Senior DevOps Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Develop and manage high-performance, dependable CI/CD pipelines.

• Take ownership of multi-cloud deployment consistency across SaaS, VPC, and on-premises environments utilizing GCP, AWS, and Azure.

• Establish and uphold infrastructure and deployment standards to prevent environment drift.

• Implement and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for platform health, performance, and SLOs.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration through infrastructure-as-code methods.

• Design and sustain application security, backup, and disaster recovery protocols.

• Collaborate with developers to enhance application performance, reliability, and operability.

• Engage in incident response, on-call rotations, root cause analysis, and remediation efforts.

• Maintain documentation for infrastructure, deployment processes, and runbooks.

• Assist QA by facilitating automated testing within pipelines and ensuring stable testing environments.

• Advocate for best practices regarding code quality, security, and deployment standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience managing production cloud infrastructure, ideally in multi-cloud settings.

• Extensive background with CI/CD systems and pipeline design, including GitLab CI or GitHub Actions.

• Significant production experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.

• Practical experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Proficient with Docker and essential containerization principles.

• Experience in implementing and managing observability stacks that include metrics, logs, and traces.

• Understanding of web application deployment, scaling, and reliability principles.

• Proficient in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or similar.

• Experience with integrating automated tests into deployment workflows.

• Strong analytical and debugging capabilities, particularly in distributed systems.

• Clear and concise communication skills and a collaborative working approach.

• Preferred: knowledge of database administration and backup/recovery strategies.

• Preferred: familiarity with cloud-native and multi-tenant application security best practices.

• Preferred: experience in performance testing, capacity planning, and cost optimization.

• Preferred: understanding of networking, load balancing, and traffic routing.

• Preferred: exposure to AI/ML, HPC, or data- and compute-intensive workloads.

• Preferred: contributions to DevOps/platform tooling or open-source automation initiatives.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary based on location and experience.

• Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, mental health services, and 401(k).

• Fully remote position, primarily collaborating within U.S. time zones.