Senior DevOps Engineer
HireArt · Palo Alto, CA · 6 days ago
On-siteEngineeringFull-time
About the role
The Senior DevOps Engineer will drive automation, reliability, and operational efficiency of a platform supporting the full web application lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Provide extended U.S. coverage for SEV-1 and SEV-2 production incidents during standard business hours.
- Identify manual processes and implement automation solutions that improve efficiency, reduce deployment times, and streamline operational workflows.
- Deploy, manage, and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to ensure scalability, security, and reliability.
- Build and maintain monitoring and observability solutions that support application performance, infrastructure health, and production uptime goals.
- Develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to enable reliable and efficient software delivery.
- Apply critical security patches and platform updates within established service level objectives while communicating security advisories to stakeholders.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, and best practices to support knowledge sharing and operational continuity.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or a related role.
- Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including container deployment, orchestration, and management.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, including services such as IAM, networking, and cloud infrastructure.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), preferably Terraform.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, or the ELK Stack.
- Strong understanding of automation, cloud operations, and production support best practices.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, UX, and leadership teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio.
- Understanding of DevSecOps principles, including secure deployment practices, vulnerability management, and incident response.
- Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies (Scrum or Kanban).
- Experience supporting multi-tenant or enterprise-scale platforms.
- Experience implementing backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
- Familiarity with Nx monorepo tooling and multi-tenant architectures.