DevOps Engineer

Be yourself at Protolabs

Why Protolabs?

We are the leaders in digital manufacturing. We hire doers, makers, and creative thinkers who tackle our roles with an entrepreneurial spirit. Our culture is centered around meaningful work that brings new and innovative products to market at unprecedented speeds. We are a diverse team that comes from all walks of life and take pride in our team who is smart, genuine, humble, and passionate about what we do. It’s our people who fuel our creativity and make our culture feel like home.

Join our team as a DevOps Engineer!

This is a fixed hybrid role on-site Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday at HQ in Maple Plain MN.

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our expanding team. This position will work closely with IT, development, as well as other technology stakeholders to maintain, develop, and support our growing internal and external business applications at Protolabs.

What You'll Do

Part of a team responsible for the effective provisioning, installation, configuration, operation, and maintenance of version control systems, build tools, and continuous integration tools

Work closely with development teams to support applications and promote Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices

Continuously identify ways to improve deployment reliability and reduce the level of manual intervention required

Design and implement high-availability solutions, including load balancer configurations

Participate in 24/7 support coverage for your area of responsibility, including occasional after-hours work and on-call duties.

What It Takes

Bachelor’s degree or 3–5 years of relevant work experience

3+ years of experience managing servers in an enterprise environment

2+ years of experience supporting code releases for highly available applications

1+ year of experience supporting server configuration management tools

1+ year of experience supporting highly available applications

Strong ability to identify manual processes and automate them to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability

Preferred Skills and Technologies:

Configuration Management

Ansible

Terraform

Continuous Deployment

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Load Balancing

HAProxy

API Development and Integration

JSON

REST

Code Versioning

Git

Microservices and Container Orchestration

Kubernetes

Operating Systems and Security

Linux OS hardening and security

Cloud Management

AWS

Azure

What's In It For You?

We offer a competitive salary and annual bonus opportunity

In addition, we offer amazing benefits including but not limited to:

Health Insurance: Traditional OR High Deductible plan

Flexible Spending Accounts

Health Savings Account (including employer contributions)

Dental and Vision

Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

Paid caregiver leave

You will receive at least 3 weeks of PTO + Holiday Pay + Wellness Hours + Volunteer Hours

401k with company match and immediate vest

Employee Stock Purchase Program at a 15% discounted rate

Matching grants through Protolabs foundation

And More!

Protolabs offers a competitive total rewards package, and compensation mix vary based on position, such as base wage, as well as other earnings including incentives and commissions. Actual pay offered will vary depending on multiple factors which may include, without limitation, job function, work experience, specialized skills, training, education, and certifications.

Proto Labs maintains ITAR-compliant operations in all of our United States based facilities. Due to ITAR regulations, this role is only open to U.S. Citizens, lawful permanent residents (green card holders) or foreign nationals granted refugee or asylee status. Individuals with temporary visas (e.g. E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, TN or OPT) are not eligible for hire in this role.

Physical Demands:

While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use a computer keyboard, monitor and mouse, telephone and printer; reach with hands, and arms, talk, see and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop or kneel and must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment:

Indoors (A/C); nonsmoking; the majority of this job function is performed in an office setting requiring normal safety precautions. However, there may be job duties that require the employee to spend time in the manufacturing areas exposed to machinery and noise; eye protection occasionally required. Occasionally works in outside weather conditions. Occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.