Staff Devops Engineer

Staff Devops Engineer

Requirements

• A minimum of seven years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles is required.
• A minimum of five years of practical experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) services and architecture is required.
• Comprehensive understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles and tools, specifically Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Extensive experience with containerization technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, Elastic Container Service (ECS), and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
• Demonstrated experience in implementing and managing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using GitHub Actions, Codepipeline, and Codebuild.
• Expertise in monitoring and observability tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and Datadog.
• Proficient scripting skills in languages such as Python and Bash.
• Thorough understanding of networking concepts, including Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), subnets, security groups, and load balancing.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and manage complex projects.
• Experience implementing security best practices within cloud environments.
• Knowledge of database administration and optimization, specifically Aurora Relational Database Service (RDS) MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly and concisely.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools.
• Proficiency in programming languages (e.g., Python, Java/Springboot, Node.js) with the ability to debug complex applications and develop infrastructure automation tools.
• Advanced knowledge of Linux systems administration, including performance tuning, troubleshooting, and security hardening.
• Experience with kernel-level operations, system calls, and low-level Linux internals.
• Proficiency in the general networking stack and the ability to diagnose and resolve complex system issues.
• A Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Doctoral degree from a leading university in computer science, engineering, or related fields is required.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust, scalable infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that enable fast, reliable software delivery.
• Architect and implement software services, covering many aspects such as infrastructure, deployment, networking, monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to ensure system reliability and resilience.
• Develop and enforce infrastructure security best practices across all environments.
• Implement cost optimization strategies for cloud resources without compromising performance.
• Own and drive the SRE culture, focusing on reliability metrics like DORA, SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Lead incident response for critical production issues and conduct thorough post-mortems where applicable.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers on infrastructure and reliability practices.
• Build automated tooling to reduce operational overhead and improve developer productivity.
• Establish and document infrastructure standards and best practices.
• Collaborate effectively with software engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excels in high-growth startup environments.
• Demonstrates strong strategic thinking.
• Shows problem-solving abilities.
• Displays self-motivation.
• Collaborative team player.
• Curious and eager to learn.
• Possesses a strong work ethic.
• Maintains integrity.
• Exhibits grit.