While we're proud of what we've already accomplished, we're searching for new collaborators to help us get to the next level! If you're looking to join a forward-thinking, rapidly growing organization with helping people as its number one goal, we want to hear from you.
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who specializes in AWS and containerized environments. Our team runs infrastructure as a software project, deploying cloud resources using Infrastructure As Code and a GITOPS model. We leverage best in class tools, and press to eliminate entire classes of problems, rather than execute one off remediations. Our company and team are growing, we need strong contributors for major initiatives.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in a DevOps or SRE role.
- Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform/Open Tofu, Helm).
- A strong Devops SDLC mindset.
- Seasoned in orchestrating project prioritization and guiding teams through execution.
- Strong focus on fostering collaboration and developing strategic roadmaps
- Extensive experience with AWS and its core services (ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, Etc.).
- Solid experience with CI/CD tools (AWS Codepipeline, Spacelift, CircleCI).
- Strong experience with containerization technologies like Docker, ECS, and Kubernetes.
- Strong Debugging, Monitoring, and Triage skills.
- A track record of taking ownership of projects and seeing them through from design to production deployment.
What You'll Do
- Develop and maintain our cloud infrastructure, focusing on AWS services.
- Implement and maintain our Continuous Delivery pipelines to enable rapid and reliable software releases.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues, ensuring high availability and system reliability.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize application performance and scalability.
- Implement and manage security best practices across our cloud environment.
- Promote and contribute to a High Quality Code Base through code reviews, best practices, and clean documentation.
- Rotating On-Call duties
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