Overview

What We Do

We calm the confusion of IT by guiding the connection between people and technology. If a customer is looking for a better way to manage their warehouse inventory, equip their workforce, or secure their data, we make it happen. All it takes is finding the right combination of tech hardware, software, cloud solutions, and support services. That’s what we do. We’re the IT Department’s IT Department.

Who We Are

Our team is made stronger by a multitude of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. It’s what makes Connection unique—what drives us to innovate and create technology solutions that stand apart from the crowd. We’d love for you to be a part of that fabric, to share your ideas and experiences with a team that thrives on fresh thinking, creativity, and helping others.

Why You Should Join Us

You’ll find supportive teammates and a rewarding career at Connection—plus great benefits. We take pride in supporting employees with a total rewards package that provides financial, emotional, and physical resources for you and your family. Our compensation, 401k plans, medical insurance, and other benefits are progressive and competitive. We value the importance of our employees’ emotional wellbeing. To support employees, we provide free therapy visits, mental health coaching and tools, and meditation resources. You’ll also enjoy a generous paid time off package that includes not only vacation and sick time, but also Wellness and Volunteer Time Off days. 

Responsibilities

Working under guidance from the Platform Engineering Manager, the Sr Development Operations (DevOps) Engineer is focused on the iterative development of Connection's workflows through automation. These workflows touch every step of the SDLC and are the mission critical objective of this team to maintain. As a member of the Platform Engineering Team, the Sr DevOps Engineer strives towards developing modular components that enable reuse and extension for future projects. This role requires fundamental proficiency with IT change management, virtual infrastructure, operating systems, application development, deployment, orchestration, monitoring, and testing. The Sr DevOps Engineer is responsible for writing infrastructure, policy, and application deployment code that adheres to clean coding standards and results in products that meet their availability targets with little to no manual intervention. The Sr DevOps Engineer comfortably provides frequent communication, demonstrations, and collaboration with developers, operations, information security personnel, project managers, and others.

Job Duties: 

•Architects infrastructure & application deployment solutions•Develops infrastructure code for both public cloud-based and hypervisor-based solutions•Develops application build, package, configure, and deployment code•Develops policy code to enforce industry standard and Connection-specific best practices•Performs R&D and implements pilot programs for new technologies•Consults with other teams to onboard new applications, products, and solutions to the platform•Contributes to the standards required of applications moving to the platform•Bakes security and governance best practices into all of the above•Guides junior team members on all of the above•Performs other duties and completes special projects as assigned.

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Qualifications

•Infrastructure Fundamentals (VMs, load balancing, firewalls, databases; compute, memory, storage)•Operating System Fundamentals (Linux heavily preferred)•Web Fundamentals (DNS, IP, HTTP, REST)•Public Cloud Fundamentals (AWS, Azure, or GCP)•Git & Branching/Code Promotion workflows•OOP development in any language (API development a plus)•Shell scripting (bash preferred; powershell/etc acceptable)•Infrastructure as Code (Terraform heavily preferred)•Configuration management (Ansible preferred; chef/puppet acceptable)•Ticket Systems & IT Change Management Processes (JIRA preferred; others acceptable)•Containers (Familiarity with Docker/podman, image registries, K8s resources, and pod networking)•Orchestration/Deployment Systems (Jenkins, k8s, helm, nomad, etc)•Pipelines as Code (Jenkins, Github, Bitbucket, etc)Because of the possibility for fraudulent job postings on many popular job boards, please be advised that Connection will never offer a position of employment without a complete interview process and communication with a “live person".