Element 84
Element 84
51 – 200 Employees
ConsultingHealthcareLogistics
Element 84 is a woman-owned small business that develops geospatial data processing and software solutions for public, private, and nonprofit organizations. Its work includes cloud-native geospatial processing, interactive visualization, and machine learning for satellite, aerial, and drone imagery. The company’s tools include FilmDrop, an open-source suite for processing geospatial data in the cloud, and GroundWork, an annotation platform for geospatial imagery. Element 84 focuses on applying these technologies to challenges involving planetary health, infrastructure, and environmental sustainability.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Design secure AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure and automation as a senior DevOps engineer. Support Element 84’s geospatial, Earth science, and generative AI systems.

Description

  • Design and deliver robust, scalable, secure cloud-native solutions on AWS.
  • Work with security specialists to turn organizational requirements into secure, compliant cloud implementations.
  • Build and maintain infrastructure as code across Azure and AWS accounts.
  • Maintain and improve CI/CD automation pipelines.
  • Write automation scripts in Python, Bash, JavaScript, and other relevant languages.
  • Support infrastructure for generative AI applications using domain-specific datasets.
  • Automate the creation and management of front-end and back-end applications, pipelines, and security tools.
  • Establish and promote DevOps practices and standards across Element 84 and its customers.
  • Work with technical teams and customers on complex operational systems.
  • Design, deploy, and support enterprise software in cloud environments.

Requirements

  • At least 6 years of software development experience.
  • At least 3 years focused on cloud technologies.
  • Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (IaC).
  • Experience writing, maintaining, and troubleshooting complex cloud configurations.
  • Strong development experience in one or more languages such as Python, Bash, or JavaScript.
  • Experience designing, deploying, and managing infrastructure and services on a major cloud platform.
  • Ability to document and explain architecture, deliver presentations, create architecture visualizations, and write white papers.
  • Experience balancing security, performance, maintainability, and cost.
  • Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple customers.
  • Extensive experience on an Agile software development team.
  • Solid experience with Linux environments.
  • In-depth knowledge of cloud architecture patterns and tradeoffs.
  • Expertise with build and deployment automation tools.
  • Proficiency with monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, AWS Config, Kibana, Splunk, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or Honeycomb.
  • Experience with data storage and engineering technologies such as Elasticsearch, SQL, NoSQL, DynamoDB, Redshift, Athena, or Glue.
  • Experience with networking technologies such as CloudFront, Route 53, load balancers, API Gateway, VPCs, and NACLs.
  • A technical cloud certification or willingness to earn one.
  • Must be a US citizen or lawful permanent resident.
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.
  • Home office must be within 100 miles of Alexandria, Virginia, or Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field; equivalent professional experience may substitute.
  • Preferred: Experience with generative AI, regulated environments, authentication and authorization, geospatial tools, containerized workloads, data warehousing, or data lakehouses.
  • Must be able to pass the NOAA background investigation and obtain a NOAA badge.

Benefits

  • Bonuses based on performance and company profits.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Life insurance.
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance.
  • Optional accident, critical illness, and hospital insurance.
  • 401(k) and Roth 401(k) plans with a fixed 3% employer contribution.
  • Health savings account with an employer contribution.
  • Flexible spending accounts for medical, dependent care, and transportation expenses.
  • Company-paid parental leave after one year of employment.
  • Flexible work schedules.
  • Paid employee assistance program.
  • Paid sick leave.
  • Six paid floating holidays per year.
  • Four weeks and one day of paid vacation per calendar year.
  • Cell phone stipend.
  • Remote work arrangement.
  • Global? No explicit global benefit stated

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