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Principal DevOps Engineer

Remote (US)

About Vizit:
Vizit is at the forefront of visual content intelligence, empowering brands to optimize their online presence through data-driven insights. We are a fast-growing e-commerce company based in Boston, and we are looking for top-tier talent to join our team and help scale our innovative solutions.

Position Overview:
We are seeking a seasoned Principal DevOps Engineer with a strong focus on DevOps to lead our infrastructure initiatives and support our Research & Development team. In this role, you will play a critical part in shaping and executing our cloud strategy, while also implementing robust QA practices. If you have a passion for automation, infrastructure as code, and cloud architecture, and are equally comfortable supporting a QA environment, we want to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of highly scalable, secure, and efficient AWS cloud infrastructure.
  • Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth integration and deployment processes.
  • Implement and maintain automation frameworks and tools for infrastructure provisioning using Python and AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK).
  • Work closely with the R&D department to build test harnesses, and design and implement end-to-end testing strategies.
  • Oversee integration testing and deployment processes, ensuring that new code is reliably released into production.
  • Continuously improve system performance, availability, and scalability.
  • Ensure security best practices are followed, and implement automated monitoring and alerting solutions.
  • Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers on DevOps and QA best practices.

Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of experience in DevOps, with a strong track record of leading cloud infrastructure initiatives.
  • AWS Certification.
  • Expertise in serverless event-driven architecture. Should know how to solve service limits config issues with AWS Lambda and Docker issues.
  • Familiarity managing AWS Organizations.
  • Principal or Staff DevOps Engineer title currently.
  • Amazon EC2 experience managing Lambda, clusters, and VPC.
  • Familiarity with managing complex launch configurations.
  • Experience managing Linux.
  • Proficiency in Python, particularly in automating cloud infrastructure and building deployment pipelines.
  • Experience working with software teams to stand up QA automation.
  • Experience in a big data environment with ETL.
  • Experience supporting R&D teams in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
  • Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

What we offer:

  • Competitive Salary and Stock Options
  • Remote Availability. Most team members are located around Boston, MA so engineers who live outside of Boston generally fly in every 3-6 months to meet up in person!
  • High Stability. We are growing and well-capitalized!
  • Paid Holidays
  • Medical and Dental Insurance, and FSA Healthcare
  • 401K
  • Annual $250 Wellness Allowance
  • Annual $250 Home Office Allowance
  • Endless opportunities to learn and take on new responsibilities in a growing startup

**All candidates must live in the United States. Vizit is not sponsoring work visas for this role.

To apply:
Submit your resume along with the name of the role you are interested in to careers@vizit.com.

Whoever you are and however you identify, if this sounds like a role and a team that you'd be excited to join, we would love to hear from you.

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