Devops Engineer

Kitu Systems, Inc. is an industry leader in distributed energy resources. As a mature DER aggregator, virtual power plant, electric vehicle charge management system, and embedded energy client Kitu serves a rapidly expanding global energy economy. Kitu’s end-to-end energy services Grid Action PlatformTM serves utilities, charge point operators, residential and commercial energy market participants, and OEMs for a broad range of commercial needs.  Kitu is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our team in a dynamic and growing clean energy industry.

Job Summary 

Are you looking for a company where you will be an integral member of an engineering team focused on delivering cutting edge solutions? Would you like to make a noticeable and direct impact? Do you have a passion for technology, the environment and making the world a better place?

About The Role

Kitu Systems is scaling rapidly and needs your help to define and build our future. We are looking for dedicated, creative engineers to architect and implement solutions to catalyst velocity, visibility, observability, reliability, and scalability across our product teams. In this position you will be an integral member of an engineering team focused on delivering cutting edge solutions to a broad range of DevOps and Cloud-native challenges. 

 What You Will Be Doing

• Establish and continually improve software development infrastructure. You will be an evangelist for developer and engineering enablement through building, improving, and documenting cloud-native solutions, CI/CD systems, Infrastructure as Code, Configuration Management, and observability and security frameworks.  
• Identify and eliminate toil. You will design and develop automated solutions to reduce toil and improve operational efficiency. 
• Troubleshoot complex issues quickly and effectively. When mission critical systems go down, you will be a member of the team responsible for owning the outage across its lifecycle, from remediation to postmortem. 
• Passionately create and contribute. You will work collaboratively with engineers across various technical areas, products, and backgrounds. You will quickly adapt to new challenges and deliver solutions that are reusable, scalable, observable, and secure. 
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ year(s) experience in DevOps or Operations/System Engineer role
• Experience with Linux  is a must
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
• Experience with Git
• Experience with tools and best practices including:  
• IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, and CloudFormation)  
• Configuration Management (Ansible, Chef or Puppet)  
• CI/CD (Bitbucket, CircleCI, Jenkins, Gitlab-CI, etc.)  
• Scripting (BASH, Python, Go, etc.)  
• Observability and alerting tools (ELK, Logz.io, SumoLogic, Prometheus,  Grafana, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, New Relic, etc.) 
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Docker-Compose, Podman, Kubernetes, etc)
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or similar technical field
• Experience supporting 24/7 mission critical systems
• Experience building and deploying Node/NPM applications 
• Experience deploying and supporting cloud-native applications 
• Experience helping organizations improve their operational maturity (logging, monitoring, incident management, observability, etc.)
• Experience with Agile/SCRUM
  
  

What We Offer

Kitu Systems offers competitive compensation and a benefits package including: 

• Medical, dental and vision insurance (company pays 90% of employee premiums) 
• 3 weeks paid time off (PTO) 
• 401(k), Life insurance, Flexible spending account (FSA), Health Savings Accounts (HSA) 
• Remote work (USA only and other state limitations may apply)
• Rapid growth opportunities
  
  

Please note

• Candidate Must be a US Citizen/ Green Card Holder
• US candidates only please
• No third-party candidates
• No Visa sponsorship
  
  

Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunity

Kitu Systems values our employees and recognizes that all individuals have the ability to make an impact. We are an equal opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. Kitu is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Kitu Systems are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, creed, religion or belief, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, family or parental status, or any other legally protected status.

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