DevOps Engineer (East Coast)

VAST Data is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our growing team!

Due to the nature of this role involving active engagement with government contracts and sensitive information, U.S. citizenship is required to ensure compliance with legal and security clearance obligations.



This is a great opportunity to be part of one of the fastest-growing infrastructure companies in history, an organization that is in the center of the hurricane being created by the revolution in artificial intelligence.

"VAST's data management vision is the future of the market."- Forbes

VAST Data is the data platform company for the AI era. We are building the enterprise software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and protect massive datasets and make them available for real-time data analysis and AI training and inference. Designed from the ground up to make AI simple to deploy and manage, VAST takes the cost and complexity out of deploying enterprise and AI infrastructure across data center, edge, and cloud.

Our success has been built through intense innovation, a customer-first mentality and a team of fearless VASTronauts who leverage their skills & experiences to make real market impact. This is an opportunity to be a key contributor at a pivotal time in our company’s growth and at a pivotal point in computing history.

The DevOps Engineer position is a sales engineering operations role and is an integrated part of our sales team. You will be responsible for developing software and infrastructure to improve the efficiency of our Sales Engineering team. If you are a DevOps Engineer that is passionate about automating and scaling everything, this job is for you.



Responsibilities:

• Develop and improve internal toolsets that directly support the Sales Engineers, improving their ability to quickly deliver VAST value to our customers.
• Automate tasks involved in the VAST sales and delivery process.
• Manage infrastructure supporting critical web-based applications.
• Maintain infrastructure supporting Docker-based applications.
• Develop and maintain internal and external facing applications built on various technologies such as Node.JS, Angular, SCSS, GraphQL, MongoDB, Docker, AWS ECS (and related services such as S3, ALB, EC2, SSM, etc.).

• Experience with managing AWS infrastructure and services such as ECR, ECS, ALB, S3, EC2
• Experience with software development practices and at least one programming language (JavaScript is preferred, but not required)
• Linux/Unix/Windows shell scripting experience
• Experience with IP-based networking and related technologies / services such as DHCP, DNS, multicast, VLANs, LACP, IP subnetting, and routing protocols.
• Experience writing technical documentation, both for internal engineers and external customers
• Experience in developing, integrating, or utilizing AI-driven agents for code generation, testing, or infrastructure automation.

Nice To Have Skills:

• Experience with code repository systems such as GitLab
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and infrastructure automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
• Experience with web-based technologies such as HTML, CSS, WebSockets, REST APIs, SOAP, XML, JSON
• Understanding of common web-application frameworks such as Angular, React.JS, Bootstrap