- Company Name
- Sirius XM
- Job Title
- Senior DevOps Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
- Job Description
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Job Title
Senior DevOps Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
Role Summary
Lead design, deployment and scaling of secure, cost‑efficient cloud infrastructure on AWS, driving reliability, automation and operational excellence for high‑performance services.
Expectations
• 5+ years in DevOps/CI‑CD or SRE roles, with 3+ years on AWS.
• Proven track record building and managing production Linux and Kubernetes environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead incident response, blameless post‑mortems and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
• Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation or similar.
• Own full lifecycle management: architecture, deployment, operation, monitoring and refinement.
• Implement automation and orchestration (GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Ansible) to accelerate delivery and reduce risk.
• Monitor service health with Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager; proactively tune performance and availability.
• Optimize cost and capacity planning while ensuring security and compliance.
• Conduct incident response, root‑cause analysis, and run blameless post‑mortems.
• Evaluate and recommend tooling, platform services and best practices.
Required Skills
• Deep knowledge of AWS (EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.).
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes cluster management, scaling and troubleshooting.
• Strong scripting in Bash, Python or equivalent for automation.
• Expertise in IaC tools: Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent.
• Linux system administration (kernel, networking, storage, security).
• Monitoring & observability frameworks (Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager, ELK).
• Solid understanding of CI‑CD pipelines and cloud security best practices.
Required Education & Certifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field (equivalent experience acceptable).
• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or equivalent highly desirable.