- Company Name
- BuildOps
- Job Title
- Senior DevOps Engineer
- Job Description
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**Job title**: Senior DevOps Engineer
**Role Summary**: Design, implement and maintain scalable, secure cloud infrastructure on AWS. Drive CI/CD, observability, SRE practices, and cost optimization to ensure continuous delivery and high reliability of production systems.
**Expectations**: Deliver robust, automated infrastructure that meets performance, security, and budget targets while supporting rapid feature rollouts and incident response.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Architect and maintain IaC solutions using Terraform or CloudFormation for AWS environments.
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, or CodeBuild.
- Deploy, manage, and monitor containerized workloads in ECS/EKS, ensuring networking, load balancing, and security group configurations.
- Implement observability and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or Datadog; enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
- Perform incident response, post‑mortem analysis, and continuous improvement of reliability metrics.
- Lead cost‑optimization initiatives across cloud resources.
- Automate operational tasks to improve developer productivity and reduce manual toil.
- Document infrastructure standards, best practices, and runbooks.
- Collaborate cross‑functionally with software engineers, product managers, and stakeholders.
**Required Skills**
- ≥5 years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering; 2‑3 years with AWS services and architecture.
- Strong IaC experience (Terraform or CloudFormation).
- Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS, and CI/CD tools.
- Monitoring/observability expertise (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog).
- Scripting in Python or Bash; familiarity with Linux system administration and networking (VPC, subnets, security groups, load balancing).
- Experience with cloud security best practices and database services (Aurora RDS MySQL/PostgreSQL).
- Ability to develop and debug infrastructure automation tools; knowledge of Java/Spring Boot, Node.js, or similar.
- Excellent communication skills for articulating complex technical concepts.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- (Optional) Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or Kubernetes Administrator.
Los angeles, United states
Hybrid
Senior
02-12-2025