Alarm.com
DevOps Engineer
About this role
Alarm.com is hiring a DevOps Engineer in Tysons, Virginia to support and automate enterprise data platforms and messaging infrastructure across hybrid on-premises, Kubernetes, and cloud environments. You'll work with technologies like Kafka, Elasticsearch, Snowflake, and relational databases while collaborating across engineering and infrastructure teams to ensure reliability and scalability.
What you'll do
- Support and automate enterprise data platforms and messaging infrastructure (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Snowflake, Redis, databases)
- Maintain reliability, scalability, and performance of production platforms across hybrid environments
- Develop Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and deployment automation using tools like Terraform and Ansible
- Build and maintain observability capabilities including monitoring, alerting, logging, and telemetry
- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and participate in on-call incident response
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and work with security teams on compliance and access management
What they're looking for
- Kubernetes (especially Azure Kubernetes Service)
- Docker and containerization
- Terraform, Ansible, or similar Infrastructure as Code tools
- Linux systems administration
- Monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus)
- CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Python, Bash, or PowerShell scripting
- Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, or relational databases
Benefits
- Work with high-performing teams and talented engineers
- Immediate real responsibility and empowerment on day one
- Diverse, dynamic environment with exposure to multiple business areas
- Strong collaborative culture emphasizing community and fun
- In-office work 4 days per week
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Alarm.com
Alarm.com builds smart home automation platforms and cloud-based security solutions, including video surveillance and AI analytics systems. The company is hiring DevOps Engineers to manage hybrid infrastructure and data platforms, Software Engineers to develop full-stack home automation features, and Quality Engineers to ensure product reliability across their connected security and smart home ecosystem.
- Website
- alarm.com
Likely interview questions
- Tell us about your experience managing Kafka or other messaging platforms in production—what challenges have you faced?
- How have you approached Infrastructure as Code implementation, and which tools have you found most effective?