DevOps Engineer - Contract

Job Description

We’re open to remote candidates located within +/- 4 hours PT.

At MetaLab, we design, build and ship some of the world’s most beloved products. Founders at early-stage startups hire us to help build businesses from scratch. Leaders at global enterprises hire us to explore new technologies and launch new products.

We are seeking seasoned DevOps Engineers to work with our broader engineering team to configure, control, monitor, and scale our deployment pipeline and cloud infrastructure across multiple regions globally. We have a talented team of engineers that are passionate about delivering high quality products and user experience and the DevOps role directly enables and supports their work.

Your responsibilities

• Work closely with our engineering team to implement our build and deployment pipeline and stand up multi-regional cloud infrastructure
• Leverage Terraform to codify all of our infrastructure and configuration and use to provide resources to our engineering team and assist with the promotion of releases
• Develop and implement application, service, and infrastructure monitoring tools and create metrics, alerts, and dashboards for proactive monitoring and incident response
• Manage secrets and parameters that will be used across the end to end application and infrastructure solution
• Work with the team to identify areas for improvement within our cloud architecture

The must-have short list

• 5+ years of experience in cloud-based systems
• Strong computer science fundamentals: networking, databases, and distributed systems
• Experience with AWS
• Fluent in at least one language: NodeJS, Python, or Ruby
• Experience with Infrastructure As Code (ideally Terraform)
• Experience with logging, monitoring and alerting systems and tools (Cloudwatch, Sentry, PagerDuty)
• Good understanding of information security best practices
• Enjoy solving problems and working collaboratively with engineering and product teams

Nice to Haves

• Certifications in AWS, solution architecture, and/or Linux
• Proficient using command line tools in a *nix environment
• Experience with agile development methodologies
• Experience managing multi-tenanted cloud SaaS applications

Equal opportunity employer

Research shows that women and other marginalized groups tend to only apply for a job when they meet every single criteria. Does this role sound like it was made for you, yet you don’t check every box? Reach out anyways! We’re an equal opportunity employer and are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment for employees from all walks of life. We hire based on talent, and we’re proud of our global perspective.