Company Description

Pitch Aeronautics (www.pitchaero.com) is a rapidly growing startup creating game-changing solutions for the utility industry. Pitch has developed a drone to install our line sensor, bird diverters, and other equipment on power lines. Our drone-deployable line sensors wirelessly transmit environmental and line characteristics to an intuitive software tool to help utilities push more power through existing lines, prevent wildfires, and improve grid reliability. We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our team and ensure reliable software deployment and continuous delivery for our platform that ingests and processes real-time weather data from field sensors and gridded forecasts. This data provides critical insights to optimize operations in electric transmission.

At Pitch we’ve fostered a collaborative, fun, “get-stuff-done” working environment. We believe in moving fast and creating products and prototypes rapidly. If you’re looking for a place where you can make a difference on day one, be empowered to achieve, and love working in small teams, we want to meet you!

Learn more about our company at:

-Our website: https://www.pitchaero.com/

-Our Linked-In posts: https://www.linkedin.com/company/11764600/

-Our Facebook posts: https://www.facebook.com/pitchaero

-Here's a video of our drone performing a sensor installation on an energized power line: https://youtu.be/S9F0jz4eqNY?feature=shared

-Here’s a video of our drone installing bird diverters: https://youtu.be/mTbAWDBN4fk

Role Description

This is a part-time (3-6 week), on-site (in our Boise, ID office) role for a DevOps Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for building and managing CI/CD pipelines, automating software deployments, monitoring system performance, and ensuring high availability and scalability of our AWS-based infrastructure. You’ll manage infrastructure as code, maintain Dockerized environments, optimize the performance of PostgreSQL databases, and configure NGINX for traffic management. Collaboration with software developers is essential to improve workflows, debug deployment issues, and introduce best practices for system security and reliability.

Additionally, you will oversee the integration of cloud services to support data ingestion, storage, and computational workflows that improve electric transmission operations and provides valuable analytics for customers. This role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud and ML technologies and have a direct impact on critical infrastructure solutions.

If you're passionate about cloud infrastructure, automation, and contributing to impactful software that helps improve electric transmission systems, we'd love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Automate software deployments
• Build and manage cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability of services.
• Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot production systems, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Develop and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) to automate provisioning and deployment of resources.
• maintain Dockerized environments
• Optimize the performance of PostgreSQL databases
• Configure NGINX for traffic management

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of DevOps experience
• Strong Knowledge of Java, Spring, and Maven: Familiarity with deploying and managing Java-based applications using the Spring framework and Maven for build automation.
• Database Management Skills: Experience with PostgreSQL, including optimization, scaling, and backup strategies in a production environment.
• Experience in Cloud Infrastructure (AWS preferred): Proven ability to design, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud architectures, including experience with services like EC2, RDS, S3, and CloudFormation.
• Proficiency in Automation and CI/CD Tools: Expertise in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Collaboration and Problem-Solving Skills: Strong ability to collaborate with developers and cross-functional teams, as well as troubleshooting skills to diagnose and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues.
• Monitoring and Logging: Experience with cloud monitoring solutions such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack for proactive monitoring and performance management.
• Security Best Practices: Knowledge of security protocols, encryption, IAM roles, and securing data in transit and at rest, especially in cloud environments.

Desired Qualifications

• Containerization and Orchestration: Experience with Docker for containerizing applications and familiarity with orchestration tools like Kubernetes or AWS ECS/EKS.
• Understanding of Web Servers and Load Balancers: Knowledge of NGINX for traffic management, load balancing, and performance tuning.