LEAP

Senior DevOps Engineer

LEAP

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: TexasUnited 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSTerraformKubernetesDatadogCI/CDGitOpsinfrastructure-as-codeincident responseautomationmonitoring
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationorganizational skillstechnical writingcollaborationdecision makingproblem solvingadaptabilitydocumentation