Senior DevOps Engineer

Key Skills

AWS, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Data Architecture, Data pipelines, DevOps, Linux Operating system, Terraform

Job Description

Role Description

We are Basepaws, a pet genetics company that was recently acquired by Zoetis. We empower pet parents and healthcare teams to deliver personalized pet care like never before. Our cat DNA test is the market's first consumer test for felines. We work very closely with researchers, universities, and vetåerinarians to continue driving innovation in precision care for pets. The Basepaws team focuses on the use of high throughput sequencing approaches, computational biology, systems biology, and machine learning to identify novel genetic variants and microbiome characteristics that may influence a pet's health. Our products span genetics, microbiome, nutrition, and therapeutic applications.

Basepaws is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Technology team. This is a US-based role only.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for our system’s infrastructure and the deployment and health of our product codebase. This highly dynamic position will work with other software engineers, the product team, and, on occasion, other members of the Basepaws organization.

A collaborative work ethic and easy-going nature are a must and extensive experience in similar roles as part of a D2C startup environment is a big plus.

Objectives

• Building and implementing new development tools and infrastructure
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying them to developers
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
• Integration testing and code quality tools and analyzing the results
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cyber threats
• Identifying technical problems and developing updates and fixes
• Working with engineering colleagues to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended

Responsibilities

• Fully document the architecture and processes involved
• Work with the team to build the vision created by the Engineering team with a strong emphasis on building solid, well-documented infrastructure with a focus on the scalability of the overall architecture
• Ensure the infrastructure’s reliability, uptime, security, and performance as needed
• Deploy patches and releases
• Build tools to reduce occurrence of errors and improve customer experience
• Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems
• Provide support to the engineering team on infrastructure issues
• Perform root cause analysis of production errors and resolve technical issues
• Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance

Knowledge and Skills

• 6+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer
• 5+ years of experience with designing, developing, testing, and maintaining enterprise infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, cloud architectures, and dashboards
• 4+ years of experience with AWS
• 4+ years of experience with Linux administration
• 2+ years in an agile environment
• Experience with cloud networking
• Experience with Terraform and Nomad integration from scratch
• D2C experience is a plus
• Excellent collaborative and communication skills
• Independent and able to take ownership of features/projects

Bonus Capabilities

• Experience working in direct-to-consumer companies and brands
• Experience in start-up or other small team environment
• Ability to work through complex existing infrastructure and drive improvements and modifications
• Based on the West Coast/Pacific Time Zone

This role may be a good fit for you if

• You have excellent communication skills and a proven history of developing working relationships and fostering consensus and trust
• You have an ownership mindset and willingness to operate both at high-level strategy building (OKR creation, feature planning) and low-level hands-on technology implementation
• You love animals!

The following base pay range reflects the anticipated base pay for this position if a selected candidate were to be located in [ California] Base pay may vary based on location and other factors.

Base Pay Range: $95,000 - $130,000

[This position is eligible for short-term incentive compensation.] [The position is also eligible for long-term incentive.]