Senior DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership and enhance AWS environments managed through infrastructure as code using CloudFormation.

• Create and sustain GitLab CI/CD pipelines from code commit to production deployment.

• Develop observability features in Datadog, encompassing monitoring, alerting, dashboards, metrics, logging, and tracing.

• Enhance security posture through IAM, ensuring least privilege, encryption, network boundaries, and SOC2 controls.

• Automate the provisioning of environments, deployments, and operational tasks.

• Engage in on-call rotation, lead incident response and postmortems, and implement corrective actions.

• Diagnose live production problems across containers, runtimes, databases, and networks.

• Provide support for Amazon RDS SQL Server and Aurora PostgreSQL databases, focusing on performance, capacity, backups, and upgrades.

• Oversee and enhance platform cost and performance.

• Collaborate with software engineers to advance the developer platform.

• Guide the team towards operational excellence.

• Assist in constructing and managing the AWS cloud foundation for Hatch, Unity, and associated services.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering.

• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS.

• Strong skills in infrastructure as code; experience with CloudFormation is essential, while Terraform or similar tools are acceptable.

• Proven experience in building and operating CI/CD pipelines for production environments.

• Familiarity with observability tools, with a preference for Datadog.

• Understanding of IAM, encryption, network architecture, and least privilege principles.

• Experience supporting SOC2 or similar compliance programs is advantageous.

• Experience managing containerized workloads with Docker and Amazon ECS on Fargate.

• Kubernetes experience is a plus.

• Practical experience operating relational databases in production, particularly SQL Server and PostgreSQL on AWS.

• Experience in debugging Elixir/BEAM or JVM services is a plus.

• Proficiency in at least one scripting language.

• Familiarity with modern AI development tools and the discipline to verify delivered work.

• Ability to communicate effectively with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.

• 401(k).

• Paid company holidays.

• Paid time off.

• Paid parental and caregiver leave.

• Cross-department training and development opportunities.

• Sponsored certifications and credentials for ongoing learning.

• Competitive salary.

• Work-life balance.

• Access to modern technology and AI tools.

• Autonomy to make a significant impact.