VAST Data is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our growing team!
Due to the nature of this role involving active engagement with government contracts and sensitive information, U.S. citizenship is required to ensure compliance with legal and security clearance obligations.
This is a great opportunity to be part of one of the fastest-growing infrastructure companies in history, an organization that is in the center of the hurricane being created by the revolution in artificial intelligence.
"VAST's data management vision is the future of the market."- Forbes
VAST Data is the data platform company for the AI era. We are building the enterprise software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and protect massive datasets and make them available for real-time data analysis and AI training and inference. Designed from the ground up to make AI simple to deploy and manage, VAST takes the cost and complexity out of deploying enterprise and AI infrastructure across data center, edge, and cloud.
Our success has been built through intense innovation, a customer-first mentality and a team of fearless VASTronauts who leverage their skills & experiences to make real market impact. This is an opportunity to be a key contributor at a pivotal time in our company’s growth and at a pivotal point in computing history.
The DevOps Engineer position is a sales engineering operations role and is an integrated part of our sales team. You will be responsible for developing software and infrastructure to improve the efficiency of our Sales Engineering team. If you are a DevOps Engineer that is passionate about automating and scaling everything, this job is for you.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and improve internal toolsets that directly support the Sales Engineers, improving their ability to quickly deliver VAST value to our customers.
- Automate tasks involved in the VAST sales and delivery process.
- Manage infrastructure supporting critical web-based applications.
- Maintain infrastructure supporting Docker-based applications.
- Develop and maintain internal and external facing applications built on various technologies such as Node.JS, Angular, SCSS, GraphQL, MongoDB, Docker, AWS ECS (and related services such as S3, ALB, EC2, SSM, etc.).
- Experience with managing AWS infrastructure and services such as ECR, ECS, ALB, S3, EC2
- Experience with software development practices and at least one programming language (JavaScript is preferred, but not required)
- Linux/Unix/Windows shell scripting experience
- Experience with IP-based networking and related technologies / services such as DHCP, DNS, multicast, VLANs, LACP, IP subnetting, and routing protocols.
- Experience writing technical documentation, both for internal engineers and external customers
- Experience in developing, integrating, or utilizing AI-driven agents for code generation, testing, or infrastructure automation.
Nice To Have Skills:
- Experience with code repository systems such as GitLab
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and infrastructure automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
- Experience with web-based technologies such as HTML, CSS, WebSockets, REST APIs, SOAP, XML, JSON
- Understanding of common web-application frameworks such as Angular, React.JS, Bootstrap
Skills Required
- Experience managing AWS infrastructure and services (ECR, ECS, ALB, S3, EC2)
- Experience with software development practices and at least one programming language
- JavaScript (preferred)
- Linux/Unix/Windows shell scripting experience
- Experience with IP-based networking (DHCP, DNS, multicast, VLANs, LACP, IP subnetting, routing protocols)
- Experience writing technical documentation for internal and external audiences
- Experience developing, integrating, or utilizing AI-driven agents for code generation, testing, or infra automation
- Experience developing and maintaining applications built on Node.js, Angular, SCSS, GraphQL, MongoDB, Docker
- Experience managing infrastructure supporting Docker-based applications and AWS ECS/related services
- Experience with GitLab (nice to have)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
- Experience with web technologies (HTML, CSS, WebSockets, REST APIs, SOAP, XML, JSON)
- Understanding of web application frameworks (Angular, React.js, Bootstrap)
VAST Data Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about VAST Data and has not been reviewed or approved by VAST Data.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision and life insurance are included, with several elements identified as employer-provided. Coverage aligns with what is commonly offered by high‑growth tech companies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes generous or unlimited PTO alongside paid sick days and paid holidays, coupled with remote or work‑from‑home flexibility. This breadth supports taking time away when needed.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Company equity is a standard part of offers with a typical four‑year vest, and professional development support is available. Equity is positioned as a meaningful component of total compensation at a growth‑stage company.
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What We Do
Meet the data platform company for the AI era. Accelerating time-to-insight for workload-intensive applications, the VAST Data Platform delivers scalable performance, radically simple data management and enhanced productivity for the AI-powered world. Launched in 2019, VAST is the fastest-selling data infrastructure startup in history.
