Sr Devops Engineer- AWS and Site Reliability
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About the role
This role is essential for designing, implementing, and deploying scalable software solutions that meet customer requirements and support high-availability environments. You will collaborate with engineers to develop software components using virtualization, microservices, software-defined networking, network functions virtualization, big data, and cloud technologies. The position requires independent judgment to resolve technical issues and make recommendations for software design and implementation. Success is measured by delivering effective software solutions that integrate with system protocols, support reliable operations, and meet business and technical requirements.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to design innovations that improve systems, processes, services, cloud environments, or reliability using new frameworks and industry best practices.
- Collaborate with technical teams to deliver software and cloud solutions, improve system reliability, and mentor others through knowledge sharing and training sessions.
- Support technology strategy by evaluating and applying current technologies, including cloud, automation, containerization, and observability capabilities, that align with business goals.
- Create clear documentation for software code, system designs, operational procedures, and business requirements to support knowledge sharing.
- Contribute to CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, automation, incident response, and reliability improvements for high-availability environments.
- Perform other duties or projects as assigned by business management.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree plus 5 years of related work experience OR Advanced degree with 3 years of related experience (Required). Acceptable areas of study include Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management, or equivalent experience.
- 4-7 years of technical engineering experience (Required).
Skills
- Analytical Thinking
- Analytics
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Customer Service
- Mentorship
- Programming Languages
- Software Design
- Software Development
- System Integration
- Technical Writing
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing or supporting applications and platforms in AWS or other public cloud environments.
- Experience with Kubernetes or Amazon EKS and containerized application environments.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Experience implementing or supporting CI/CD pipelines and automated software delivery.
- Experience with observability practices, including monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
- Experience with Python, Shell scripting, REST APIs, or similar automation technologies.
- Familiarity with SRE practices, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, reliability metrics, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Experience improving system availability, deployment quality, operational efficiency, or reduction of repetitive operational work.
- AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, ITIL, or SRE-related certifications are a plus.
Pay
Base pay range: $113,600 – $205,000. The successful candidate’s actual pay will be based on work location, qualifications, and experience. Most corporate employees are eligible for an annual bonus target of 15% based on company and/or individual performance.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible spending account
- 401(k) with company match
- Annual stock grants and employee stock purchase plan
- Paid time off (up to 4 weeks for new full-time employees, ~2.5 weeks for part-time) and up to 12 paid holidays annually
- Paid parental and family leave
- Family-building benefits, back-up care, enhanced family support, and childcare subsidy
- Tuition assistance and college coaching
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Voluntary AD&D, accident, life, and long-term care insurance
- Mobile service and home internet discounts
- Pet insurance
- Commuter and transit programs