Brief summary of role:
Are you a seasoned engineer ready to take on a high-impact role? Whether you’ve held titles or seeking a role more like Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Lead Engineer, or Founding Engineer, we’re looking for a top-tier technical mind to join our team and help shape the future of our product and technology. For the right candidate title can be a consideration
This role is built for someone who thrives on ownership, brings deep technical expertise, and wants to work on challenging problems that truly move the needle. You’ll play a key role in driving architecture, mentoring others, and leading initiatives that touch every part of our stack.
The Sr. DevOps Engineer will be part of a collaborative team that will build, automate and maintain our multi-region infrastructure that makes up a robust and highly-available system. They will be hands-on with a broad understanding of container orchestration (Kubernetes), Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, Monitoring/Alerting and GitOps workflow in addition to other DevOps methodologies. They will work with other teams to increase developer velocity and provide process improvements to ensure system efficiency, scalability, security and reliability.
What you will be doing:
- Management of Kubernetes in development and production environments, including tooling such as Helm, ArgoCD, Istio and others.
- Write infrastructure as code using Terraform/Terragrunt.
- Administration and maintenance of TeamCity and Github Actions deployment pipelines.
- Handle Jira tickets pertaining to projects and tasks.
- Provide procedure documentation such as runbooks, playbooks and diagrams.
- Respond to production outages, triage issues by following standard operating procedures and escalation workflows.
- Participate in an on-call rotation.
What we are looking for:
- BA/BS in Computer Science or relevant field, considerable weight will be given to hands-on experience and prior accomplishments
- 5 years of hands-on experience in AWS administration, build, release, DevOps or SRE roles.
- In-depth knowledge of the AWS ecosystem. (EC2, EKS/ECS, RDS, IAM, KMS, SQS, CloudWatch, Lambda, Config, Glue etc.)
- Intimate knowledge of Kubernetes clusters and technology. Multiple years experience not only rolling out K8's but managing the day to day administration and troubleshooting.
- Experience supporting a multi-region infrastructure in AWS is a huge plus. Bonus with AWS GovCloud or GCP experience.
- Production experience with container-orchestration systems and tooling: (EKS, ECS/Fargate, ArgoCD, Helm, Istio, etc.)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools: (Terraform or Pulumi)
- Experience with infrastructure monitoring tools: Datadog, Prometheus, etc.
- Linux server administration. Expertise with at least one Scripting language (eg: Python, Bash/Shell, etc.)
- Experience deploying, configuring, managing and automating CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity)
- Keen eye for process improvement in the realm of DevOps/SRE (deployments, automation, security, developer velocity, etc.)
- Nice to have - AWS Certifications and/or CKA Certified Kubernetes Administrator
How you like to work:
- Ability to work with people across different business units within the company.
- Ability to effectively communicate is an essential function of this position.
- Be a team player that can also work independently. Self-starter mentality
Base Salary: $140,000 - $210,000
The “Base Salary: range represents the low and high end of the anticipated salary range for this position across all US locations including but not limited to CA, CO, NY, WA, NV, MD, CT and RI. The determination of this anticipated Base Salary involves the consideration of many factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: location of candidate, unique skill sets, experience, training, performance, licensure and certifications, as well as other business and organizational needs. Our anticipated Base Salary determination is just one component of OpenSpace’s competitive total rewards strategy that also includes equity awards, 401k match, as well as other region-specific health and wellness benefits.
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