Senior DevOps Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design, create, and manage platforms that support software delivery, edge and L7 networking, platform access, and application-facing observability.

• Take ownership of the platform in the designated region and timezone.

• Diagnose issues across the technology stack and provide guidance to engineering teams regarding platform utilization.

• Engage in the regional support rotation.

• Monitor and triage alerts, participate in incident declarations, lead structured debugging and escalation processes, and facilitate blameless post-mortems and follow-up actions.

• Manage the production change pathway utilizing GitHub Actions, Argo CD, and Helm across various clusters and regions.

• Operate high-traffic edge and API gateway infrastructure that handles hundreds of millions of requests daily.

• Manage internal production tools including Grafana, Sentry, Teleport, Metabase, and Atlantis.

• Enhance Platform-as-a-Product through self-service functionalities and established best practices.

• Drive improvement projects from inception to successful production delivery.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years in a DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role, demonstrating a successful history of managing large-scale, high-availability, high-performance systems in production environments.

• Proven ability to manage multi-quarter platform projects end-to-end within a complex environment that operates multiple Kubernetes clusters.

• Extensive experience with production Kubernetes across different clusters, including upgrades, troubleshooting, daily operational responsibilities, and packaging and deploying workloads using Helm.

• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code utilizing Terraform, organizing codebases across various environments, with GitOps as a foundational principle and a least-privilege approach as standard.

• Demonstrated experience in building and managing CI/CD pipelines at scale, such as with GitHub Actions, including releases that deploy to multiple production environments.

• Knowledge of GitOps continuous delivery using Argo CD, or a similar transferable tool.

• Practical experience in a production setting on Google Cloud, preferably GKE; fluent in daily operations on GCP.

• Strong understanding of L7 networking concepts: load balancing, DNS, TLS, and HTTP routing; comfortable troubleshooting the request path from edge to workload.

• A mindset oriented towards Platform-as-a-Product.

• Willingness and capability to participate in a Follow-The-Sun on-call rotation during APAC or EMEA hours.

• Ability to collaborate effectively in a distributed, asynchronous-first team with strong written communication skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options

• Health Benefits

• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500

• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card