
Senior Techops Engineer
ACD Direct
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Farmington • Utah • United States
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Salary
💰 $86,000 - $100,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design and implement robust CI/CD frameworks for serverless and containerized (Kubernetes/Docker) applications.
- Lead the transition to fully versioned infrastructure - owning IaC strategy using Terraform, Pulumi, or Bicep to ensure environment parity and rapid recovery.
- Own the availability, performance, and survivability of production environments; define and monitor SLOs/SLIs to maintain 99.9%+ uptime targets.
- Serve as the primary owner of the organization's security posture - implement automated vulnerability scanning, IAM least-privilege policies, and audit logging for strict PCI DSS compliance.
- Partner with QA and Software Engineering leads to embed DevSecOps practices into the early stages of the SDLC.
- Lead root-cause analysis (RCA) for complex system failures and drive implementation of preventative automations to eliminate repeat incidents.
- Architect and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling across all production and non-production environments.
- Mentor junior and mid-level TechOps engineers - conducting code/config reviews, sharing expertise, and contributing to team capability development.
- Champion TechOps best practices across the team; set the documentation and process standards others follow.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate new technologies and deliver infrastructure roadmap items on time.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Systems Engineering.
- Deep expertise with CI/CD pipelines and release automation across complex, multi-environment systems.
- Strong cloud platform mastery (AWS, Azure, or GCP) - you can architect a solution and then build it.
- Expert-level Kubernetes experience; comfortable designing and troubleshooting production container workloads.
- Advanced IaC proficiency using Terraform, Pulumi, Bicep, or equivalent - you treat infrastructure like software.
- Demonstrated experience owning PCI DSS compliance for a production environment.
- Strong background in security engineering: IAM, vulnerability management, automated scanning, and audit logging.
- Ability to define and track SLOs/SLIs and translate reliability data into infrastructure improvements.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising the overall skill level of a team.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; you can explain trade-offs to engineers and business stakeholders alike.
- Self-directed and highly organized - thrives in a fully remote, async-first environment.
Benefits
- Medical/Vision and Dental Insurance
- Personal Accident Insurance
- 401(k)/Roth with matching
- Tiered PTO based upon length of employment
- Discounts & Life Services offered through Optum EAP
- Monthly Cell Phone Stipend
- Monthly Internet Stipend
- Equipment Provided: Laptop, Headset
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
CI/CDKubernetesDockerTerraformPulumiBicepSLOsSLIsvulnerability managementsecurity engineering
Soft Skills
mentoringcommunicationself-directedorganizationalcollaborationleadershipproblem-solvingdocumentationprocess standardsroot-cause analysis
Certifications
PCI DSS compliance