Cleerly

Staff DevOps Engineer

Cleerly

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • Colorado, New York, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $207,000 - $235,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDynamoDBEC2JavaScriptKubernetesLinuxNode.jsPythonTerraform

About the role

  • Lead automation of deployment, configuration, and infrastructure operations across operating systems, databases, networks, and hybrid cloud environments.
  • Own and maintain the Terraform codebase, implementing infrastructure as code best practices and enforcing security and compliance via policy-as-code.
  • Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to ensure fast, reliable, and secure delivery of infrastructure and application changes.
  • Manage Kubernetes environments (EKS), including cluster provisioning, workload orchestration, scaling, upgrades, and observability.
  • Demonstrate strong expertise in AWS security, encryption, and backup practices, including compliance with frameworks such as SOC 2, HIPAA, and HITRUST.
  • Manage monitoring and log analysis using tools like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Datadog, and Sentry.
  • Collaborate with application teams to gather requirements and deliver secure, scalable migration paths using AWS services like CloudFront, ECS, EC2, EKS, ElastiCache, Aurora, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, Step Functions, and Lambdas.
  • Champion Agile and DevOps transformation by promoting best practices, continuous improvement, and team-level adoption strategies.
  • Contribute to org-wide initiatives focused on improving test infrastructure, environment stability, and automation tooling.
  • Proactively identify security gaps in infrastructure and tooling; implement controls and guardrails using IAM, AWS Config, and security scanning tools.
  • Collaborate closely with engineering, security, and IT teams to ensure infrastructure aligns with product requirements and compliance standards.
  • Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant systems with strong observability and disaster recovery capabilities.
  • Define and track SLAs/SLOs in partnership with product and engineering teams, leveraging observability tooling to monitor service health.
  • Monitor infrastructure costs and lead optimization efforts across compute, storage, and networking resources.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and lead post-incident reviews, driving long-term reliability improvements across systems.

Requirements

  • Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
  • 12-15 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer in Cloud environments (preferably AWS).
  • 8+ years of experience in server administration (Linux).
  • 8+ years of experience in scripting or development languages (Bash Shell Script, Python, Node.js).
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Strong problem-solving and debugging capabilities.
  • Detail-oriented, with a focus on delivering high-quality, maintainable code.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a distributed team.
Benefits
  • travel is required for some team meetings and cross function projects typically once per month or once per quarter

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
TerraformCI/CDKubernetesAWSBash Shell ScriptPythonNode.jsinfrastructure as codemonitoringlog analysis
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingdebuggingdetail-orientedindependent workteamworkcontinuous improvementleadershipAgile