CIQ OVERVIEW
CIQ is becoming the fastest-growing and most impactful young company for providing software infrastructure. From the base operating system through all forms of performance-intensive computing, CIQ helps people do what they do best!
Our customers and partners include some of the largest and most influential companies in the world, coupled with a fantastic group of investors, CIQ is poised to become the next unicorn startup. From curing cancer, going to space, and accelerating AI to working with the open-source community, there is so much awesomeness happening at CIQ.
We are looking to team up with others who are passionate about helping others achieve greatness, love being impactful, and ready to dive in head first to change the world. If this sounds like you, then we’d love to talk!
POSITION SUMMARY
The Sr. Automation and Release Engineer will play an instrumental role in bringing CIQ’s Linux automation infrastructure to the next level. As an Automation and Release Engineer, you will work closely with CIQ’s Engineering and Operations teams to architect, implement, and maintain automation, build, and test tooling for everything from Linux packages to entire operating system images for use in on-prem, cloud, and high-performance computing environments. This role requires a deep technical understanding of Linux, modern automation and build tooling, scripting and software development, and systems engineering, as well as an insatiable appetite for learning more.
Additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Provide subject matter expertise on automation and build tooling
- Contributing or participating in architecture-level discussions, planning, and implementation
- Research to ensure that what we are building is always the best path forward
- Document each project to share knowledge and facilitate cross-training
- Develop proof of concepts and minimal viable products for demonstration
- Design and implement test automation for everything from software packages to the operating system
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to support product deliverables and business objectives
- Identify opportunities to optimize performance and reduce costs across the infrastructure landscape.
NEEDED TO SUCCEED
Successful candidates will have:
- Expertise in automation, tooling, build systems, Linux, containers, virtual machines, and delivering high-quality products to maximize CIQ’s capability to scale.
- A deep familiarity with Cloud and Cloud-Native Principles.
- Strong ability to work with cross-functional teams to implement and optimize cloud marketplace integrations.
- The ability to troubleshoot and improve applications and processes, analyze current code and industry developments, and develop engineering solutions to solve problems.
- Proficiency in managing and maintaining compute environments, including virtualization and containerization.
- A friendly, collaborative, humble, honest, and always striving-to-be-better attitude.
- Deep-seated need to replace the world with scripts.
- Curiosity and an eagerness to learn.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- BS/BA in Computer Science or related
- 5+ years of relevant work experience in AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Direct hands-on experience leading the design, development, and deployment of cloud solutions at scale, or current hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience
BENEFITS
Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Flexible paid time off.
Employee stock options.
Remote work, no required travel for most positions.
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What We Do
Empowering People To Do What They Do Great! At CIQ, we are here to help our customers and communities do amazing things! We are your escalation or development team. We are your infrastructure. We are your cloud. We are the people that will have your back, so you can do what you do great. Our Values Empowering Innovating software infrastructure solutions for extreme performance and scale including service models designed to meet the needs of your organization. Improving Our passion is to always do better. Always provide more value. Always drive intelligent innovation. Always provide what the customer & community needs. Growing CIQ believes in constant and never-ending growth. We are growing fast and looking for like-minded people with an unwavering passion for always doing better for ourselves and others. What do you get when you cross High Performance Computing with Enterprise, Cloud, and Hyper-scale? The Answer is CIQ. CIQ is composed of technology founders, innovators, engineers, some of the leading creators in the industry, and we all share the same vision: to help companies, teams, and individuals do amazing things. Open Source When we decide to open source a project, it is because we believe it would be best for the project and community. But open source is not a marketing gimmick nor a sales tool, and it should never be at the mercy of a corporate agenda. This is why we’ve given our open source initiatives properly to the community, and we strive to set the precedent such that other companies would do likewise. Always Customers First Our model is simple: We support people, not cores or sockets. People. Follow us on YouTube and Twitter: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQbKq1vIffqRAMUDPfHcU0w https://twitter.com/CtrlIQ?s=20&t=7pQXepSSimeTqytBY52Dhw
