DevOps Engineer

Thanks for your interest in Oklo! We are searching for a talented DevOps Engineer to join our team.

Position Description

DevOps Engineers at Oklo are self-directed and comfortable interfacing and supporting the infrastructure and automation needs of multiple teams, systems, and products.

Specific responsibilities may include:

DevOps Engineers contribute to many areas of Oklo’s software and infrastructure development, including, but not limited to:

• Interfacing with key stakeholders across different stages of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Designing and implementing automation, build, release, deployment, and configuration tools, workflows, and processes
• Identify areas for improvement including requirements generation, architecture definition, design, and implementation
• Maintain and monitor existing on-prem infrastructure and cloud infrastructure
• Investigate and respond to disruptions of the development tools or infrastructure
• Building tools to audit Oklo code repositories for their compliance with expected QA standards
• Educate users about the development tools and environment
• Develop and maintain user reference, tool and infrastructure configuration documentation

Minimum Qualifications

We think the following are good indicators of qualifications to do this job:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar, or 3+ years of equivalent industry experience required
• Proficiency in CI/CD and software development lifecycle principles, as well as in-depth knowledge of build/release systems, processes, and tools (GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Proficiency in Linux/Unix system administration
• Strong programming/scripting fundamentals (Python/Bash)
• Proficiency in Git, infrastructure-as-code (Ansible/Puppet/Chef, Terraform), and REST-API scripting
• Experience in containerization and cluster management technologies (Docker/Podman and Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of project management tools and Agile Scrum development processes (GitLab Tickets, Jira, Trello)
• A passion for building clean documentation for readers of varying technical depth

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with cloud concepts, specifically AWS Cloud services (VPC, EC2, S3, Route 53, IAM, CloudFormation)
• Familiarity with network terminology/infrastructure (switches, gateways, firewalls, TCP/IP, VLAN, DNS, etc.)
• Experience with modern security standards and tools
• Experience with unit tests, linting/static code analysis tools, integration testing, and code standardization
• Experience with server virtualization technology (VMware, openstack, KVM, qemu)
• Experience in RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL), non-relational (Redis), or web servers (Nginx, Apache)
• Experience with observability tools/platforms (Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, Kinesis)
• Hands-on MacOS knowledge
• Familiarity with artifact repository tools (Artifactory/Nexus)

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