
Website GroundControl
Position Overview
The Founding Cloud Operations Engineer will grow with our organization and actively learn alongside the CTO; improving our infrastructure, security and operations as we scale.
What You’ll Do
- Infrastructure Operations: Incrementally improve stability, security and maintainability of our cloud environments.
- Incident Response: Participate in on-call rotation for incident response and security event monitoring.
- Change Management: For compliance, we must track changes to infrastructure through a chance management system.
- Security Advocate: The weakest link in any security system are it’s people. Being a consistent advocate for strong security practices improves the posture of the whole company.
- ‘DevOps’ Practices: Maintain and optimize our CI/CD system, and contribute to internal tooling
- Customer Interactions: You will regularly interact with IT teams from our customers to provide support, or for enterprise customers help deploy into their network
Need to Have
- Strong experience with Cloud Service Providers, Terraform, Docker, Github Actions, SQL Databases, Enterprise Networking
- A Relevant degree or program in software/computer engineering or a security-related field
Nice to Have
- Past experience as an SRE, SOC or other related role
- Experience in IT customer support
- Web Development experience
What We Value
Technical Excellence
You are highly skilled technically, and have an innate knack for system design. You can quickly pick-up new technologies and infer inner workings from your knowledge of other systems.
Extreme Ownership
You will talk directly with customers from needs, to design, to production systems. You shouldn’t be afraid to own your decisions and any mistakes you may make.
Low Ego, High Impact
We value humility and collaboration over ego. Team members bring strong ideas but are open to feedback and new perspectives, focusing on the best outcomes for the company and our customers. Strong opinions, held loosely.
Customer Obsession
All decisions should come directly from listening to customers. Understand their needs and pain points, and make decisions that will benefit the end user.Why Join?
About GroundControl
GroundControl is a vertical SaaS company solving hidden inefficiencies in highly-regulated manufacturing. Our first product empowers manufacturers to produce high-quality parts for the most advanced aerospace & defense platforms, from SpaceX rockets and Boeing 777s to next-gen fighter jets and missile systems.
This is not a vision for the future. We are live and operational in manufacturers across the US, automating 1000s of reports and growing rapidly.
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