General Responsibilities:
- Expected to contribute to the success of the technology department by providing leadership and guidance;
- Recognised as a subject matter expert in areas specific to their discipline/team;
- Able to identify and address previously acknowledged problems, offering innovative solutions and influencing organisational strategy;
- Designs and leads implementation of operational, process, automation and/or streamlines work using industry best practices or incremental ideas, resulting in systemic improvements and/or increased engagement;
- Mentors junior and mid-level team members, actively participates in the hiring process, and contributes to the performance management process, providing valuable insights;
Main Responsibilities:
- Develop, document, and maintain our company's DevOps infrastructure, tools, and processes;
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to identify and prioritize areas for automation, optimization, and improvement;
- Build and maintain continuous integration and delivery pipelines;
- Manage and monitor cloud infrastructure and services, including servers, storage, and network components;
- Implement and maintain security and compliance standards for our systems and applications;
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues with infrastructure and applications, and implement measures to prevent recurrence;
- Mentor and coach junior DevOps team members;
- Keep up to date with the latest DevOps tools and technologies, and evaluate their potential to improve our processes and infrastructure;
- Configuration, Maintenance and security updates of computing systems;
Skills & Experience:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field;
- 5+ years of experience in a DevOps role, preferably within a web application development environment;
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and services, such as AWS, GCP, and Azure;
- Proficient in scripting and programming languages, such as Python, Bash, and JavaScript;
- Excellent experience with configuration management tools, such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Helm;
- Excellent experience with containerization technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes;
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools, such as Solarwinds, Datadog, Nagios, etc;
- Experience with agile methodologies and working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment;
- Intermediate English language communication and interpersonal skills;
Top Skills
What We Do
Insomniac Design is an award-winning digital creative agency founded in 1999, based in D.C.’s historic Blagden Alley. We’re an agile, nimble and innovative team organized by functional areas of expertise — Creative, Technology, Strategy, and Management. With offices in the U.S. and Europe, we’re a global team with diverse experience and cultural backgrounds who consistently strive for excellence. We specialize in human-centered design — with projects and work that includes complex web and mobile builds, digital transformation, branding, visual design, content, video and creative services.
We’ve worked in the areas of policy, advocacy, government, foundations, commercial brands, and more — with clients like Brand USA, UNICEF, The World Bank, World Health Organization, Amnesty International, BBC Worldwide, National Endowment for the Arts, Lufthansa Airlines, Adobe, and Google. Insomniac Design’s work has won numerous awards such as W3 Awards, Communicator Awards, and the AIB awards. Beyond the U.S., our work in Asia and Africa has been featured in news and media around the world.
