
Senior DevOps Engineer
Freestar
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Act as the primary technical point of contact for Engineering and Product teams, providing daily operational support for Platform requests.
- Design, deploy, and manage scalable services on GCP.
- Build and optimize repeatable deployment pipelines and deployment blueprints.
- Monitor cloud expenditure and implement right-sizing initiatives to support departmental cost-reduction goals.
- Maintain comprehensive monitoring and alerting frameworks to ensure high availability and lead rapid incident response for critical systems.
- Execute stack-hardening tasks, including vulnerability scanning, access control audits, and secrets detection.
- Manage the ongoing updates, patching, and maintenance of platform components.
Requirements
- 5–7 years in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering with a focus on high-availability production environments.
- 3+ years of deep, hands-on experience with major cloud providers (GCP preferred, AWS, or Azure), including cloud architecture, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
- Expert-level proficiency with Terraform and a "policy as code" mindset.
- Advanced knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes, including image management and cluster administration.
- Strong fundamentals in Python, Shell, or equivalent languages for automation and tool building.
- Proven experience building and maintaining modern pipelines (GitHub Actions, JFrog, CloudBuild)
- Solid understanding of cloud networking (VPCs, Firewalls) and security practices, including IAM, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning.
Benefits
- Generous Flexible Time Away policy
- Fully remote company, with collaborative asynchronous teamwork
- The opportunity to be part of something BIG
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
DevOpsSRECloud EngineeringGCPAWSAzureTerraformDockerKubernetesPython
Soft Skills
communicationoperational supportincident responsecost-reductionmonitoringalerting