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DevOps Engineer

Alarm.com · Tysons Corner, VA · 4 days ago
Engineering$88k–$124k/yrFull-time

About the role

The DevOps Engineer supports, implements, and helps automate enterprise data platforms and messaging infrastructure across hybrid environments. They assist in maintaining the reliability, scalability, performance, and operational health of platforms such as Kafka/Confluent, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Snowflake, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server. They contribute to Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and deployment automation efforts to improve consistency and efficiency. They partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to follow best practices for provisioning, deployment, monitoring, patching, and lifecycle management. They support platform deployments, migrations, upgrades, and maintenance activities. They help build and maintain observability capabilities including monitoring, alerting, logging, and telemetry. They troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement fixes with guidance where needed. They contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automation practices that improve release quality and operational efficiency. They maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures. They participate in on-call rotation and incident response efforts to support service reliability. They work with security teams to ensure adherence to standards for access management, encryption, and compliance.

Responsibilities

  • Support, implement, and help automate enterprise data platforms and messaging infrastructure across hybrid environments.
  • Assist in maintaining the reliability, scalability, performance, and operational health of platforms such as Kafka/Confluent, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Snowflake, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Contribute to Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and deployment automation efforts to improve consistency and efficiency.
  • Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to follow best practices for provisioning, deployment, monitoring, patching, and lifecycle management.
  • Support platform deployments, migrations, upgrades, and maintenance activities.
  • Help build and maintain observability capabilities including monitoring, alerting, logging, and telemetry.
  • Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement fixes with guidance where needed.
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automation practices that improve release quality and operational efficiency.
  • Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
  • Participate in on-call rotation and incident response efforts to support service reliability.
  • Work with security teams to ensure adherence to standards for access management, encryption, and compliance.

Qualifications

  • 2–5 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Experience with Kubernetes is a plus, particularly with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and deploying or supporting containerized workloads.
  • Experience working with one or more enterprise platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Snowflake, Redis, or relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server).
  • Familiarity with cloud and infrastructure environments such as AWS, Azure, or VMware.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
  • Exposure to containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Working knowledge of Linux systems administration; Windows Server experience is a plus.
  • Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or similar platforms.
  • Exposure to CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar.
  • Basic scripting or programming skills in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred, or equivalent practical experience.

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