DevOps Engineer | DBA

Department: Technology

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Denver Headquarters

Compensation: $98,000 - $134,000 / year

Description

Project Canary is a climate technology company offering an enterprise data platform that helps energy companies improve and report on their emissions footprint. Project Canary builds high-fidelity sensors, ingests data from various other technologies and sources, and leverages proprietary analytics and models to deliver insights that operators can act on to reduce emissions. The data-driven technology enables energy operators to stop leaks faster, reduce risk, streamline reporting, and differentiate their operations for key stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS
• Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
• Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure defined as code
• Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
• Administer and troubleshoot Linux based systems
• Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
• Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS infrastructure and systems
• Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Education and experience:

• 5 years experience with deployment and administration of PostgreSQL databases in distributed systems
• At least 2-3 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (ECS/Fargate, EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch)
• Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements
• Experience with Python, Ansible, and deploying applications on AWS in a Linux environment
• Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools
• Strong bias for action and ownership

Nice to haves:

• Previous startup experience would be a huge plus
• Latent desire and/or curiosity in related domain like software development, front-end engineering, security or project management
• Experience with AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Templates or Terraform
• Experience with TimescaleDB and PgBouncer
• Experience with New Relic
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Benefits

• Salary range: $ annual base
• Hybrid work environment (at least 3 days/week in Denver office)
• Health, dental, and vision insurance with low deductibles and premiums paid by company 99% for self and 50% for dependents and/or spouse
• 401K with company match (no vesting period)
• Opportunity for equity ownership
• Student loan assistance
• Generous PTO
• 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave (gender neutral) including adoptions
• Flex Choice Monthly Stipend - choice between parking, public transportation, or wellness assistance
• Dog friendly office environment