DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps Engineer, you will work closely with our Foundation teams to build and run the core components that power Checkr. You will enable all teams to take collective ownership of their software's reliability, scalability, and performance. You will also guide other teams in fine-tuning their services, resulting in improved robustness and efficiency, ensuring that every team can focus on building superior software, backed by a reliable, scalable, and efficient infrastructure. We believe every engineering team at Checkr should be responsible for the software they build, and DevOps plays a critical part in providing the tools, practices, and expertise to make that happen.

What a typical week may look like at Checkr

• Building, maintaining, optimizing, and scaling Checkr’s cloud infrastructure
• Improving infrastructure operations and processes with automation and tooling
• Optimizing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling
• Participating in or leading design reviews and production reviews for new infrastructure services
• Debugging production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Ensuring the scalability and security of Checkr infrastructure
• Partnering with application developers to ensure best practices and efficient use of infrastructure
• Building and fostering collaborative relationships with other engineering teams and leaders
• Plan for the growth of Checkr’s infrastructure

What you’ll bring

• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer or related experience
• Experience driving platform adoption with various product engineering teams, guided by a self-service and product-first approach
• Experience designing technical architecture and creating a strategic roadmap to realize a technical vision
• Expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, IaC, Terraform, Linux, and microservice architecture
• Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP, web application security, and HTTP/HTTPS
• Experience with Istio or other service mesh technologies
• Your rollback plans are just as meticulous as your rollout plans
• An ability, willingness, and desire to mentor and up-level less experienced Infrastructure Engineers
• A passion for customer-centricity and building relationships with other teams
• Unwavering commitment to operational security and best practices
• Recent experience programming in Golang, Python, or Ruby