Job Description

Senior DevOps Engineer

San Francisco, CA

$175,000 - $210,000

Hybrid

We’re looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to lead infrastructure initiatives, optimize CI/CD systems, and mentor other engineers as we continue to scale our client's platform.

Role Overview

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll take ownership of our cloud infrastructure and delivery pipelines. You’ll collaborate closely with developers, architects, and security teams to build highly available, fault-tolerant systems as well as drive best practices in automation, observability, and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable software delivery.
• Lead the design and automation of scalable infrastructure in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Define and enforce best practices for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and logging systems (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog).
• Optimize cloud costs, security, and performance across multiple environments.
• Collaborate with development teams to design cloud-native, containerized solutions using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Drive incident response processes and improve system reliability (SRE principles).
• Mentor junior DevOps and software engineers on automation and cloud operations.

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering experience.
• Proven expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud infrastructure.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI).
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, or Go preferred).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible).
• Excellent grasp of cloud security, networking, and system observability.
• Experience leading projects or mentoring engineering teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with service mesh, serverless, or multi-cloud deployments.
• Background in performance optimization, disaster recovery, or SRE practices.
• Certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, CKA/CKAD, or Azure DevOps Expert.

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