Lead DevOps Engineer - Remote Opportunity (Architecture)
We are looking for an outstanding DevOps Engineer who can help lead our Continuous Integration
and Continuous Delivery systems. This individual must embrace every opportunity to automate and
enhance existing processes of all our application instances. This individual will provide leadership
and must have the communication skills to influence management in initiatives that will help provide
business value. The ideal candidate is process-oriented, and always trying to expand their skills to
include new tools and approaches.
On any given day this individual will be spinning up new instances of an app, working on tasks
related to CI/CD. They will provide support to technical resources and development, work on root
cause analysis and prevention.
This individual will assist us in Logging, Auditing, Metrics, Alerting, Backups, Queuing, Clustering,
Disaster Recovery, Documentation and other Dev Operation initiatives to assist the organization in
adding business value where appropriate. Keeps production systems working and ensures top level
performance for all systems. Evaluates growth and is forward thinking to ensure proper scalability of
all systems.
This individual will be leading a small team and set the tasks and direction of other team members.
About Mode Transportation and the Team
Mode Transportation is an industry-leading, full-service, transportation logistics provider that
operates through a network of sales, operations, and capacity specialists. We are a billion dollar
company with over 200 independently owned and operated agent offices across the U.S. and
Canada. We focus on providing asset and non-asset surface transportation to a wide range of enduse markets, including food, lumber, paper, printing, textiles, electronics, machinery, government,
and more.
The Application Development Group is in the midst of an ambitious program to create best in breed
software products and improve existing systems for our user base. Our team of Business Analysts
and Developers share a culture of self-ownership and open communication to provide maximum
business value. We strive to ensure team-based component ownership, development, and quality
assurance. We are a tight knit group that relies on ability and flexibility to ensure we balance our
strides towards improved process and need to meet the priorities of a heavily used enterprise
system. The Application Development Group focuses on a culture of open communication, learning,
and transparency.
DevOps Engineer - Developer Focused
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Design, implement, monitor, and improve software development team CI/CD pipeline
• Architect solution to ensure end-to-end observability of application components to support
application optimization, defects resolution, and outages
• Support development team on identify load bottlenecks and provide recommendation for
application and database optimization
• Support QA team to automate end to end visual regression, integration, and load testing to
be included as part of CI/CD
• Provide tools to support and observability to worker jobs automation
• Ensure application level stability and overall system health, set up system health and
integration monitoring with actionable alerts to support automated system self recovery
• Create/implement/maintain logging solution
• Maintain environment setup scripts
• Research technology to automate and optimize any existing development workflow
Qualifications and Requirements:
• Minimum of 4+ years of full-time DevOps experience
• In-depth knowledge of AWS technology stack. EC2 / RDS
• Experience with design and implementation of CI/CD pipeline with git
• Experience working with container technologies
• Understanding and implemented zero downtime deployment
• Demonstrated ability to explain technical issues clearly and accurately to both technical and
non-technical audiences
Mode Transportation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against qualified
applicants with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, handicap, sexual orientation
or veteran status
