DevOps Engineer

About PDQ

PDQ, founded in Salt Lake City, UT, USA, makes device management simple, secure, and Pretty Damn Quick through our products Deploy, Inventory, Connect, Detect, SimpleMDM and SmartDeploy. IT teams use our products to reduce complexity, improve efficiency, and enhance control in their unique environments. We are backed by TA Associates and Berkshire Partners, top-tier global private equity firms.

PDQ's Core Values: Honesty, Ownership, Collaboration and Improvement

Job Description

• Before you apply, please note:
• Please note this is a hybrid role open to candidates in the Salt Lake City, UT area with an expectation of three in-office working days at our South Salt Lake City headquarters.
  

We’re looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer to join our team and help scale and secure our products, including our cloud hosted, agent-based product, Connect. You’ll be responsible for automating infrastructure, streamlining CI/CD pipelines, improving system reliability, and collaborating closely with engineering teams to ensure seamless deployments and high availability - while also driving improvements to the developer experience by reducing friction in development workflows and tooling.

What You'll Be Doing

• Assist development teams with deploying and maintaining CI/CD pipelines as well as maintaining workloads in Kubernetes infrastructure in GCP
• Configuring and building infrastructure as code in Terraform
• Collaborate with development teams to enhance efficiency, streamline workflows and improve overall development experience.
• Respond to and resolve infrastructure health and performance issues
• Participate in weekly on-call rotation and incident management
  
  

Who You Are

• Experience with:
• 3+ years in a professional DevOps role working with Kubernetes
• At least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Tools to define infrastructure as code (e.g., Terrform)
• CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI)
• Bonus: Writing technical documentation
• Bonus: Configuration of tracing, centralized logs, metrics and monitoring
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., Bash, Python, Go)
• Familiarity with observability tools and practices
  

We're Looking For People Who Have

• Ownership: You take responsibility for projects, drive results, and deliver on commitments.  You surface learnings, obstacles, and seek out support from cross-functional team members and your leadership 
• Honesty: You demonstrate integrity, transparency, and ethical behavior in all interactions     
• Collaboration: You work effectively with cross-functional teams and foster a culture of teamwork     
• Improvement: You continuously seek opportunities for growth, innovation, and personal development     
• Detail-oriented, organized and a good team player  
  
  

PDQ Perks & Benefits

PDQ offers all of the great perks and benefits you'd expect from working at a very cool tech company, and even some you might not expect, including:

• 4-Day Work Week
• Managers who champion professional development
• 100% Premium Coverage for medical, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• 100% Premium Coverage for Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance
• Company Match of the first 6% of your employee deferrals
• Flexible Paid Time Off Policy that treats you like the adult that you are
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and wellness incentives
• Quarterly Company Values Award (team member nominated)
  
  

PDQ is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law. If you would like to request reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process, please contact [email protected].

The majority of PDQ's full-time roles do not qualify for sponsorship of employment visas such as the H-1B visa. This applies to scenarios where a candidate might possess temporary work authorization during their schooling or after graduation (e.g., CPT, OPT), but would require H-1B visa sponsorship within a few years of employment to retain eligibility for employment.