Sr. DevOps Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with a primary focus on Elasticsearch Observability and related technologies. The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing ELK stack solutions, managing Elasticsearch indices, integrating web APIs, and overseeing self-hosted clusters. This role includes designing centralized logging solutions, optimizing configurations, and fine-tuning bulk load processes. Additionally, the engineer will participate in technical discussions, advocate for logging best practices, troubleshoot issues, and plan for effective cluster capacity.

What your impact will look like here:

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Elasticsearch and Logging Solutions:

• Implement & Manage ELK stack solutions, contribute to Design centralized logging solutions.
• Configure Observability metrics and parameters
• Setup & Manage Elasticsearch indices and self-hosted clusters & Optimize configurations and fine-tune bulk load processes.
• Integrate web APIs for enhanced functionality.




Technical Leadership:

• Participate actively in technical discussions.
• Advocate for logging best practices across teams.
• Troubleshoot complex issues related to logging and data ingestion.
• Plan and manage cluster capacity effectively.




CI/CD Pipeline Development:

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines to streamline software development and deployment.
• Collaborate with development teams for efficient code integration and delivery.




Infrastructure Automation:

• Develop scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure solutions using infrastructure as code.
• Write and maintain scripts for infrastructure provisioning and management.




Containerization and Orchestration:

• Create and maintain Docker images for application containerization.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters.
• Utilize Helm charts for standardized and efficient application deployment.




Artifact Management and Security Scanning:

• Manage artifact repositories for storage and versioning.
• Conduct security scanning to ensure artifact integrity and compliance.




Cloud Security and Secrets Management:

• Define and enforce security policies across cloud environments.
• Secure sensitive data using secrets management solutions.
• Integrate secrets management seamlessly with systems and applications.




Collaboration, Mentorship, and Continuous Improvement:

• Mentor junior engineers and share technical expertise.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of systems and processes.
• Stay updated with industry trends and propose innovations to enhance system reliability and efficiency.

You will love this job if you have:

• 5+ years of extensive experience with Elasticsearch and ELK stack implementations & Observability (certification is an added advantage).
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools, infrastructure as code, Cloud Services, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, artifact management, security scanning, and secrets management.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Demonstrated ability to enforce security compliance and best practices.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Proven track record of mentoring team members and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

We area globally distributed workforce across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Armenia, Australia, and New Zealand.

At Granicus, we are building a transparent, inclusive, and safe space for everyone who wants to be a part of our journey. A few culture highlights include –

- Employee Resource Groups to encourage diverse voices

- Coffee with Mark sessions – Our employees get to interact with our CEO on very important and sometimes difficult issues ranging from mental health to work life balance and current affairs.

- Embracing diversity & fostering a culture of ideation, collaboration & meritocracy

- We bring in special guests from time to time to discuss issues that impact our employee population

Serving the People Who Serve the People

Granicus is driven by the excitement of building, implementing, and maintaining technology that is transforming the Govtech industry by bringing governments and its constituents together. We are on a mission to support our customers with meeting the needs of their communities and implementing our technology in ways that are equitable and inclusive. Granicus has consistently appeared on the GovTech 100 list over the past 5 years and has been recognized as the best companies to work on BuiltIn.

Over the last 25 years, we have served 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies and more than 300 million citizen subscribers power an unmatched Subscriber Network that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place. With comprehensive cloud-based solutions for communications, government website design, meeting and agenda management software, records management, and digital services, Granicus empowers stronger relationships between government and residents across the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. By simplifying interactions with residents, while disseminating critical information, Granicus brings governments closer to the people they serve—driving meaningful change for communities around the globe.

Want to know more? See more of what we do here.

We are proud to serve dynamic organizations around the globe that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place — quite literally. We have so many powerful success stories that illustrate how our solutions are impacting the world. See more of our impact here.

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- Phone screen – Speak to one of our talented recruiters to ensure this could be a fit.

- Hiring Manager/Panel interview – Talk to the hiring manager so they can learn more about you and you about Granicus. Meet more members on the team! Learn more and share more.

- Reference checks – Provide 2 references so we can hear about your awesomeness.

- Verbal offer – Let’s talk numbers, benefits, culture and answer any questions.

- Written offer – Sign a formal letter and get excited because we sure are!

Along with the challenges of the job, Granicus offers employees an attractive benefits package which includes –

- Hospitalization Insurance Policy covering employees and their family members including parents

- All employees are covered under Personal Accident Insurance & Term Life Insurance policy

- All employees can avail annual health check facility

- Eligible for reimbursement of telephone and internet expenses

- Wellness Allowance to avail health club memberships and/or access to physical fitness centres

- Wellbeing Wednesdays which includes 1x global Unplug Day and 2x No Meeting Days every quarter

- Memberships for ‘meditation and mindfulness apps including on-demand mental health support 24/7 

- Access to learning management system Say., LinkedIn Learning Premium account membership & many more

- Access to Rewards & recognition portal and quarterly recognition program

- Responsible for Granicus information security by appropriately preserving the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of Granicus information assets in accordance with the company's information security program.

- Responsible for ensuring the data privacy of our employees and customers, their data, as well as taking all required privacy training in a timely manner, in accordance with company policies. 

Granicus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities. All qualified applicants and employees will be considered for employment and advancement without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, age, genetic information, sexual or affectional orientation, marital status, status regarding public assistance, familial status, military or veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law.