Description
Digital Control Incorporated (DCI) is the world’s leading supplier of underground locating and steering products for the horizontal directional drilling (HDD) industry. Since the introduction of this revolutionary technology 30 years ago, Digital Control has been at the forefront of trenchless technologies that enable the efficient installation of underground utilities such as fiber optic, telecom, gas, and water lines world-wide. DCI’s products are valued for their durable design, ease of use and uncompromising commitment to customer service.
DCI is seeking a DevOps Engineer in Kent, WA to collaborate with the development team and help drive our DevOps initiatives. If you are passionate about automation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and efficiency of cloud-based systems, then DCI could be a perfect fit for you!
What you’ll do:
You’ll work closely with our development and IT groups to build and maintain solutions that help our customers collect and share data worldwide:
- Design and implement DevOps infrastructure projects in collaboration with the development team
- Build and deploy automation, monitoring, and analysis solutions
- Research, implement, and maintain security measures and practices to help protect infrastructure, applications, and data
- Monitoring and validation of backups for essential services and data
- Continuously evaluate existing systems and make recommendations for improvement, including situations where infrastructure services are being retired
- Second-level troubleshooting of customer issues
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of professional experience as a DevOps Engineer
- Strong understanding of Azure services and tools
- Familiarity with continuous integration tools (e.g., Jenkins)
- Experience with automation tooling (e.g., Terraform, Terragrunt)
- Experience with version control software (e.g., Git, Perforce)
- Understanding of monitoring tools
- Experience with Jenkins, Terraform, Terragrunt, Git, and Perforce is highly desired
- Familiarity with deployment of applications to the Apple App Store and Google Play is a plus
Who you are:
- Self-motivated with excellent time management and organizational skills
- Strong communicator, both written and oral, that is able to collaborate with multiple groups within the company
- Committed to driving to goals and milestones while maintaining a strong attention to detail
- Analytical thinker with excellent judgment and problem-solving skills
If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement, we encourage you to still apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or another role at DCI.
Benefits
- Unparalleled health benefits (PPO plan with no deductibles, no co-pays, DCI covers 99% of costs)
- Quarterly bonuses: we all share in the success of the company
- Professional development
- 401k match (3% match from DCI regardless of participation, 5% maximum match, 100% vested immediately)
- 22 days PTO
- Parental leave
- Company covers 100% of payroll taxes for state family medical leave
- 11 annual paid holidays plus 1 floating holiday
- Winter break (we are closed the last week of each year)
- See more benefits information here.
Compensation:
- DCI is proud to offer comprehensive compensation packages including competitive base pay and discretionary quarterly profit sharing bonuses to all part-time and full-time team members. Base pay is reviewed at a minimum on an annual basis.
- Pay range: $134,700.00 - $167,800.00 per year. To ensure equity, our compensation philosophy is to bring people into new roles in the range of the mid-point of that role. Factors considered for pay include the level of skill, experience, training, external market factors, and internal value.
- Profit sharing bonus: Over the last 3 years, quarterly bonuses ranged between 11% and 27%. Future bonuses could be higher or lower depending on company profits.
Why DCI?
Work hard, play often... DCI employees are innovative and creative. Our open (forest-like) work environment creates free flowing conversations across all functions. We have gaming days; Lego challenges and ping pong matches to build on our creativity when one hits a roadblock. If that is not enough, our employees bring their four-legged companions (dogs) to work and can take them for a walk around the Green River trail. DCI takes pride in caring a lot about our employees. We believe that employees should not be burdened with benefits expenses, so we provide lucrative health care plans unmatched in most other companies.
We also like to eat at DCI and find any excuse to celebrate the most random holidays (Pi Day, Chocolate Ice Cream Day, etc.) We have monthly catered lunches, a fully stocked snack area, sporting tickets, wellness competitions, and most importantly a team of people who will tell you that DCI is the best place they've ever worked. This is evident by our long service team and low turnover.
We Celebrate Inclusion:
DCI is an equal opportunity employer. Employment at DCI is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. DCI does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law.It is DCI’s policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity.
The Company's EEO policy includes the full & complete support of the Company and all levels of leadership. Because it's just the right thing to do. We hope you think so too.
