CTA is seeking a talented DevOps engineer to work on the modernization of one of the most critical data systems in progressive politics. CTA is undertaking work with a key progressive organization to completely rebuild key infrastructure. As the infrastructure engineer of this ground-floor initiative, you will play a central role in rebuilding a piece of data infrastructure central to the progressive ecosystem. This career-defining opportunity offers the chance to shape a high-impact project from the ground up, leveraging modern data technologies and DevOps practices. You’ll work within the supportive framework of an established, mission-driven organization with a history of delivering transformative solutions.
As an infrastructure and reliability engineer, you’ll lead operations work, partnering with our engineering team to find scalable, repeatable, and secure solutions to complex technical challenges. You’ll partner closely with technical leadership and the client to ensure we implement observability, reliability, security, and resiliency in a greenfield environment. You’ll help us through the occasional outage and help us understand how always to improve detection and resilience.
About us
Community Tech Alliance is a group of progressive technologists and strategists formed to provide data infrastructure building blocks to the progressive ecosystem at a low cost. CTA seeks to uplevel program impact by unlocking the potential of data, using software and data engineering, and removing the barriers to entry. We are a small team of engineers, data practitioners, product managers, and strategists looking to create infrastructure for progressive change.
Community Tech Alliance believes strongly that:
Inclusive teams are strongest, and supportive work environments take investment, intentionality, and openness
Empathy is the cornerstone of building smart technology solutions
All team members should take ownership of the project and team’s development
Iteration is key, and smart solutions require action not perfection
Nothing great has been built without making mistakes and learning from them
Community Tech Alliance - Progressive data and technology infrastructure for social good.
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