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Avant · 3 days ago
Principal DevOps Engineer
Greater Chicago Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
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Responsibilities
Design, develop, and deploy infrastructure solutions using modern cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud Platform).
Implement automation and orchestration tools to streamline provisioning, deployment, and management of infrastructure and services.
Collaborate with software engineering teams to design scalable and resilient architectures for applications/services.
Monitor and troubleshoot platform performance issues, ensuring high availability and optimal resource utilization.
Continuously optimize infrastructure and processes to improve reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
Stay updated on industry trends and best practices in platform engineering, incorporating new technologies and methodologies as appropriate.
Qualification
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Required
Strong development experience in a modern programming language: E.g., Python, Ruby, Go, or Bash.
Proven experience in platform engineering or a related role, with a strong understanding of cloud computing concepts and technologies.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Experience creating and working with containers and leveraging container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and technologies such as Karpenter, KEDA.
Experience building and managing highly available public cloud infrastructure and services.
Experience with standard infrastructure-as-code provisioning and configuration management tools.
Experience supporting relational and non-relational databases, messages busses, caching services, and other data persistence tools.
Experience developing CI/CD workflows, GitHub Actions.
Experience with migrating services and workflows to new platforms
Familiarity with standard monitoring, logging, and observability platforms, we use Datadog, Sentry.
Familiarity with Amazon Web Services, Terraform, Helm, Vault, Ansible, Spacelift
Solid understanding of networking concepts, security best practices, and containerization technologies.
Preferred
Experience with Databricks for data engineering and analytics tasks.
Familiarity with Airflow for orchestrating complex data workflows.
Benefits
Choice of great Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Plan options
401(k) Match
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Flexible Work Environment
Generous Paid Parental Leave
Lunch Allowance (Fooda) and In-office Snacks
WFH Stipends for our Remote Employees
Access to LinkedIn Learning for Professional Development
No Meeting Wednesdays - (a.k.a. planned time to Get Sh!t Done)
Summer Fridays
Fun In-Office and Virtual Social Events
And who doesn’t love the swag
Company
Avant
Avant is an online lending platform that offers alternatives to its clients with safe financial products.
Founded in 2012
501-1,000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2023 (49)
2022 (53)
2021 (65)
2020 (78)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$2.08BKey Investors
Ares ManagementWebBankPamlico Capital
2022-12-07Private Equity· Undisclosed
2022-12-07Debt Financing· $250M
2022-07-14Debt Financing· $250M
Leadership Team
James Paris
CEO
Paul Zhang
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
2024-04-11
2024-04-10
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