Cloud DevOps Engineer (GCP)

The application period will close on April 4th. Please note that if we receive a high volume of qualified applicants, the posting may close sooner, so we encourage candidates to submit their applications as soon as possible.

About the Company
Global Fishing Watch is an international, nonprofit organization committed to advancing ocean governance through increased transparency of human activity at sea. By creating and publicly sharing map visualizations, data and analysis tools, we aim to enable scientific research and transform the way our ocean is managed.

Founded in 2015 through a collaboration between Oceana, SkyTruth and Google, Global Fishing Watch became an independent nonprofit organization in June 2017. Our major focus is on commercial fishing because it is the most widespread human activity at sea, the most impactful on ocean health, and the most crucial for global livelihoods and food security. By 2030, we aim to monitor and visualize the impact of ocean-going vessels, both industrial and small-scale, that are responsible for the vast majority of the global seafood catch. We believe human activity at sea should be common knowledge in order to safeguard the global ocean commons for the common good of all.

The Position

Global Fishing Watch (GFW) started its journey almost 10 years ago with the release of the first global dataset of fishing based on public vessel tracking data. Since then, we have not only created tools for users to make that dataset actionable through an online platform and APIs, but we have continued to expand our data products. Google is a funding partner of GFW, and consequently, GFW uses the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as our Cloud provider. We use a variety of GCP services, for both software engineering and data science.

From a team of 5 data researchers and software engineers, we have expanded to an organization of ~150 with dedicated teams, including Research, Engineering, Data, and Product. The Cloud DevOps and Software Engineer will play a key role in making our engineering team and research team more efficient and our GCP projects more secure.

We are looking for a person with cloud DevOps experience. The person will require well-developed analytical and troubleshooting skills, an eagerness to continuously learn about new services in the cloud and how to apply them to make GFW more cost-effective and robust, a problem-solving mindset, and a great team player.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities Include:

Cloud-Dev-Ops

• Make sure all cloud project budgets are below the limit.
• Fix security vulnerabilities directly or coordinate with different resource owners.
• Continuous clean-up of cloud project resources.
• Ensure both the research and engineering teams follow Cloud best practices.
• Jointly with the CTO and Cloud Security Engineer, keep the Cloud best practices up to date.
• Work jointly with the Data Team to ensure public resources have the corresponding documentation.
• Create and configure resources for different users using Terraform.
• Bring ideas of how to improve and make the entire cloud setup more efficient.

Cloud-Dev-Ops Communication

• Create dashboards to help the different cloud project owners easily understand compute costs.
• Create dashboards with metrics to track incidents and vulnerabilities.
• Send periodic updates about the Cloud status to the team.

Ad-hoc Support to Research and Engineering

• Provide support to both the Research and Engineering teams for ad-hoc scripting needs.

Job Requirements

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Significant software development/programming experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role.
• Experience working in agile software development teams.
• Experience working with Docker.
• Experience creating and managing infrastructure with Terraform.
• Experience working with Cloud technologies, specifically GCP.
• Expertise in scripting languages (Shell, Python).
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
• Team player, willing to work with and learn from the GFW team.
• Intellectually curious and forward-thinking.

Location: This is a remote role, but candidates must be legally authorized and based in Canada, United States, or select European countries.

Employment Type: Fixed Term

Compensation: A compensation range for this position is based on the candidate’s country of residence.

Equal opportunities: Global Fishing Watch is an equal opportunities employer.