DevOps, Lead (US based candidates only)

Location: Austin,Texas,United States

Zeitview (formerly DroneBase) is the leading intelligent aerial imaging company for high-value infrastructure, providing businesses with actionable, real-time insights through a single-source solution to recover revenue and reduce liability risk. Zeitview is the trusted, go-to data management platform for worldwide enterprise clients spanning industries such as renewable energy, insurance, telecommunications, construction, real estate, and critical infrastructure. 

In this exciting opportunity as a DevOps Lead, you will be working closely with multiple development teams catering for their needs. There is a range of tech stacks to support. From ML pipelines to Mobile Data Capture to several web development teams. Your team will support them all. Zeitview is in the process of migrating infrastructure from heroku to AWS from GCP/Heroku. You will be key to steering this with minimal disruption to Zeitview’s fast paced development roadmap. Our DevOps team is relatively new for the company and have a lot to work on to get us building consistently. From the get go you will need to focus on:

• Security and Compliance

• Ensure Zeitview follows best practices across the company. SOC Compliance and ISO audits are on the horizon 

• Site Reliability

• Observability tools enabling us stay on top of issues and meet our uptime KPIs and SLA policies

• Company wide Support

• Respond to developers' needs, building tools that make their lives easier. We need to enable faster delivery, not block it. 

• Cost effectiveness

• Design architecture that uses appropriate compute resources. Zeitview is rapidly growing, our tech costs grow with it. 

You must have a proven track record of success and excel in a fast-growing, technology-based startup culture while working autonomously. We offer a competitive salary based on experience and performance, and a generous equity stake for the right candidate. We provide a comprehensive medical, vision, & dental plan, unlimited paid time off, and a great team environment with room for advancement.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze current systems and processes to assess ways to improve them
• Develop a clear compelling vision on how the devops team will assist Zeitview’s SDLC
• Make certain Zeitview’s software meets security and compliance certification standards
• Ensure Zeitivew’s infrastructure can reliably scale through automation
• Build out observability tools to monitor strain and enable effective utilization
• Work closely with multiple development teams solving a variety of technical challenges
• Diagnose and prioritize support requests from multiple channels of communication
• Plan, document and publish devops roadmaps for coordination with other teams
• Drive OKRs and KPIs within DevOps and report outcomes to senior Technical Management

Required Qualifications:

• Devops lead in a previous role (2+ years)
• Experience writing IaC (3+ years)
• Devops and/or Software Developer experience (7+ years)
• Well versed in the AWS Suite of tools ECS/Ec2/Lambda/S3/Batch/EKS
• Working experience with databases (PostgreSQL or similar)
• Experience of efficiently collaborating with multidisciplinary teams
• Well-versed with scrum or other agile product development methodologies.
• Self-starter, multi-tasker, effective communicator, and motivator that brings out the best in people.
• Proven track record of delivering robust, on-time, quality solutions within project constraints.
• Driven to succeed: You go above and beyond. You make educated, logical decisions but also know there’s a time for trusting your intuition, vision, and heart.
• High level of interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence with the ability to work independently and as a team player while presenting a professional demeanor.
• Only candidates based in the US apply

Preferred Qualifications:

• Terraform 
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• PostgresQL
• Elastic Search
• ML/Computer Vision experience

Bonus Experience/Qualifications:

• Metaflow
• Karpenter
• Python
• Java
• Ruby
• Heroku
• Azure

Benefits:

• Work with the leading intelligent aerial imaging company with established, successful relationships across myriad industries
• Medical insurance covered up to 100% depending the plan chosen
• Dental & vision insurance
• Flexible time off
• Stock incentive program
• Work from home environment
• Autonomy and upward mobility
• Diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture, where your voice matters