DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

DevOps Engineer (Remote, United States) to maintain and extend the Zapp Store platform. You will own parts of the deployment lifecycle, routing/authentication integration, CI/CD automation, and monitoring/observability for containerized services.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and extend the Zapp Store platform, including:
  • Service deployments
  • Routing and reverse proxy configuration
  • Authentication integration
  • Container lifecycle management
• Improve and scale deployment patterns for containerized applications (Docker/Podman/Apptainer, Compose, and future Kubernetes).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions for continuous deployment to the platform.
• Extend and operate monitoring/observability (including Prometheus and Grafana, plus Traefik metrics).
• Develop tooling and automation to onboard new applications to the platform.
• Support hybrid deployment strategies bridging on-prem Zapp Store with Azure cloud services.
• Implement consistent configuration and secrets management patterns across environments.
• Document runbooks, SOPs, and architecture decisions.
• Reduce manual operational burden via automation.

Requirements

• 5+ years in DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
• Strong Linux systems experience (not a sysadmin role; no patching/OS-level maintenance).
• Production Docker and container orchestration experience (experience with Podman and/or Apptainer is a plus).
• CI/CD pipeline development (GitHub Actions preferred).
• Reverse proxy and service routing experience (e.g., Traefik, nginx).
• Automation scripting with Bash and Python.
• Familiarity with identity/auth systems (e.g., Keycloak, OAuth2, OIDC).
• Basic SQL competency.

Nice to Have

• Kubernetes (on-prem or AKS).
• Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform and/or Ansible.
• Azure CLI or internal tooling development in Python/C/Rust (or similar).
• Monitoring stack experience (Prometheus/Grafana) and metrics integration.
• Life sciences or R&D environment experience.

Contract / Location

• Remote (United States)
• Contract: No visa sponsorship required (contract type not clearly specified beyond “Contract: No Visa Sponsorship Required”).