Senior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, redundant, cost-effective, and fault-tolerant infrastructure for our production systems.
• Proactively manage infrastructure costs and make optimization recommendations.
• Help migrate existing applications into Kubernetes and support container orchestration strategies.
• Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines and operational tooling to support rapid development and deployment cycles.
• Write high-quality JavaScript code and Bash scripts to automate infrastructure processes and troubleshoot issues.
• Design, build, and maintain systems and tools to automate operational processes and enhance developer productivity.
• Develop comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems to increase visibility across environments.
• Automate incident response where appropriate and ensure quick recovery from system issues.
• Understand, implement, and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation.
• Work closely with Engineering, QA, and Product teams to troubleshoot issues and develop creative solutions.
• Educate development teams to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks, single points of failure, and scaling constraints.
• Stays up to date on relevant technologies, trends, and opportunities to ensure we always use leading techniques and tools appropriate for the company.
• Actively participate in planning meetings and collaborate with the team to identify and implement the best technical solution for the company.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with at least one of the following programming languages: JavaScript, Node.js, Golang, Python, or C#.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience configuring and managing AWS environments.
• 5+ years of experience with Linux systems, including administration, operations, and networking.
• Extensive experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Strong experience managing distributed messaging systems, preferably RabbitMQ.
• Deep experience supporting and optimizing both SQL and NoSQL databases, ideally PostgreSQL and DynamoDB.
• Experience deploying, managing, and scaling microservices in production environments, preferably using Node.js.
• Experience with build automation tools, preferably GitHub Actions.
• Experience with configuration management and workflow automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform.
• Strong understanding of security best practices, DevSecOps principles, and compliance automation.
• Hands-on experience in performance tuning, capacity planning, and cost optimization at the infrastructure level.
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent is required.
• Experience in monitoring and supporting highly available, large-scale web applications in production is a plus.
• Experience with Redis and Elasticsearch is a plus.
• Exposure to IoT platforms or experience supporting infrastructure for connected devices is a huge plus.
• Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux is a plus.

What you need to know:

• Full-time opportunity.
• Location: Fully remote - nationwide.
• Opportunities for growth and personal development within a highly dynamic team.
• Robust, low-cost benefit packages offered.
• Benefit coverage begins on the first date of employment.
• Paid Time Off and Volunteer Time Off offered.
• 401k match.
• Dependent Care offered.
• Employee referral bonuses.
• Visa sponsorship offered.