Senior DevOps Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a world-class DevOps Engineer who is passionate about operational excellence through automation and engineering processes. As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the seamless integration of development and operations processes, to deliver best in class and highly available systems. You will work with the application development teams to understand infrastructure requirements, while promoting efficiency, scalability, security, and reliability throughout the software lifecycle. Your expertise in cloud platforms, automation, and infrastructure management will be crucial to the success of our projects.

Responsibilities

• Designing engineering platforms and tooling that simplify the process of building, deploying, and operating applications.
• Developing automation for common development and operational tasks.
• Monitoring system performance and availability, and remediating as necessary.
• Collaborating with software and data engineering team on finding operationally sustainable solutions to engineering problems.

Requirements

• 5+ years in operational roles (Cloud Operations, Site Reliability, DevOps, etc...)
• Experience with GitOps-based deployments, enabling CI/CD with Jenkins, ArgoCD or similar systems.
• Proficiency with logging and observability technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk or similar.
• Proficiency with designing and operating applications in a public cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc...)
• Expertise in operating and integrating with AWS services such as RDS, EKS, CloudWatch, etc...
• Expertise with containerization technologies such as Docker.
• Expertise with container orchestration such Kubernetes and Helm.
• Expertise in configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform).
• Expertise in maintaining and troubleshooting Linux-based systems.
• Continuously work with the engineering teams to improve reliability, implementing actionable monitoring framework.
• Analytical & problem solving skills, ability to communicate ideas clearly.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, with a strong focus on teamwork.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent in Engineering.
• 10+ years in operational roles (Cloud Operations, Site Reliability, DevOps, etc...)
• 1+ years in Software Engineering roles or equivalent software architecture roles.
• Experience with preparing and executing PCI, SOC2, SOX, or other compliance audits.

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth.

Pay

Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at