Sr. DevOps Engineer

The Ideal Candidate

This is a pivotal role in which you’ll lead the integration of DevOps best practices directly into our CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and development workflows, ensuring our new platform is secure, scalable, and resilient from the ground up.

Key Responsibilities 

• Build and Enhance CI/CD Pipeline: Ensure high quality, scalable code and infrastructure in AWS

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, automated CI/CD pipelines to support our platform rebuild. Build and optimize deployment pipelines.

• Implement best practices for securing serverless services across our AWS infrastructure.

• Define and enforce security standards for cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS) using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like SST, Terraform, or CloudFormation.

• Partner with engineers, engineering leaders, and the product team for new feature development and infrastructure updates

• Ensure system stability by monitoring key metrics and helping resolve issues.

• Enhance the observability of all our applications.

• Collaborate with team members in sprint ceremonies, and code reviews

• Assist in implementing effective processes and raising quality standards

• Assist in addressing security concerns in infrastructure and improve overall security posture in the cloud.

• Collaborate with client teams to develop backend services necessary to support new features.

 

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent STEM field, or relevant work experience.

• Deep understanding of AWS, GitHub Actions, and common DevOps tools. AWS certifications are preferred.

• Deep expertise with AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, AppSync, DynamoDB, CDK/SST, IAM, KMS).

• Strong background managing a monorepo (workspace tooling, dependency management) for local development and cloud CI/CD.

• Experience working with infrastructure-as-code through tools like Serverless or Terraform

• Able to code in key languages used at our company, including Typescript/NodeJS.

• Self-motivated attitude with the ability to multitask and thrive in a fast-paced environment, as well as take on tasks and execute independently effectively 

• Interpersonal communication skills with expertise in distilling complicated topics to a broader audience.