
Senior DevOps Engineer
Patriot Software
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Alaska • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $155,000 - $170,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design, build, and run reliable, scalable infrastructure with a strong platform engineering and SRE mindset.
- Lead platform engineering initiatives using Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Design and operate CI/CD platforms and deployment strategies to enable safe, low-risk releases.
- Build and maintain strong observability foundations, including metrics, logging, alerting, and dashboards tied to service health.
- Design, build, and operate scalable, secure AWS infrastructure, including VPCs, subnets, routing, NAT, VPNs, and Transit Gateway.
- Own and evolve cloud networking and connectivity architecture, ensuring secure, reliable, and performant communication between services.
- Configure and manage Cloudflare to support edge security (including WAF, DDoS protection, and rate limiting), optimize CDN performance and caching strategies, and handle DNS and traffic management.
- Actively participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless post-mortems to drive durable corrective actions.
- Strengthen security and compliance across infrastructure, including IAM, network security, container security, and SOC2 alignment.
- Define and improve service reliability through SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
- Reduce operational toil through automation and standardized platform patterns.
- Identify and drive cost optimization, including cloud and network egress efficiency.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to a collaborative, high-performance engineering culture.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE roles
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- AWS, including networking and connectivity design
- Kubernetes (EKS)
- Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK, Terraform, or similar)
- CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred)
- Experience configuring and operating Cloudflare (CDN, WAF, DNS, edge security)
- Hands-on experience with scripting languages such as Python and Bash for automation and operational tooling
- Proven experience owning production systems with high availability, performance, and security requirements
- Solid understanding of cloud networking fundamentals (routing, load balancing, security groups, NACLs)
- Strong understanding of SRE principles and operational excellence
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams
- Hands-on experience improving observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading cross-team initiatives
- Exposure to AI-assisted operations or intelligent automation
- Consistent, Reliable High-Speed Internet Access
- Dedicated, quiet workspace free from distractions.
Benefits
- Comprehensive suite of benefits that help our team thrive inside and outside of work.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSKubernetesInfrastructure as CodeCI/CDCloudflarePythonBashPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetry
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationmentoringleadershipincident responseroot cause analysisproblem-solvingautomationcost optimizationhigh-performance culture