Staff Software Engineer, Dev Ops

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

📋 Description

• Act as a technical leader for DevOps projects across engineering teams.

• Establish architectural standards and best practices for infrastructure, automation of deployment, and operational excellence.

• Lead strategic initiatives aimed at enhancing scalability, resiliency, and platform performance.

• Offer mentorship and technical direction to engineers throughout the organization.

• Design, implement, and refine enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines.

• Create automation strategies that enhance deployment consistency, quality, and release speed.

• Collaborate with development teams to optimize build, test, deployment, and release processes.

• Promote the adoption of DevOps best practices throughout the entire software development lifecycle.

• Architect, construct, and manage highly available cloud environments on AWS and Microsoft Azure.

• Spearhead infrastructure modernization initiatives utilizing Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies.

• Develop scalable cloud-native solutions that meet current and future business needs.

• Enhance platform performance, reliability, security, and operational expenses.

• Design and support enterprise-grade containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.

• Establish deployment patterns and operational standards for Kubernetes-based workloads.

• Lead initiatives centered on orchestration, scalability, observability, and platform automation.

• Encourage the adoption of cloud-native development and deployment methodologies.

• Create Infrastructure-as-Code solutions utilizing Terraform and CloudFormation.

• Develop automated solutions for provisioning, configuration management, compliance, and operational support.

• Improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response capabilities across cloud infrastructures.

• Advocate for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and reliability-centered engineering practices.

• Collaborate with Security teams to implement cloud security best practices and compliance standards.

• Design solutions that facilitate encryption, identity management, access controls, and network security.

• Lead efforts to enhance platform resilience through disaster recovery and fault-tolerant designs.

• Ensure that infrastructure solutions comply with security and governance standards.

• Reports to the Manager of DevOps.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Over 8 years of experience in designing, building, and supporting large-scale cloud infrastructure and software delivery platforms.

• Proven track record of leading complex DevOps, cloud modernization, or platform engineering projects within SaaS organizations.

• Experience in architecting highly available, fault-tolerant systems that support mission-critical workloads.

• Demonstrated capability to influence technical strategy and promote engineering best practices across multiple teams.

• Deep expertise in microservices architectures and cloud-native application design principles, including SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and multi-tenant platforms.

• Advanced knowledge of AWS and/or Microsoft Azure cloud services and infrastructure management.

• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks such as Terraform and CloudFormation.

• Extensive familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and contemporary container orchestration technologies.

• Solid understanding of networking concepts including DNS, TCP/IP, VPNs, firewalls, routers, and network security.

• Experience implementing cloud security frameworks, identity management, and compliance controls.

• Working knowledge of .NET Core/.NET Framework, Java, and JavaScript.

• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and application issues.

• Relevant certifications in AWS, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, or other cloud platforms.

• Experience in architecting and managing large-scale Kubernetes environments.

• Experience designing globally distributed, highly resilient cloud infrastructures.

• Expertise in disaster recovery planning, business continuity, and fault-tolerant architectures.

• Strong understanding of security frameworks, including OAuth, WS-Security, encryption at rest, and encryption in transit.

• Experience in implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and observability frameworks.

• Experience working within Agile development environments using Atlassian Jira and modern DevOps toolchains.

• Background in supporting enterprise SaaS products at scale.

🏝️ Benefits

• Variable incentive pay component.

• Flexible work options.

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Competitive compensation and benefits packages.

• Equal employment opportunities.

• Reasonable accommodations for disabilities.

• Confidential handling of applicant information.