DevOps Engineer

Dev Ops Engineer

Boston Area

Full-Time

Dynamic Ideas, LLC, has a 26-year history of incubating and monetizing several successful enterprises across a range of industries. Dynamic Ideas is based in Waltham, MA, and is led by Professor Dimitris Bertsimas, an MIT dean, serial entrepreneur, and one of the foremost thought leaders in optimization and operations research. We are supported by a well-established and highly successful Board of Directors.

Dynamic Ideas does business internationally and has multiple overseas software development teams.

This role will support two particular divisions within the Dynamic Ideas business network:
Alpha Route provides dynamic, end-to-end software, advanced analytics, and sophisticated consulting support to help school bus and transit agencies optimize their daily operations. Holistic Hospital Optimization, or H2O, provides similar software and services to help hospitals and related medical facilities to optimize their operations, in areas such as nurse scheduling, operating room availability, and patients’ length of stay. Both of these divisions promote broader societal goals and their innovative solutions can save millions of dollars for their clients.

Both are poised for rapid growth.

We are looking for an experienced and hands-on Dev Ops Engineer to help manage our deployment infrastructure, ensure software reliability and scalability, improve developer workflows, liaise with our skilled overseas development teams, and oversee data security and compliance across a range of software products. The role comes at a critical time in our organization’s trajectory, as we need a talented individual to help bring our software to the next level, ultimately driving significant value for our customers and revenue for our business.

The role will report to Dynamic Ideas' Lead Data Scientist and will have direct and frequent communications with the organization’s CEO, its full data science team, and a group of nearly 40 overseas developers.

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 3+ years' hands-on professional experience in a Dev Ops role
• Strong technical skills, including coding across multiple languages and technology architecting
• Proficiency in scripting and automation
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Bit Bucket, Git Lab)
• Strong experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, ECS/EKS, IAM, Cloud Watch, etc.)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform)
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes a plus)
• Experience with both front- and back-end development
• Solid understanding of software security practices and compliance requirements (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR, etc.)
• Demonstrated relationship-building and communication skills
• Ability to work in a deadline-driven work environment, tactfully balancing a range of sometimes competing priorities
• Magnetic personality, instilling confidence in others
• Keen attention to detail

• Plan and manage all software feature and version releases, alongside Lead Data Scientist and dev team leadership
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable, and secure delivery of features.
• Own the infrastructure strategy using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform)
• Monitor systems for availability, performance, and security; implement automated alerting and logging solutions (e.g., Cloud Watch, Datadog)
• Manage AWS environments, ensuring cost-effective, secure, and scalable configurations
• Implement and maintain containerization solutions (e.g., Docker) and coordinate with teams on orchestration (e.g., ECS, Kubernetes)
• Handle secrets and configuration management (e.g., AWS Secrets Manager)
• Participate…