DevOps Engineer

Lynker Corporation • Remote (Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States) • 1w ago

Overview

Lynker is supporting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in
providing comprehensive river and flood forecasts and warnings, for use by the public and
emergency managers to protect life and property. This critical water intelligence also supports
socio-economic decision-making for a sustained and enhanced economy.

We are seeking a DevOps engineer to work on the team that provides integrated water prediction,
forecasting the movement and presence of water throughout the nation in terms of quantity
and availability, from summit to sea, treetop to bedrock, with the appropriate timeliness,
resolution, reliability, accuracy, and quantified uncertainty required to inform risk-based water
resource management decisions.

Responsibilities

• Development and maintenance of water models, core components and features
• Create and collaborate on technical specifications for new development initiatives
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure the timely delivery of new modeling features and
releases
• Assist in the development and maintenance of quality and continuous integration tests and
practices
• Assist in the documentation of current and existing features
• Provide technical communication and collaboration with other teams where appropriate

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated testing and deployment.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and security.
• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar IaC technologies.
• Collaborate with development teams to define and implement microservices-based architecture and deployment strategies.
• Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement enhancements to improve system reliability.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and scaling.
• Implement and manage container orchestration platforms and workflows.
• Ensure robust logging, monitoring, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack.
• Participate in incident response and post-mortem analysis to improve future systems resilience.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging DevOps tools, best practices, and technologies.

Qualifications

• 3 to 6 years supporting DevOps initiatives.
• BS/BA in computer science or similar
• Analyze system requirements and scaling infrastructure components
• Experience supporting a MaaS platform
• Experience supporting a high availability infrastructure
• Highly proficient with best practices and industry standards

About Lynker

Lynker is a growing, employee owned, small business, specializing in professional, scientific and technical services. Our continually expanding team combines scientific expertise with mature, results-driven processes and tools to achieve technically sound, cost effective solutions in hydrology/water sciences, geospatial analysis, information technology, resource management, conservation, and management and business process improvement.

We focus on putting the right people in the right place to be effective. And having the right people is critical for success. Our streamlined organization enables and empowers our talented professionals to tackle our customers' scientific and technical priorities – creatively and effectively.

Lynker offers a team-oriented work environment, and the opportunity to work in a culture of exceptionally skilled and diverse professionals who embrace sound science and creative solutions. Lynker's benefits include the following:

Comprehensive healthcare for the employee at no monthly cost
Healthcare benefit covers medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision
Personal Time Off (PTO) Policy plus paid holidays
Highly competitive compensation plan regularly calibrated against industry and location benchmarks
401(k) retirement plan with company-matching
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – we're all company owners!
Flexible spending accounts
Employee assistance program (EAP)
Short- and long-term disability insurance
Life and accident insurance
Tuition assistance/Training/Workforce improvement reimbursement per year
Spot bonuses for exceptional performance
Annual Employee Recognition Awards with bonuses
Employee Referral Program
Free centralized, self-directed Learning Management System to learn at your own pace
Personalized career growth plans for every employee

Lynker is an E-Verify employer.

Lynker is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply.