Kin

Staff DevOps Engineer – Platform Operations

Kin

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $180,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSDockerEC2RedisShell ScriptingTerraform

About the role

  • Continuously improving automation and tooling to streamline deployment processes and increase efficiency and self-service functionality
  • Supporting a positive and proactive culture of collaboration across Kin
  • Utilizing your understanding of AWS services and working with peers to optimize infrastructure performance, scalability, resilience, and cost-efficiency
  • Designing and implementing solutions to ensure system changes continuously adhere to regulatory compliance and support Kin’s security posture
  • Respond to issues, incidents and problems in real time
  • Working with engineers to build their understanding and skills for good citizenship of their infrastructure and pipelines
  • Diving deep with internal stakeholders to make sure our infrastructure and development platform are mutually beneficial to our application and data architecture
  • Implementing, monitoring, logging, and alerting in Datadog to ensure high availability and performance of our systems
  • Collaborating with IT and Security on RBAC
  • Mentoring and supporting teammates
  • Updating documentation
  • Staying up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies

Requirements

  • Extensive experience in DevOps or related roles, with a strong focus on CI/CD automation and infrastructure management
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, including thoughtful pushback
  • Proven success mentoring engineers
  • Demonstrated success in creating compliant, self-service delivery pipelines
  • Proficiency in GitHub Workflows and Actions for orchestrating CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong skills with Terraform/OpenTofu for infrastructure as code (IaC) development
  • Deep knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, ECS, ECR, S3, RDS, Redis, Lambda, and IAM
  • Strong shell scripting skills, Docker, and YAML
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while finding ways to preempt firedrills
  • A fast learner, ready to bring previous knowledge to this position and continue developing along the way
Benefits
  • Competitive salary and company equity through Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), granted as part of our standard compensation package and based on role and level.
  • 401K with company match of up to 4% of eligible earnings
  • Flexible PTO for exempt employees (employees typically take 15-20 days annually), along with 8 company-observed holidays
  • A paid parental leave program that provides 100% salary continuation of up to 14 weeks for birthing parents and 8 weeks for non birthing parents
  • Continuing education and professional development opportunities

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
CI/CD automationinfrastructure managementGitHub WorkflowsGitHub ActionsTerraformOpenTofuAWS EC2AWS ECSAWS ECRAWS S3
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationmentoringproblem-solvingattention to detailadaptabilityproactive culturethoughtful pushbackfast learnerteam support