Description
Development Operations Engineer
Oklahoma Data Exchange seeks a Development Operations Engineer to help optimize, secure, and scale our database, API, and web application infrastructure.
Founded in 2025, Oklahoma Data Exchange (ODX) works with governmental and nonprofit organizations to build human and technical capacity to share, link, and understand critical data across the systems that serve Oklahomans.
Role Overview
Reporting directly to the Lead Data Engineer, this role focuses on improving system reliability, observability, and security, while supporting ongoing application development and data initiatives. This will include assessing the appropriate level of self-hosting for our needs and implementing changes in collaboration with the engineering team.
The ideal candidate for the DevOps Engineer position brings a strong background in cloud and self-hosted infrastructure, security best practices, open-source DevOps tooling, and is comfortable working across the full stack of modern infrastructure.
Duties and Responsibilities
You will help design, migrate, optimize, and maintain infrastructure components, including:
Server Management
- Server and environment configuration and management, using tools such as NGINX, Puma, or similar
- Implementation of backups, redundancy, retention, and reliability best practices
- Application and infrastructure monitoring
Cloud and Self-Hosted Infrastructure
- Database architecture, setup, tuning, and optimization
- Development and implementation of self-hosted, virtualized, or dedicated environments
- Hardware maintenance, including managing large storage arrays
- File storage systems
Containers & Deployment
- Containerization using Docker
- Orchestration and deployment using tools such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm/Compose, Capistrano, and/or Kamal
Programming & Scripting
- Background workers and job processing systems
- Scheduled tasks and batch processing at varying scales
Security & Networking
- API and database security hardening
- Implementation of cybersecurity best practices and secure system design
- Develop collaboration and security protocols for external partners
- Database audit logging and compliance solutions
Automation & Observability
- Anomaly detection and alerting systems
- Automated database backups and disaster recovery workflows
- Logging and monitoring for security, auditability, and troubleshooting
- Infrastructure-as-Code practices using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar
Benefits and Compensation
- Starting salary range for this position is $110,000 to $120,000, commensurate with experience
- Benefits package that includes 100% of employee coverage for medical, dental, vision plan
- Retirement savings plan with a safe harbor match at 5% of salary
- Fully remote work, stipend for work-from-home expenses, and flexible schedules
- Generous vacation leave and paid holidays
- Professional development opportunities
To Apply: Submit a cover letter and resume to jobs@okdataexchange.org, or apply here through the OKCNP job board. Please include the job title in the subject line.
Requirements
Qualifications
- Experience as a Development Operations Engineer, Data Engineer, or relevant role, with a minimum of 5 years of experience
- Proficiency in scripting languages like Linux bash/shell
- Demonstrated experience with CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and monitoring and logging tools
- Familiarity with security best practices and implementation
- Solid understanding of both cloud and self-hosted infrastructure
