About Vizit:
Vizit is at the forefront of visual content intelligence, empowering brands to optimize their online presence through data-driven insights. We are a fast-growing e-commerce company based in Boston, and we are looking for top-tier talent to join our team and help scale our innovative solutions.
Position Overview:
We are seeking a seasoned Principal DevOps Engineer with a strong focus on DevOps to lead our infrastructure initiatives and support our Research & Development team. In this role, you will play a critical part in shaping and executing our cloud strategy, while also implementing robust QA practices. If you have a passion for automation, infrastructure as code, and cloud architecture, and are equally comfortable supporting a QA environment, we want to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of highly scalable, secure, and efficient AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth integration and deployment processes.
- Implement and maintain automation frameworks and tools for infrastructure provisioning using Python and AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK).
- Work closely with the R&D department to build test harnesses, and design and implement end-to-end testing strategies.
- Oversee integration testing and deployment processes, ensuring that new code is reliably released into production.
- Continuously improve system performance, availability, and scalability.
- Ensure security best practices are followed, and implement automated monitoring and alerting solutions.
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers on DevOps and QA best practices.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, with a strong track record of leading cloud infrastructure initiatives.
- Expertise in serverless event-driven architecture. Should know how to solve service limits config issues with AWS Lambda and Docker issues.
- Amazon EC2 experience managing Lambda, clusters, and VPC.
- Strong in Amazon CDK.
- Familiarity managing AWS Organizations.
- Principal or Staff DevOps Engineer title currently.
- Familiarity with managing complex launch configurations.
- Experience managing Linux.
- Proficiency in Python, particularly in automating cloud infrastructure and building deployment pipelines.
- Experience working with software teams to stand up QA automation.
- Experience in a big data environment with ETL.
- Experience supporting R&D teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
- Excellent English communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
What we offer:
- Competitive Salary and Stock Options
- Remote Availability. Most team members are located around Boston, MA so engineers who live outside of Boston generally fly in every 3-6 months to meet up in person!
- High Stability. We are growing and well-capitalized!
- Paid Holidays
- Medical and Dental Insurance, and FSA Healthcare
- 401K
- Annual $250 Wellness Allowance
- Annual $250 Home Office Allowance
- Endless opportunities to learn and take on new responsibilities in a growing startup
About Vizit:
Vizit is the world leader in AI-powered visual content performance software for brand manufacturers, retailers, and creators all over the world. One of the fastest-growing AI startups in the United States, Vizit pioneered the field of image analytics and launched the worlds first content measurement standard - Vizit Scores - to help e-commerce leaders, designers, marketers and around the globe increase attention levels, audience appeal, and conversion effectiveness with their target audiences online. Vizit works with the worlds most iconic brands and retailers, including Mars, LOreal, Unilever, and Harley Davidson.
For more information, visit us at www.vizit.com*
**All candidates must live in the United States.
