DevOps Engineer

About Digital Harbor

Digital Harbor has been a pioneering innovator of Composite Risk & Compliance solutions for over a decade. Our award-winning platform is trusted by some of the largest U.S. Financial Institutions, Government Intelligence Agencies, and Healthcare organizations.

Currently, Digital Harbor is driving the integration of Web 3.0 into enterprise solutions through its Social Enterprise Technology (SET) platform. We are seeking creative and innovative engineers who are passionate about building scalable cloud platforms and enabling modern software development.

Location: Hybrid (Remote In-Office)

Office Location:

Lehi, UT 84043

Job Description

As a DevOps Engineer at Digital Harbor, you will play a critical role in building, automating, and scaling the cloud platform that powers our SaaS products. You will work shoulder-to-shoulder with software engineers to improve developer productivity, automate software delivery, and build reliable, secure infrastructure that enables rapid product innovation.

This role is ideal for someone who began their career as a Software Engineer or Software Developer and transitioned into DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering. You understand modern software development because you've built software yourself and now enjoy improving how software is delivered at scale.

Your primary objective will be to build world-class cloud infrastructure and developer platforms that empower engineering teams to rapidly deliver secure, scalable enterprise software.

Ideal Candidate Background

The strongest candidates will typically have career paths similar to:

• Software Engineer → DevOps Engineer
• Software Engineer → Platform Engineer
• Backend Engineer → DevOps Engineer
• Full Stack Engineer → DevOps Engineer

We're seeking someone who understands software development from firsthand experience and enjoys building platforms, automation, and developer tooling that enable engineering teams to move faster.

Experience working within a software product company or SaaS organization is strongly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, automate, and deploy application code through modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Design, provision, and maintain scalable AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Build and maintain developer platforms that improve engineering productivity and deployment reliability.
• Design and optimize Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) environments.
• Automate cloud infrastructure and operational processes using Infrastructure as Code.
• Partner daily with Software Engineers, QA Engineers, Product teams, and Architects to improve developer experience and software delivery.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to application availability, scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Support modern microservices-based architectures, container orchestration, and cloud-native applications.
• Contribute to software development initiatives using technologies such as Java/Spring Boot and JavaScript/Node.js.
• Research emerging technologies, build proof-of-concept solutions, and recommend improvements to engineering platforms.

Required Qualifications

Experience

• Professional experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or similar software-focused engineering role before transitioning into DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering strongly preferred.
• 3 years of DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE experience supporting modern software delivery.
• Experience working within a software product company or SaaS organization strongly preferred.
• Experience partnering closely with software engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ownership of engineering platforms, automation, and cloud infrastructure.

AWS & Cloud Technologies

• Strong experience with AWS services including ECS, EC2, S3, CloudFront, IAM, VPC, and related cloud technologies.
• Experience designing and supporting highly available, multi-tier cloud architectures.
• Experience automating cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.

Programming & Development

• Strong software development experience using Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, or similar programming languages.
• Comfortable reading, debugging, and contributing application code when necessary.
• Experience using Git-based workflows within CI/CD environments.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, distributed systems, and microservices architectures.
• Experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes.

Infrastructure & Databases

• Knowledge of Linux system administration.
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch and Redis.
• Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience supporting highly available cloud-native infrastructure.

Methodologies & Collaboration

• Experience working within Agile software development environments.
• Experience collaborating with distributed engineering teams.
• Familiarity with Jira and modern engineering collaboration tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable working in a remote-first engineering organization.

Engineering Mindset

• Builder mentality with strong ownership of engineering outcomes.
• Passion for improving developer productivity through automation.
• Comfortable contributing code, automation, and infrastructure improvements.
• Continuously seeks opportunities to simplify engineering workflows.
• Bias toward automation over manual processes.
• Leads by example as a highly collaborative individual contributor.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD technologies such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Previous experience working for a software product company or SaaS organization.
• Experience supporting engineering organizations building commercial software products.
• Experience building developer platforms or internal engineering tooling.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related technical field preferred.

Why Join Digital Harbor?

At Digital Harbor, DevOps is an engineering discipline, not simply infrastructure management. You'll help shape the platform that enables our engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable SaaS products while working alongside experienced software engineers in a highly collaborative environment.

If you enjoy solving engineering problems through automation, cloud technologies, and platform design, you'll have the opportunity to make a significant impact on products used by some of the world's most demanding organizations.

Digital Harbor is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination. Reasonable accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.