DevOps Engineer

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to build and support reliable, scalable technology solutions in a fast-paced and collaborative environment? As a DevOps Engineer, you will work closely with IT, development teams, and technology stakeholders to maintain, develop, and support Proto Labs’ internal and external business applications. You will play a key role in improving deployment reliability, automation, availability, and operational efficiency.

• Manage and support the provisioning, installation, configuration, operation, and maintenance of enterprise infrastructure and application environments.
• Maintain and support version control systems, build tools, and continuous integration and deployment tools.
• Work closely with development teams to support applications and promote Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
• Support server configuration management and infrastructure automation.

• Identify opportunities to improve deployment dependability and reduce manual intervention through automation.
• Automate manual processes to improve operational efficiency, consistency, and reliability.
• Support code releases into highly available application environments.
• Contribute to continuous deployment practices using tools such as Azure DevOps and GitHub.

• Design and support high-availability solutions, including load balancer configurations.
• Support highly available applications and help improve system reliability and resilience.
• Work with development and technology teams to identify and resolve operational and deployment challenges.
• Participate in 24x7 coverage for the area of responsibility, including occasional after-hours support and on-call duties.

• Support cloud infrastructure and application environments across AWS and Azure.
• Work with microservices-based environments and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure using configuration management and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Ansible and Terraform.

• 3+ years of experience managing servers in an enterprise environment.
• 2+ years of experience supporting code releases into highly available applications.
• 1+ years of experience supporting server configuration management tools.
• 1+ years of experience supporting highly available applications.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, automation, deployment, infrastructure, and application reliability practices.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
• Experience with continuous deployment tools such as Azure DevOps and GitHub.
• Hands-on experience with Git and code versioning.
• Experience with HAProxy or similar load-balancing technologies.
• Knowledge of JSON/REST.
• Experience working with Kubernetes and microservices environments.
• Knowledge of Linux OS hardening and security.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.

• Ability to identify manual or repetitive processes and automate them effectively.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills with a focus on system reliability and operational efficiency.
• Ability to work collaboratively with development, IT, and other technology stakeholders.

• Strong ownership and accountability for infrastructure and application reliability.
• Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on automation and reducing manual intervention.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative, and technology-driven environment.
• Willingness to participate in after-hours support and on-call responsibilities when required.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of relevant experience managing enterprise servers and infrastructure.