others achieve greatness, love being impactful, and ready to dive in head first to change the world
- This role requires a deep technical understanding of Linux, modern automation and build tooling, scripting and software development, and systems engineering, as well as an insatiable appetite for learning more
- Expertise in automation, tooling, build systems, Linux, containers, virtual machines, and delivering high-quality products to maximize CIQ’s capability to scale
- A deep familiarity with Cloud and Cloud-Native Principles
- Strong ability to work with cross-functional teams to implement and optimize cloud marketplace integrations
- The ability to troubleshoot and improve applications and processes, analyze current code and industry developments, and develop engineering solutions to solve problems
- Proficiency in managing and maintaining compute environments, including virtualization and containerization
- A friendly, collaborative, humble, honest, and always striving-to-be-better attitude
- Deep-seated need to replace the world with scripts
- Curiosity and an eagerness to learn
- BS/BA in Computer Science or related
- 5+ years of relevant work experience in AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Direct hands-on experience leading the design, development, and deployment of cloud solutions at scale, or current hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience
What the job involves
- The Sr Automation and Release Engineer will play an instrumental role in bringing CIQ’s Linux automation infrastructure to the next level
- As an Automation and Release Engineer, you will work closely with CIQ’s Engineering and Operations teams to architect, implement, and maintain automation, build, and test tooling for everything from Linux packages to entire operating system images for use in on-prem, cloud, and high-performance computing environments
- Provide subject matter expertise on automation and build tooling
- Contributing or participating in architecture-level discussions, planning, and implementation
- Research to ensure that what we are building is always the best path forward
- Document each project to share knowledge and facilitate cross-training
- Develop proof of concepts and minimal viable products for demonstration
- Design and implement test automation for everything from software packages to the operating system
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to support product deliverables and business objectives
- Identify opportunities to optimize performance and reduce costs across the infrastructure landscape
Our take
Development of the Community Enterprise Linux Operating System (CentOS) was dropped by IBM’s RedHat in just 2020, leaving a gaping hole in the market. When CIQ’s founders swept in to offer a replacement, Rocky Linux, and a complementary support and servicing company CIQ, the demand reportedly skyrocketed - and, according to CIQ, it hasn’t subsided since.
That’s because the old CentOS was one of the principal OSs used by enterprise, cloud, VMs, and containers - Google, for example, was among one of its many enterprise users. Now Google has picked up Rocky Linux, and CIQ has consequently scooped up that major partnership too - and some healthy funding. It’s a fitting reward for a highly savvy play from the CIQ founders, picking up a tried-and-tested product that’s already achieved strong market penetration.
Besides Rocky Linux, CIQ has also developed cluster provisioning solution Warewulf, high performance computing (HPC) app containers tool Apptainer, and hybrid performance computing platform-as-a-Service Fuzzball. So it’s safe to say that CIQ has managed to skilfully manoeuvre its way into a pivotal position in the development of cutting edge high performance computing architecture. Now it will need to ensure it can capitalize on its lead.
Kirsty
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Insights
56% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2022
$26m
SERIES A
Jan 2021
$4m
SERIES A
Total funding: $30m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, vision insurance (80% employer/20% employee)
- Flexible paid time off
- Employee stock options
- Remote work, no required travel for most positions
Company HQ
North Valleys, Reno, NV
Leadership
Gregory Kurtzer
(Co-Founder & CEO)Spent over 16 years as a System Architect, Technical Lead, and Scientific Advisor at Berkeley Lab, before moving into a Corporate Advisor role at RStor. Alongside this, also founded and served as CEO at Sylabs.
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