About the RoleWe are growing our Core Engineering (DevOps) team to meet the challenges of a rapidly growing and changing SaaS company. We are looking to expand our capability to maintain, optimize and evolve our AWS-based cloud operations for our SaaS products.Our mission is to maintain rock-solid stability and reliability for our customers while making development and management of the environment as easy as possible for our colleagues at Validity. We aspire to follow the SRE/DevOps methodologies and best practices of distinguished tech industry leaders while making the appropriate choices for our organization’s scale. We are looking for an experienced engineer who is confident with cloud infrastructure and code pipelines. In addition to becoming deeply familiar with core tools and technology, they will need to build broader familiarity with a wider set of technologies in the environment. We expect them to own projects and help guide the evolution of our platforms. Team DynamicWe support a complex environment that has grown rapidly through mergers and acquisitions. We host applications written in-house, purchased commercially, and from the open-source community. No two days are the same here. This gives our team the opportunity to develop great hands-on experience with many exciting technologies such as Linux, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes. Position Duties and Responsibilities<ul>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Maintain and optimize our AWS cloud footprint, Kubernetes clusters, SaaS accounts, CI/CD systems, and other platforms. Focus on resiliency, scalability, maintainability, security, and cost.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Empower our colleagues on software development teams to use the above services effectively by providing support and documentation.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation. Provide critical support towards the unplanned work needs of the organization. Triage incidents effectively.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Research/develop/deploy creative (but practical) technical solutions to our problems. Use the tools available to us to save the company time and money.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Take ownership of longer-term projects. Share your experience and perspective with the Core Engineering team to guide major architectural decisions.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Provide subject matter expertise in the DevOps niche we fill in the organization. Collaborate with business application development, DBA, QA, SecOps, corporate IT, and customer-facing services teams as needed. Steer organization towards best practices.</li>
</ul> Required Experience, Skills, and Education<ul>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">A passionate engineer with 4+ years of experience in open-source system administration/operations and software development lifecycle in a public cloud-hosted environment.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Post-secondary degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Management of Information Systems, etc., OR demonstrated equivalent practical experience in the industry</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">First-hand experience designing, building, and operating platforms for containerized microservices applications. Understands key challenges in this space. (Most of our production software runs in Docker on Kubernetes.)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Expertise with infrastructure as code and configuration management systems (Terraform/Cloudformation/Ansible etc.).</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, modern SDLC (GitHub, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Expert Linux system administration skills and understands TCP/IP networking and security</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Proficient in scripting languages (Bash/Python) and data structures (YAML, JSON, XML, etc.) in the context of templating and automation.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Experience implementing and using monitoring/tracing/alerting/observability tools. (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, PagerDuty, etc.)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Excellent troubleshooting skills with a “detective” mindset. Does not give up on a problem, exhausts all effort and resources to resolve a difficult technical problem. Comfortable operating in a very complex technical environment.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Validity and the Core Engineering team are distributed across the world. Remote work skills will be critical for this position for the foreseeable future.</li>
</ul> Preferred Experience, Skills, and Education<ul>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Relevant certifications in DevOps/SRE, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Security, Networking, etc.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Advanced programming skill in languages like Go, Python, Ruby, Java</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Experience working in Agile/SCRUM/Kanban project management environment</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Database administration/analyst skills (transactional and/or “no-sql”) skills (Postgres, Mysql, Kafka, Etcd, Zookeeper, Clickhouse, Snowflake)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Information security/SecOps skills or experience. (PKI, SSL/TLS, secrets management experience)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Experience with auditing/compliance/regulated environments (SOC2, PCI, HIPAA, etc)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Understanding of email deliverability concepts (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, public IP management)</li>
</ul> Benefits<ul>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Medical</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Dental</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Vision</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Paid Holidays</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Unlimited PTO</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Parental Leave</li>
</ul> Pay Range: $120,000&nbsp;- $150,000 base, plus up to 10% bonus opportunity, and stock options.Final salary may vary depending on skills, location, and/or experience. This position can be in office/remote, hiring in the following states only:AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA About ValidityFor over 20 years, tens of thousands of organizations across the world have relied on Validity solutions to target, contact, engage, and retain customers – using trustworthy data as a key advantage. Validity’s flagship products – <a href="https://www.validity.com/products/demandtools/">DemandTools</a>, <a href="https://www.validity.com/products/briteverify/">BriteVerify</a>, <a href="https://www.validity.com/products/returnpath/">Return Path</a>, <a href="https://www.validity.com/products/trustassessments/">Trust Assessments</a>, and <a href="https://www.validity.com/products/gridbuddy/">GridBuddy </a>– are all highly rated, #1 solutions for sales and marketing professionals. These solutions deliver smarter email campaigns, more qualified leads, more productive sales, and ultimately faster growth. Validity is a truly unique company - massive revenue growth, top-tier investors, 5-star product ratings, proven ability to acquire and integrate top tech companies and welcome them into the Validity family, winning culture, and a work environment that fosters hard work, trust, and fun.Headquartered in Boston, Validity has offices in Tampa, Denver, Indianapolis, London, and Sydney. For more information, visit connect with us on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/validityinc/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/trustvalidity/">Instagram, </a>and <a href="https://twitter.com/TrustValidity">Twitter</a>.

**About the Role**

We are growing our Core Engineering (DevOps) team to meet the challenges of a
rapidly growing and changing SaaS company. We are looking to expand our
capability to maintain, optimize and evolve our AWS-based cloud operations for
our SaaS products.

Our mission is to maintain rock-solid stability and reliability for our
customers while making development and management of the environment as easy
as possible for our colleagues at Validity. We aspire to follow the SRE/DevOps
methodologies and best practices of distinguished tech industry leaders while
making the appropriate choices for our organization’s scale.

  

We are looking for an experienced engineer who is confident with cloud
infrastructure and code pipelines. In addition to becoming deeply familiar
with core tools and technology, they will need to build broader familiarity
with a wider set of technologies in the environment. We expect them to own
projects and help guide the evolution of our platforms.

 ****  

 **Team Dynamic**

We support a complex environment that has grown rapidly through mergers and
acquisitions. We host applications written in-house, purchased commercially,
and from the open-source community. No two days are the same here. This gives
our team the opportunity to develop great hands-on experience with many
exciting technologies such as Linux, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.

 ****  

 **Position Duties and Responsibilities**

  * Maintain and optimize our AWS cloud footprint, Kubernetes clusters, SaaS accounts, CI/CD systems, and other platforms. Focus on resiliency, scalability, maintainability, security, and cost.
  * Empower our colleagues on software development teams to use the above services effectively by providing support and documentation.
  * Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation. Provide critical support towards the unplanned work needs of the organization. Triage incidents effectively.
  * Research/develop/deploy creative (but practical) technical solutions to our problems. Use the tools available to us to save the company time and money.
  * Take ownership of longer-term projects. Share your experience and perspective with the Core Engineering team to guide major architectural decisions.
  * Provide subject matter expertise in the DevOps niche we fill in the organization. Collaborate with business application development, DBA, QA, SecOps, corporate IT, and customer-facing services teams as needed. Steer organization towards best practices.

****  

**Required Experience, Skills, and Education**

  * A passionate engineer with 4+ years of experience in open-source system administration/operations and software development lifecycle in a public cloud-hosted environment.
  * Post-secondary degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Management of Information Systems, etc., OR demonstrated equivalent practical experience in the industry
  * First-hand experience designing, building, and operating platforms for containerized microservices applications. Understands key challenges in this space. (Most of our production software runs in Docker on Kubernetes.)
  * Expertise with infrastructure as code and configuration management systems (Terraform/Cloudformation/Ansible etc.).
  * Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, modern SDLC (GitHub, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)
  * Expert Linux system administration skills and understands TCP/IP networking and security
  * Proficient in scripting languages (Bash/Python) and data structures (YAML, JSON, XML, etc.) in the context of templating and automation.
  * Experience implementing and using monitoring/tracing/alerting/observability tools. (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, PagerDuty, etc.)
  * Excellent troubleshooting skills with a “detective” mindset. Does not give up on a problem, exhausts all effort and resources to resolve a difficult technical problem. Comfortable operating in a very complex technical environment.
  * Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Validity and the Core Engineering team are distributed across the world. Remote work skills will be critical for this position for the foreseeable future.

****  

**Preferred Experience, Skills, and Education**

  * Relevant certifications in DevOps/SRE, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Security, Networking, etc.
  * Advanced programming skill in languages like Go, Python, Ruby, Java
  * Experience working in Agile/SCRUM/Kanban project management environment
  * Database administration/analyst skills (transactional and/or “no-sql”) skills (Postgres, Mysql, Kafka, Etcd, Zookeeper, Clickhouse, Snowflake)
  * Information security/SecOps skills or experience. (PKI, SSL/TLS, secrets management experience)
  * Experience with auditing/compliance/regulated environments (SOC2, PCI, HIPAA, etc)
  * Understanding of email deliverability concepts (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, public IP management)

****  

**Benefits**

  * Medical
  * Dental
  * Vision
  * Paid Holidays
  * Unlimited PTO
  * Parental Leave

****  

**Pay Range: $120,000  \- $150,000 base, plus up to 10% bonus opportunity, and
stock options.**

Final salary may vary depending on skills, location, and/or experience.

 ****  

 **This position can be in office/remote, hiring in the following states
only:**

AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO,
NC, NE, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA

 ****  

 **About Validity**

For over 20 years, tens of thousands of organizations across the world have
relied on Validity solutions to target, contact, engage, and retain customers
– using trustworthy data as a key advantage. Validity’s flagship products –
[DemandTools](https://www.validity.com/products/demandtools/),
[BriteVerify](https://www.validity.com/products/briteverify/), [Return
Path](https://www.validity.com/products/returnpath/), [Trust
Assessments](https://www.validity.com/products/trustassessments/), and
[GridBuddy ](https://www.validity.com/products/gridbuddy/)– are all highly
rated, #1 solutions for sales and marketing professionals. These solutions
deliver smarter email campaigns, more qualified leads, more productive sales,
and ultimately faster growth.

  

Validity is a truly unique company - massive revenue growth, top-tier
investors, 5-star product ratings, proven ability to acquire and integrate top
tech companies and welcome them into the Validity family, winning culture, and
a work environment that fosters hard work, trust, and fun.

Headquartered in Boston, Validity has offices in Tampa, Denver, Indianapolis,
London, and Sydney. For more information, visit connect with us on
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/validityinc/), [Instagram,
](https://www.instagram.com/trustvalidity/)and
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/TrustValidity).

