Senior DevOps Engineer

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full-time

Posted on: 9/22/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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AWSCloudDockerGoGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraform

About the role

Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency applications (mainly AWS, with flexibility for multi-cloud environments)
Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines for efficient, reliable, and consistent deployment processes (GitHub Actions and similar tools)
Continuously identify and implement infrastructure improvements across the entire product ecosystem
Architect and support serverless solutions using AWS Lambda, ECS Fargate, and event-driven architecture components
Establish comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and logging frameworks to ensure system reliability and visibility
Manage infrastructure-as-code implementations using CloudFormation, Terraform, and related tools
Partner with development teams to determine infrastructure requirements, deployment approaches, and operational toolsets
Oversee secrets management and identity systems utilizing AWS IAM and similar platforms
Maintain compliance with security and privacy standards, including access controls, encryption protocols, and audit mechanisms
Resolve production incidents across all service layers with a focus on rapid response and thorough post-incident analysis
Create and maintain automated backup, disaster recovery, and failover systems
Research and adopt emerging DevOps methodologies and technologies to enhance platform performance and reliability

10+ years of software engineering background with 6+ years focused on DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
Demonstrated experience managing production environments with comprehensive infrastructure responsibilities
Extensive AWS expertise, including compute, storage, networking, and identity management services
Practical experience with serverless technologies (AWS Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, API Gateway, ECS Fargate)
Advanced skills in Docker and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, ECS, GKE)
Proficiency with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, ArgoCD, or Jenkins
Strong scripting capabilities in Bash, Python, or Go for automation and tooling development
Experience with observability solutions (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
Solid understanding of network design, security frameworks, and zero-trust access architectures
Knowledge of secrets management systems and infrastructure-level access policy enforcement
Exceptional troubleshooting and root cause analysis abilities
Strong collaborative and communication skills across diverse technical and business teams
Continuous improvement mindset with focus on automation, optimization, and security enhancement