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Senior DevOps Engineer

blackshark.ai

blackshark.ai

Software Engineering
Laurel, MD, USA
Posted on Dec 23, 2024
Satellite and drone imagery access is on the rise, and traditional image processing methods are struggling to keep up. We’ve never had more data, and yet it’s never been harder to gain meaningful insights.
Our scalable AI platform enables custom model training on global features, providing real-time, on-demand geospatial insights with impressive speed and accuracy. The application turns months of manual work into mere minutes, and with much better results. We work with customers from various domains, from intelligence and defence, local and federal governments, insurance industry, to small and large enterprises, which requires us to have a lot of flexibility on how we deploy and maintain our services.
We kicked off in 2020 and have secured $35 million in series A funding from a lineup of top US and European investors, among which Microsoft M12, Point72 Ventures, Maxar, In-Q-Tel, SAFRAN, and ISAI/Capgemini.

Your Mission

  • Build and run Kubernetes clusters in Azure and on bare metal
  • Automate operational tasks (infrastructure as code, CI/CD)
  • Optimize our integration and deployment life cycle
  • Enhance the observability across our tech stack
  • Maintain the highest security standards
  • Automate cloud cost optimization
  • Monitor system performance and health metrics, proactively identify areas of improvement
  • Ensure that testing environments are reproducible and consistent with production

Your profile

  • You have experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform
  • You bring in depth knowledge of software infrastructure
  • You are a good communicator, enjoy working in a team, and are quick on your feet
  • You have experience with Linux system administration, and know how to track down bugs in production
  • You have a Bachelor degree (or equivalent professional experience) in a related field
  • You are comfortable traveling to customer sites for on premise deployments
  • Ideally:
  • You possess some software integration skills (Python, Bash)
  • You have experience in system architecture design

Why join us

  • Drive cutting-edge projects for leading Tier 1 enterprise customers in a wide range of industries.
  • Apply your knowledge to practical industrial-scale innovation.
  • Do meaningful work and make an impact that matters and lasts.
  • Constantly grow surrounded by teams guided by science and fueled by passion.
  • Laugh a lot with amazing colleagues from all backgrounds and nationalities.
  • Access a wide range of personalized benefits (learning plans, mental wellbeing programs, healthcare etc.).

Tech Stack

  • Linux
  • AWS & Azure
  • Azure DevOps
  • Kubernetes & Docker
  • Terraform
  • Redis
  • Bash, Python
  • Postgres
  • Prometheus & Grafana
  • ArgoCD & Helm
  • Elasticsearch & Kibana
In accordance with Austrian legislation, we are disclosing the minimum remuneration fixed for this position is : 60.000,--€ gross per year. The effective salary depends on qualification and experience and may be significantly higher!