Senior Staff Engineer, DevOps

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Architecture & Strategy (30%) Design and evolve scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure spanning multiple regions and cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Lead infrastructure-as-code (IaC) initiatives using CloudFormation, Terraform, and other tooling; establish patterns and standards for infrastructure management

• Architect and implement disaster recovery, business continuity, and infrastructure resilience strategies

• Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives, implementing governance, monitoring, and rightsizing strategies to achieve operational efficiency

• Establish and maintain security baselines, compliance requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.), and infrastructure hardening standards

• CI/CD Platform & Automation (15%) Design and manage enterprise CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent platforms

• Build and maintain self-service deployment platforms that enable developers to ship code with confidence

• Lead testing shift left initiatives, including static code analysis, security scanning, and automated deployment validation.

• Establish release engineering practices, version control strategies, and deployment orchestration across environments

• Observability, Monitoring & Incident Response (15%) Design comprehensive monitoring, logging, metrics, and tracing infrastructure using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, or equivalent

• Establish SLI/SLO frameworks and error budgeting practices; define meaningful alerting and on-call procedures

• Lead incident response and post-mortem processes; drive reliability improvements through systematic root cause analysis

• Implement security monitoring, threat detection, and DevSecOps practices integrated with CI/CD workflows

• Container Orchestration & Kubernetes (10%) Architect, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters in production environments; optimize resource utilization and cost

• Design containerization strategies, container image management, and registry solutions

• Implement service mesh, networking policies, and security controls within container platforms

• Drive adoption of Helm, operators, tooling (ArgoCD, Flux) for declarative infrastructure management

• Technical Leadership & Collaboration (20%) Mentor and guide junior and mid-level DevOps engineers; establish technical standards, code reviews, and best practices

• Collaborate with software engineering, security, database, and network teams to align on infrastructure requirements

• Drive technical documentation, architecture decision records (ADRs), and knowledge sharing initiatives

• Participate in architectural reviews, capacity planning, and technology evaluation for infrastructure modernization

• Advocate for operational excellence, automation-first mindset, and continuous improvement culture

• Network & Security Infrastructure (10%) Design and implement cloud networking architecture including VPC, subnets, routing, and security group policies

• Manage firewalls, WAF, DDoS protection, VPN, and ingress/egress patterns

• Implement zero-trust security principles, identity and access management (IAM), and secrets management solutions

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master's degree preferred)

• 15+ years of overall experience in software engineering, systems engineering, or infrastructure operations

• 5-10+ years of hands-on DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or platform engineering experience

• Proven expertise with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) in production environments at scale

• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent)

• Deep experience with Kubernetes in production; strong understanding of container technologies (Docker, containerd)

• Expert-level proficiency with Linux/Unix system administration, networking, and security fundamentals

• Strong scripting and programming skills in Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages

• Extensive experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines at enterprise scale

• Demonstrated expertise with monitoring, logging, and observability solutions (Prometheus, ELK, Datadog, etc.)

• Exceptional problem-solving, troubleshooting, and diagnostic skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to document processes and architect complex systems

• Ability to lead and mentor engineers; demonstrated experience mentoring junior and mid-level staff

• Experience working in fast-paced, collaborative environments with cross-functional teams

• Desired Qualifications AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

• Knowledge of service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, Consul)

• Experience with advanced configuration management (Helm, Kustomize) and templating solutions

• Exposure to distributed systems, microservices architecture, and event-driven design

• Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud strategies

• Knowledge of advanced security practices (DevSecOps, supply chain security, secrets management)

• Experience with backup strategies, and infrastructure disaster recovery

• Familiarity with software defined networking (SDN) and advanced networking concepts

• Experience with observability and cost management tools (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudHealth, etc.)

• Track record of implementing cost optimization initiatives resulting in measurable savings

• Open source contributions or involvement in DevOps/infrastructure communities