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Project Canary

DevOps Engineer | DBA

Project Canary, Denver, CO


DevOps Engineer | DBA

Department: Technology

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Denver Headquarters

Compensation: $98,000 - $134,000 / year

Description

Project Canary is a climate technology company offering an enterprise data platform that helps energy companies improve and report on their emissions footprint. Project Canary builds high-fidelity sensors, ingests data from various other technologies and sources, and leverages proprietary analytics and models to deliver insights that operators can act on to reduce emissions. The data-driven technology enables energy operators to stop leaks faster, reduce risk, streamline reporting, and differentiate their operations for key stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS
  • Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
  • Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure defined as code
  • Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
  • Administer and troubleshoot Linux based systems
  • Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
  • Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS infrastructure and systems
  • Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization


Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Education and experience:

  • 5 years experience with deployment and administration of PostgreSQL databases in distributed systems
  • At least 2-3 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (ECS/Fargate, EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch)
  • Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements
  • Experience with Python, Ansible, and deploying applications on AWS in a Linux environment
  • Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools
  • Strong bias for action and ownership

Nice to haves:

  • Previous startup experience would be a huge plus
  • Latent desire and/or curiosity in related domain like software development, front-end engineering, security or project management
  • Experience with AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Templates or Terraform
  • Experience with TimescaleDB and PgBouncer
  • Experience with New Relic
  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)


Benefits
  • Salary range: $ annual base
  • Hybrid work environment (at least 3 days/week in Denver office)
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance with low deductibles and premiums paid by company 99% for self and 50% for dependents and/or spouse
  • 401K with company match (no vesting period)
  • Opportunity for equity ownership
  • Student loan assistance
  • Generous PTO
  • 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave (gender neutral) including adoptions
  • Flex Choice Monthly Stipend - choice between parking, public transportation, or wellness assistance
  • Dog friendly office environment