Ascode

Location: Northern Virginia (Hybrid)

Position Type: Full-Time

Position Overview

We are seeking a motivated, detail-oriented Engineer with 1–3 years of technical experience to join our team. In this role, you will play a key part in bridging our on-premises virtualization infrastructure and cloud environments. You will work to automate deployments, ensure infrastructure reliability, maintain robust observability, and support our ongoing compliance efforts. This is an ideal position for a junior-to-mid-level engineer looking to deepen their skills in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), modern CI/CD patterns, and security compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Management: Manage and maintain our hybrid infrastructure, balancing cloud workloads in AWS with on-premises virtualized environments via Proxmox VE.
• CI/CD & Automation: Build, optimize, and maintain automated deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions to support rapid, secure software delivery.
• Identity & Access Control: Administer and audit secure access controls across systems using Microsoft Entra ID and AWS Identity Center.
• Observability & Incident Response: Deploy, configure, and maintain unified logging and monitoring stacks; actively participate in system monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident remediation.
• Compliance & Security: Support the execution and maintenance of technical security controls required for SOC 2 compliance.
• Collaboration & Documentation: Work cross-functionally with QA, Engineering, and Security teams to align infrastructure with operational needs. Author and maintain high-quality internal documentation for configurations, runbooks, and architectures.

Required Qualifications:

• US Citizenship
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field or Engineering discipline.
• Experience: 1–3 years of technical experience in Cloud, Systems, DevOps, or technical QA environments.
• Programming/Scripting: Functional ability in at least one backend or scripting language
• (e.g., Python, Go, C).
• Core Fundamentals:
• -Solid grasp of foundational networking protocols (DNS, HTTP, TCP/IP).
• -Strong Linux system administration basics (Systemd, Bash, basic debugging,
• shell utilities).
• -Familiarity with foundational DevOps principles: Version Control (Git), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and core security mechanics (Encryption, Authentication / Authorization).
• -Baseline exposure to at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Cloud Practitioner or AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• Hands-on experience with Proxmox VE or similar Type-1 hypervisors
• Experience with containerization (Docker)

Benefits

The starting salary range for this role is $60,000-$90,000 commensurate with experience, skills, and qualifications. We offer a standard benefits package that includes comprehensive health insurance, paid company holidays, as well as paid time off (PTO).