
Senior DevOps Engineer
LEAP
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $100,000 - $140,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Partner closely with the Director of DevOps, operating independently and making informed decisions in high-pressure situations
- Lead and mentor DevOps team members, ensuring best practices in automation, monitoring, and incident response
- Architect, implement, and manage infrastructure in AWS leveraging modern cloud-native patterns
- Own and expand existing infrastructure-as-code, ensuring repeatability and compliance using technologies such as Terraform and ansible
- Manage and optimize multiple Kubernetes clusters for enterprise-scale applications
- Oversee observability and monitoring solutions using Datadog (APM, Infrastructure Monitoring, etc.) and other related tools
- Partner with Engineering and QA teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines and release management
- Write clear, actionable Jira tickets and maintain strong documentation to drive execution across teams
- Drive modern DevOps and SRE practices (e.g., GitOps, immutable infra, auto-scaling, blue/green & canary deployments)
- Support disaster recovery planning, capacity management, and compliance requirements (PCI DSS, SOC 2).
Requirements
- 5–8+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering
- Strong expertise with AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, Route53, etc.)
- Proven experience with Terraform in production at scale
- Solid hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS preferred) and container orchestration patterns
- Experience with Datadog or equivalent APM/observability stacks (Prometheus, New Relic, etc.)
- Demonstrated ability to remain effective and decisive during incidents, outages, and critical releases
- Strong technical writing and organizational skills (clear Jira tickets, runbooks, postmortems)
- Understanding of modern DevOps/SRE principles: CI/CD, infrastructure immutability, monitoring-first culture, GitOps, automated testing, secrets management
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Prior experience mentoring junior DevOps engineers or leading small teams.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, and Voluntary benefits
- Generous PTO
- Paid parental leave (following 12 months of continuous employment)
- 401K Match
- $200 event reimbursement
- 360 Learning, a world-class learning and development platform
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSTerraformKubernetesDatadogCI/CDGitOpsinfrastructure-as-codeincident responseautomationmonitoring
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationorganizational skillstechnical writingcollaborationdecision makingproblem solvingadaptabilitydocumentation