Staff DevOps Engineer

The Company

Dexcom Corporation (NASDAQ DXCM) is a pioneer and global leader in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Dexcom began as a small company with a big dream: To forever change how diabetes is managed. To unlock information and insights that drive better health outcomes. Here we are 25 years later, having pioneered an industry. And we're just getting started. We are broadening our vision beyond diabetes to empower people to take control of health. That means personalized, actionable insights aimed at solving important health challenges. To continue what we've started: Improving human health.

We are driven by thousands of ambitious, passionate people worldwide who are willing to fight like warriors to earn the trust of our customers by listening, serving with integrity, thinking big, and being dependable. We've already changed millions of lives and we're ready to change millions more. Our future ambition is to become a leading consumer health technology company while continuing to develop solutions for serious health conditions. We'll get there by constantly reinventing unique biosensing-technology experiences. Though we've come a long way from our small company days, our dreams are bigger than ever. The opportunity to improve health on a global scale stands before us.

Meet the team:

The IT Cloud Platform Services teams is a dynamic mix of tech enthusiasts, problem solvers, and creative thinkers, united by our passion for leveraging cutting-edge technology to transform healthcare and empower our customers to take real-time control of their health.

Where you come in:

As a Staff DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in our dynamic team, contributing to the management, operation, and optimization of our GCP, AWS, and Azure cloud infrastructure. Your expertise will help us achieve seamless deployment, automation, and monitoring of our services.

You will:

• Implement and Manage Infrastructure: Utilize Terraform to define and provision our GCP infrastructure, ensuring it is scalable, reliable, and cost-effective.
• Automate Configuration Management: Use Ansible to automate the configuration and management of our systems, improving efficiency and reducing the risk of manual errors.
• Monitor and Optimize Performance: Leverage DataDog to monitor system performance and application metrics, identifying and resolving issues before they impact our users.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with software engineers, QA, and operations teams to ensure smooth integration and delivery of our applications.
• Innovate and Improve: Continuously explore and implement new tools and practices to enhance our DevOps processes and improve overall system reliability and performance.
• Your role will be essential in supporting our mission to deliver high-quality, reliable services to our customers. If you are passionate about cloud technologies, automation, and continuous improvement, we want to hear from you!

Your duties typically include:

• Leading Implementation of Solutions: You will collaborate with architects and engineers to build robust and scalable architectures on GCP to support the organization's applications and services. This involves understanding business requirements; complex, multi-cloud and facility networking and interconnects; evaluating cloud services across GCP, Azure, and AWS; and designing solutions that meet performance, reliability, and cost requirements.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Implementing Infrastructure as Code practices using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Google Cloud Deployment Manager to automate the provisioning and management of resources across our cloud platforms.
• Serverless Technologies: You will leverage serverless technologies to build scalable and cost-effective solutions. This includes implementing serverless architectures using tools like Google Cloud Functions and AWS Lambda, optimizing serverless workflows, and ensuring seamless integration with other cloud services.
• Expertise in GKE and Kubernetes: You will demonstrate expertise in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Kubernetes, helping the team design and implement a containerization strategy, and manage containerized platforms to ensure high availability and scalability. This includes configuring and optimizing GKE clusters, implementing best practices for Kubernetes management, and troubleshooting issues within the Kubernetes environment.
• Cloud Networking and Security at the Edge: You will implement secure and efficient cloud networking solutions. This includes configuring virtual networks, managing network security groups, implementing cloud firewalls, and ensuring compliance with security standards. You will also be responsible for monitoring and optimizing network performance, troubleshooting network issues, and collaborating with security teams to ensure robust security measures are in place.
• Performance, FinOps, and Cost Optimization: Continuously monitoring and optimizing the performance of cloud systems to ensure optimal resource utilization, scalability, and reliability. Identify and report on bottlenecks, wasted resources, and expenditures; tune configurations; and implement best practices to improve system performance in a financially responsible manner.
• Security and Compliance: Implementing security best practices and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and standards (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR) in cloud environments. This involves configuring identity and access management, network security, encryption, and auditing/logging solutions to protect data and resources.
• Collaboration and Documentation: Collaborating with cross-functional teams including developers, operations, and security teams, to ensure alignment on architecture decisions and implementation strategies. Documenting design decisions, configurations, and procedures to facilitate knowledge sharing and future troubleshooting.
• Overall, as a Staff DevOps Engineer who specializes in GCP, your role is crucial in maintaining reliable, scalable, and secure cloud-based systems that enable the organization to leverage the full potential of our cloud platforms.

What makes you successful:

• You have a good understanding of cloud principles and services. Experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Azure is required.
• Your understanding of Terraform allows you to define and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) efficiently. Experience with Terraform Cloud or similar is preferred.
• You provide technical leadership and work direction to junior staff, including both project and operational activities
• You are familiar with using Ansible or other CM tools for configuration management and automation.
• Your experience with DataDog or other observability platforms enables you to effectively monitor and optimize system performance.
• You possess a solid foundation in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or similar.
• You bring excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues.
• Your collaborative mindset and effective communication skills allows you to work seamlessly with cross-functional teams.
• Your documentation hygiene is impeccable, reflecting your understanding that knowledge is better when shared
• You are committed to continuous learning and staying updated with the latest Cloud Platform tools and practices.

Nice to have:

• Familiarity or experience with FOCUS, GenAI and associated technologies

Experience and Education Requirements:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline, and a minimum of 8-12 years related experience or Master’s degree and 5-7 years equivalent industry experience or a PhD and 2-4 years of experience.

Remote Workplace: Your location will be a home office; you are not required to live within commuting distance of your assigned Dexcom site (typically 75 miles/120km). If you reside within commuting distance of a Dexcom site (typically 75 miles/120km) a hybrid working environment may be available. Ask about our Flex workplace option.

Please note: The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Management may, at its discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. The duties and responsibilities in this job description may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable ind