DevOps Engineer

Company: AgFunder
Location: Hayward
Posted on: November 15, 2022

Job Description:

Verdant Robotics is revolutionizing agriculture via robotics and AI. Our core technology empowers farmers to grow more profitable food while using less inputs. We use computer vision and machine learning to understand every part of every plant at a massive scale - and with automated robotics, we close the loop and act on that information in real-time. Together with our farming partners we are building healthy, sustainable and highly productive farms.
Our office is located in Hayward, CA about a 25-30 minute average commute from most places in the Bay Area. We offer competitive pay and a great team environment.
We are currently looking for an innovative and experienced DevOps Engineer who is passionate about robotics and sustainable agriculture to help architect, build and operate the IT infrastructure and modern software tools for developing mobile robot systems. You will work on a multidisciplinary, growing team to develop state-of-the-art hardware to push the performance envelope and expand horizons.



About You:

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  • You find large challenges exciting, and you enjoy defining problems just as much as solving them.
    
  • You have a hands-on style, with excellent organizational and communication skills.
    
  • You have a demonstrated ability to work well in a fast-paced, interdisciplinary environment.
    
  • You are responsible and accountable for your results, working with considerable autonomy, but also know when to ask for assistance.
    
  • You are proactive, enthusiastic, flexible, and adaptable; no task is too big or too small.
    
  • You are inspired by invention and like the idea of seeing your work impacting the bigger picture.
    
  • You are highly competitive and passionate about solving hard technical problems.
    
  • You are a strategic thinker who finds innovative ways to facilitate team/project success and manage product risk while balancing resources for on-time deliverables.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    What You Will Do:
    
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      • Architect the development environment including scalable infrastructure and innovative frameworks to build, test and deploy our system software.
        
      • Support the continuous improvement of our development landscape and bring in new innovative approaches to boost the effectiveness and efficiency of our SW engineers.
        
      • Consult our R&D teams, including the development of specialized R&D infrastructure.
        
      • Automate all relevant steps from writing code to shipping software to our test vehicles.
        
      • Promote solid software-development practices.
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        Desired Qualifications:
        
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          • At least a Bachelor degree in CS, CE, E/E or comparable
            
          • Minimum 3-4, preferably 5+ years of experience in DevOps or comparable field providing you with: expert Linux skills, Jenkins expertise, identifying why a Jenkins build is broken, solid understanding in Python, Bash and Ansible (or Chef/Puppet) scripting
            
          • Software development processes knowledge including: ability to use git, experience working with software development teams doing DevOps, Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment, Jenkins preferred, build systems including package & dependency management (cmake preferred), hands-on experience in agile methodologies
            
          • Infrastructure knowledge including: experience with data centers, managing heterogeneous servers, storage experience (NAS, SAN, RAID, ---), Docker infrastructure, basic AWS expertise
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            Preferable Skills:
            
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              • Embedded Linux, stability and performance
                
              • Using the Atlassian tool (Jira, Confluence) chain in a professional environment
                
              • Setting up and operating large scale software development projects and its underlying infrastructure/tooling architecture
                
              • Customer focused working style and communication skills
                
              • Understanding of the technology enabling self-driving vehicles and/or robotics
                
                
                
                
                
                
                Verdant Robotics provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
                
                
                
                
                

Keywords: AgFunder, Hayward , DevOps Engineer, Engineering , Hayward, California