DevOps Engineer @ high-growth DC startup FiscalNote

FiscalNote is the leading Government Relations Management platform. Our mission is to build the world’s most powerful platform for analyzing government risk and opportunity. For organizations facing government impact, FiscalNote is the platform for professionals to plan and execute their organization’s government risk strategy. Organizations rely on FiscalNote because of its accurate and relevant information, cutting-edge analytics, and ease of use.

About the Position Constantly iterating our products to even more exciting technological heights, we rely heavily on our DevOps Engineer to manage and maintain our core infrastructure. Because our agile environment moves incredibly fast, our DevOps Engineer must have the experience and skill set to provide the most efficient conditions for our engineers and data scientists to thrive. As we grow, it’s critical that our DevOps Engineer actively explore new technologies that will further our efforts to unlock open data and make it useful across industries.

You Will - Automate, maintain, and scale a cloud based production environment - Leverage your extensive knowledge of Linux and security practices to ensure that our systems and data are secure - Continually monitor the health and uptime of our production environment and its dependencies - Respond to any infrastructure issues in order to meet customer and internal SLAs - Work in a highly-collaborative, fast-paced environment while maintaining a professional and positive demeanor - Communicate with both technical and non-technical employees across all functional areas - Use continuous deployment tools in order to provide a seamless deployment process to all environments

You Have - The ability to code or script in Bash, Perl, Python or Ruby - Extensive system administration experience with Linux based systems in a distributed environment - Extensive knowledge of cloud-based computing environments (Amazon AWS preferred) - Proficiency with relational and non-relational databases, including Elasticsearch, MongoDB or PostgreSQL - Knowledge and experience with central logging systems, specifically ELK - Experience configuring, deploying, and supporting at least one networking monitoring tool (Cacti, monit, MRTG, Nagios, PagerDuty, Zenoss, etc.) - Knowledge and use of at least one configuration management system (Ansible, cfengine Chef, Puppet, etc.) - Understanding of design and implementation of network management systems - Knowledge of TCP/IP fundamentals, including application layer protocols (e.g. DNS, FTP, SMTP, etc.) and firewalls - A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field