DevOps Engineer

What We Are Looking For:

We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer to help shape the future of mobility together. While we have a beautiful office space that fosters collaboration and creativity in one of the coolest buildings in downtown Portland, we are currently working remote during the COVID pandemic. We have many perks of tech with an open and flexible work environment, fun extracurricular activities and a unique culture that puts people first. What we’re looking for is exceptional people who share a passion for developing creative solutions that advance our mission and vision. As moovel’s next Senior DevOps Engineer you’ll be responsible for delivering world-class products to transit agencies and users throughout the world. The ideal candidate will play a key role in rapidly getting high quality code to production while maintaining highly reliable development operations. In this role, you will maximize the predictability, efficiency, security and maintainability of our operational environments.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Attend team planning and stand up meetings
• Provide operational feedback and expertise within the engineering team
• Be an instrumental part in long-term architectural requirements
• On-call rotation for incident response
• Perform infrastructure work and changes
• Identify automation and scripting to help improve development efficiency
• Advocate for automation and tooling changes in planning meetings
• Train developers on tooling use when needed
• Work with other cross functional and product teams to design key platform features
• Other duties as required by the company

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• 2+ years experience of deploying and supporting infrastructure
• 1+ years experience with continuous integration and deployment
• Extensive knowledge of and ability to administer and monitor various services running on Linux
• Strong bash skills and moderate JavaScript fluency
• Proficient with commonly used Amazon Web Services infrastructure and patterns
• Experienced with SQL and NoSQL database technologies
• Must be able to work proficiently on server environments using a console editor such as VI
• Solid understanding of Linux software package systems and deployment schemes
• Experience with automation-centric workflow management
• Familiarity with containerization and server-less architecture concepts
• Demonstrated experience with implementing systems that adhere to security best practices

Preferred Qualifications and Skills:

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Familiarity with Jira
• Strong understanding of RESTful principles
• Familiarity with GraphQL
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and concepts
• Proficiency in Javascript, Node.js
• Experience in micro-service or service oriented architectures
• Understanding of virtualization and containers (Docker)

Required Attributes:

• Can do attitude to tenaciously problem-solve
• Ability to effectively assist developers and provide constructive operational feedback
• Excellent process-oriented thinking and implementation
• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders
• A self-starter and self-reliant, but knows how to be a team player
• Customer centric work style

Preferred Attributes:

• Positive attitude
• Ability to be productive with multiple programming languages, frameworks and paradigms
• Willingness and capacity to learn new frameworks and languages quickly

Who We Are:

moovel North America

Headquartered in Portland, OR, moovel NA offers competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and disability benefits at no cost to employees. We also offer a generous holiday schedule with four weeks of PTO annually. Our compensation program includes a 3% retirement contribution, and competitive base salaries.

In addition to the more traditional benefits, we offer a cell phone allowance, a welcoming environment for dogs of all sizes and many other perks. You will also have the opportunity to work with a diverse team in our Portland office as well as with our parent company, Strategic Mapping, Inc., based in Toronto, Canada.

Our office is centrally located in the heart of Old Town, bike friendly, and within walking distance to a multitude of restaurants, bars, and shops. The Portland Streetcar and TriMet offer easy-to-use transit services connecting the downtown Portland district to the Pearl District and greater Downtown Portland.

At moovel, we believe individuality drives innovation and delivers organizational strength. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture. We strive to embrace a multicultural approach and are committed to challenging existing biases to create a more equitable and unified workplace

moovel provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, moovel complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has employees. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Strategic Mapping Inc.

Strategic Mapping is a privately owned company and a complete end–to–end provider of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Strategic Mapping offers hardware design, software application and system integration services to many of North America's leading transit agencies.

Strategic Mapping was founded in 2006, with locations in both the United States and Canada. With 14 years of expertise in the transit space, they are dedicated to providing innovative, scalable, user friendly and cost effective technologies for agencies of all sizes. Their advanced Smart Bus applications are designed to streamline day-to-day operations by providing transit agencies with tools to better manage their fleet while simultaneously enhancing trip planning, accessibility and the passenger experience.