DevOps Engineer

ALKU is transforming the staffing industry by being an automation-first, data-driven company where innovation and technology pave the way forward. Our directive is to build high impact internal applications, interfaces, and integrations to automate processes, optimize workflows, and solve a wide variety of business problems. We are looking for a DevOps engineer who is passionate about building business critical tools to automate away the mundane and inefficient and to enable ALKU’s application ecosystem to scale and grow.

Duties/Responsibilities:

As a DevOps Engineer you will work closely with a team of Product Owners, Software Engineers, and admins in a fast-paced and agile development environment. You will apply a software-development mindset to solving real business problems together with your team. You will do this by designing, implementing, improving, and maintaining our infrastructure and tools necessary for our development, testing, and deployment processes. You will be a key contributor in design decisions on our technical architecture, placing an emphasis on scalability, reliability, and security.

ALKU Engineering is a new addition to ALKU and is critical to achieving our strategic goals. We plan to promptly grow the team and the impact of our internal ecosystem of custom applications. We are looking for engineers who are comfortable working in ‘startup-like’ environment and acting as primary contributors to our development efforts, our team culture, and our operating methodologies.

Responsibilities include:

Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines

Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure on the AWS Platform

Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions

Collaborate with Developers to improve test coverage and deployment practices

Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to infrastructure, deployments, and performance

Optimize our spend on the AWS Platform

Implement and improve security measures and practices related to our internal applications

Required Skills/Abilities:

2+ years of experience with any combination of scripting/programming languages (JavaScript/TypeScript, Node, Python)

2+ years deploying distributed apps & orchestration

2+ years development experience in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

2+ years demonstrated ability working within and building on AWS

Experience deploying with a CI orchestration service

Experience with TCP/IP networking protocols and components as implemented in IAAS

Experience with Log Management and Analytics tools

Experience with PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL or MySQL server

Experience working with serverless applications

Experience developing security & compliance into pipelines

Experience in any of the monitoring tools like Cloudwatch

** Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time **