Senior DevOps Engineer

At Veriforce, we help companies in high-risk industries keep their people, worksites, and supply chains safe and compliant. As a global leader in contractor and supply chain risk management, our SaaS platform simplifies contractor onboarding, credentialing, and compliance while providing powerful analytics and insights. Beyond software, we offer expert support, training, and consulting so our clients can operate with confidence. Together, we’re making workplaces safer every day.Are you a talented Lead DevOps engineer looking to lead the design, delivery, and operation of developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code? You will be a key member of the Veriforce software development team, working to deploy, monitor, and operate our software across key production systems that serve tens of thousands of customers. Your work will have a strong impact on user experience, customer satisfaction, and company growth. We work in an agile environment utilizing modern tools such as AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and Kafka. The ideal candidate will be experienced, organized, positive, driven, and a team player.

What that means day-to-day:

• Manage and mentor a team of DevOps engineers; run standups, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.
• Provide technical thought leadership in collaboration with Architecture, SecOps, Data Engineering, and Development
• Partner with developers and product teams to capture tooling, automation, and infrastructure requirements; translate needs into actionable stories and designs.
• Design, implement, and maintain continuous delivery systems and advise development teams on code and implementation to increase application resiliency, operability, and best practices
• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure as code for both development and production environments with a focus on Kubernetes and Kafka.
• Design, implement and maintain observability and monitoring solutions and monitor the system health, taking action to maintain up-time and performance SLAs

What you’ll need to be successful:

• 7+ years of relevant experience in Dev Ops in a SaaS environment
• Expertise in distributed systems including container orchestration, distributed messaging, and distributed databases with an emphasis on Kubernetes and Kafka
• Expertise in cloud platforms, primarily AWS, and infrastructure-as-code languages, with a focus on Terraform and Ansible.
• Expertise in automated deployment methodologies, especially Jenkins and GitHub Actions
• Prior professional application development experience with a particular focus on SaaS applications and web development
• Knowledge of software engineering and design principles such as design patterns, architectural patterns, CAP Theorem, event driven architecture, and similar
• Must be security-minded at all levels

Nice to have:

• Experience with NGINX, networking, and security
• Experience with NoSQL and/or "Big Data" technologies
• Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL
• Experience with C# and .NETCore

What you’ll get in return:

Here are just a few of the great reasons to join our team!

• Work with a global team! We have colleagues and customers across North America and around the world.
• Veriforce is a great place to work! Our leaders and team members consistently cite our culture as one of the top reasons it’s a great place to build a career.
• Veriforce provides
  • 100% employer-paid medical and dental insurance for employees
  • Monthly contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • A 401(k) match that is immediately fully vested
  • Outstanding time off benefits
  • Paid time off for volunteer activities
  • Remote work opportunities

All job offers will be contingent on the successful completion of a background check.

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