Contractor DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps Engineer, you will collaborate with our NGO and academic partners to develop and support EarthRanger used in the world of Wildlife Conservation. Working on this team, you can be on the ground floor in designing, building, and deploying cutting-edge products that will have a global impact. The right candidate will work closely with multiple development teams and external partners to strategize and design solutions to difficult problems. 

About EarthRanger

EarthRanger is a software solution that helps conservationists make informed operational decisions. We help prevent the poaching of endangered species, fight deforestation, promote human-wildlife coexistence, and advocate for legal protection of wildlife on land or in the oceans. We do this by integrating real-time data from 100+ hardware sensors (animal trackers, radios, vehicles, etc…), rangers, patrols, remote imaging, and providing visibility and analysis of conservation activities across landscapes and seascapes. More than 350 conservation organizations use EarthRanger today, from iconic national parks like Masai Mara Reserve in Kenya and North Luangwa National Park in Zambia, to species-specific conservation programs like the study of white sharks in New Zealand and Panthera’s Mountain Lion Program in Washington state.  

You will collaborate with our users, NGOs, and academic partners to understand, design and deliver functionality to aid in wildlife conservation. In this role, you will support the configuration, deployment and operation of the EarthRanger platform as we scale to hosting tens of thousands conservation sites and programs. The right candidate will be confident in the use of the latest tools and best practices. ER is a global platform, and this role requires the candidate to support operations near the GMT timezone.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with product teams to co-write deployment of their applications into GCP using best practices.
• Work closely with the product teams to provide the foundational services and infrastructure that support their applications.
• Ensure uptime of our applications, provide operational metrics, dashboards and alerts
• Constant learning and adapting to changes and improvements in the platform, components, and security of our systems
• Participate in agile software development practices
• Apply problem-solving skills and the abilities to analyze quantitatively, scope technical requirements, and effectively prioritize program deliverables
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments

Qualifications

• Experience developing software using open-source tools and environments.
• Expertise using Python to build production-use deployment automation, applications and services.
• Experience building and deploying SaaS applications at scale, web frameworks (Django, FastAPI, Spring), major data storage software (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, etc.)
• Professional experience securing software (APIs, databases, file storage, user information).
• Experience delivering solutions using cloud providers (GCP)
• Experience using containers to build and deploy services (Docker, Kubernetes), supporting systems built on linux.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools for automating builds and deployments (Github Actions, Cloud Build, Helm)
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform)
• Established track record of delivering complex software solutions to delight customers

 Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• A minimum of 8 years of software development experience