Staff DevOps Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Architect and continuously enhance Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, incorporating pipeline-as-code standards, templating strategies, and artifact promotion workflows.

• Take ownership of the health and evolution of AWS EKS clusters, managing node lifecycle, autoscaling, networking, RBAC, and cluster upgrades.

• Design and implement Infrastructure-as-Code practices while advocating for GitOps patterns.

• Propel platform reliability enhancements utilizing observability data from New Relic in collaboration with SRE.

• Define and maintain standardized templates for containerized workloads, including Dockerfile standards and Helm chart libraries.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to onboard new services and minimize manual work through automation.

• Act as an escalation point for complex infrastructure incidents via PagerDuty and partake in the on-call rotation.

• Lead reviews following incidents and implement systemic fixes to decrease page volume and MTTR.

• Maintain runbooks and document platform processes in Confluence.

• Define and promote DevOps standards throughout the engineering organization.

• Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical advice on infrastructure decisions.

• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through pairing, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

• Identify gaps in tooling and develop business cases for platform investments.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps or platform engineering.

• A minimum of 2 years in a Staff or Principal role within an organization of over 100 engineers.

• Extensive, hands-on experience with Kubernetes; EKS experience is particularly preferred.

• Experience in troubleshooting workloads, networking, storage, and cluster operations at scale.

• Strong proficiency in Azure DevOps Pipelines, including YAML pipeline authoring, library management, service connections, and environment promotion gates.

• Proven track record in designing and maintaining CI/CD systems for microservice architectures with multiple independent teams.

• Experience with operating observability platforms such as New Relic or Datadog to facilitate proactive reliability improvements.

• Proficiency in at least one scripting language: Python, Bash, or Go.

• Expertise with Infrastructure-as-Code tools: Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK.

• Familiarity with feature flag patterns and progressive delivery; experience with Unleash or similar tools is a plus.

• Exceptional written communication skills, with the ability to translate complex infrastructure decisions into actionable guidance.

• Preferred: experience with data engineering or ML infrastructure workloads on Kubernetes.

• Preferred: background in contributing to or maintaining internal developer portals such as Backstage.

• Preferred: familiarity with FinOps practices and AWS cost attribution and optimization.

• Preferred: experience in SRE-related roles and comfort with SLO/SLI definitions and error budget policies.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical coverage.

• Dental coverage.

• Vision coverage.

• 401(k) match.

• Generous PTO.

• Paid parental leave.

• Health and wellness programs.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Employee discounts.