DevOps Automation Engineer

About The Job

CircleCI is seeking a Fractional Engineer to help build and maintain our benchmarking automation.

In this role you’ll work closely with our PMM Team and technical leadership to craft, maintain and update a script-based program of benchmarking across common CI/CD tools. You will then share these results and work with the PMM Team to ensure they can be meaningfully consumed by company stakeholders.

This role will begin as a one year contract with the option to renew using the following schedule.

• 80 hours allocated for the first two weeks
• 20 hours allocated per subsequent quarter (August, November, February) to refresh, maintain or adjust this work.

This is an independent role, which means you will be a team of one. As a result, outside of set meetings with your supervisors, you will be able to manage your own time and work schedule.

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Core Skills Required

• Experience doing basic infrastructure spin up/spin down with AWS
• Experience using Python (or Go) to write automation (sample requested)
• Experience working with REST APIs to set up automation (samples required)
• Experience configuring CI systems in tools such as GHA, Gitlab, CircleCI, etc
• Track record of working independently with on-time delivery.

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Key Responsibility

Designing and executing automated performance testing scripts for specified CI/CD workflows in specified CI/CD tools including collection of relevant performance metrics.

Then maintaining and altering these to adapt to changes in the tech, understanding and competitive landscape in subsequent once-quarterly check-ins.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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About CircleCI

CircleCI is the world’s largest continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, and the hub where code moves from idea to delivery. As one of the most-used DevOps tools - processing more than 3 million jobs a day - CircleCI has unique access to data on how the most effective engineering teams work, and the tools to help software companies successfully leverage the power of AI into their commercial applications. Companies like Hinge, HuggingFace, and Samsung use us to improve engineering team productivity, release better products, and get to market faster.

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a global, remote workforce, CircleCI is venture-backed by Base10, Greenspring Associates, Eleven Prime, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, Baseline Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Owl Rock Capital, Next Equity Partners, Heavybit, and Harrison Metal Capital.

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