DevOps Engineer

About GIST Impact

GIST Impact is a leading impact data, analytics and product solutions provider that has been measuring, quantifying and valuing corporate impacts for more than 16 years.

With a team of 100+ scientists, engineers, data scientists and environmental economists, GIST Impact delivers market-leading impact platforms and datasets, covering 15,000+ companies with geographically precise, time-series data.

GIST Impact works with pioneering companies across all sectors and with investors representing over $8 trillion in assets under management. GIST Impact also partners with some of the world's largest ESG data providers, business networks, and fintech platforms to enable impact measurement across global markets.

Founded by Pavan Sukhdev (ex-banker, environmental economist, President of WWF International, and winner of the 2020 Tyler Prize for the Environment), GIST Impact is at the cutting edge of measuring impacts using a scientifically sound and economically rigorous methodology that provides unique and unparalleled insight into how companies impact society and the environment. In addition, our leadership team comprises product, technology and commercial leaders who have worked across Meta, Adobe, AT Kearney, McKinsey,, Monitor Deloitte, etc.

Role Description:

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to develop and support integrated automation solutions. This individual will work in a team setting, working to create & maintain CI/CD pipelines, troubleshoot, enhance & manage our software delivery pipelines, manage our cloud infrastructure and create tooling to streamline and enhance the current automation workflows and help build new workflows for next-generation solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Be the main point of contact for our team for Cloud and Infrastructure management
• Develop, enhance and manage deployment automation pipelines implementing
• DevOps best practices
• Manage cloud infrastructure platforms
• Identify the scope of enhancements to our infrastructure and automation pipelines
• Assist in automating in-house processes
• Configuration Management for Cloud-based infrastructure
• Manage and design deployment processes implementing cloud infrastructure security

Requirements:

• 3+ years of well-rounded experience as a DevOps engineer
• Experience in software development for cloud-based applications and container-based solutions (Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes)
• Computer Science degree or relevant experience in Software Development
• Experience handling large data sets
• Cloud management experience (primarily AWS and Azure)
• Setup and management of databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), database services, virtual machines, virtual networks, IAM policies
• Comfortable with VCS GitHub and GitOps
• Experience in software development preferably in Java or Python preferred
• Experience in using Linux systems, and bash scripting
• Experience in automating software and deployment environments for CI/CD.
• Experience working together with teams from several departments
• Understanding of best practices regarding system architecture, design, security, throughput, availability and scalability