Senior DevOps Engineer
$145,000–$165,000 year
Remote · United States
Job Summary
Senior DevOps Engineer responsible for owning and hardening our cloud infrastructure and data pipelines. Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines (migration from GitLab CI to GitHub Actions), manage and harden EKS clusters, oversee RDS/Aurora Postgres fleet, operate Kafka/CDC pipelines, and govern the data lake with Iceberg and Snowflake. Provide infrastructure-as-code through Terraform, embed security practices (SOC 2, OWASP) into pipelines, contribute to on-call and incident response, drive cost efficiency across AWS, and collaborate with analytics and data teams on dbt environments and data workflows.
Required Qualifications
- +5 years of hands-on experience operating production infrastructure on AWS
- Deep, practical Kubernetes experience (ideally EKS)
- Strong production experience with RDS/Aurora Postgres (replication, performance, backups)
- Solid command of CI/CD pipelines and tooling (GitLab CI and/or GitHub Actions)
- Fluency with infrastructure as code (Terraform)
- Security foundation: OWASP Top 10, secure pipelines, least-privilege IAM
- Experience supporting SOC 2 or ISO 27001 from the infrastructure side
- Experience provisioning and operating Snowflake and/or Apache Iceberg data lakehouse
- Familiarity with dbt-based transformation workflows
- Strong Linux fundamentals and scripting (Bash plus Go/Python)
- Ability to operate in a hands-on senior role with ownership
- Cost optimization and run-the-business mindset
- Observability: metrics, logging, tracing, alerting
- Experience with Kafka/Strimzi, Debezium CDC pipelines
- Cloud data warehouse/lakehouse operations (S3, Iceberg, Snowflake)
- Automation and reliability improvements in production environments
- Incident response and on-call discipline
- Security and compliance integration into CI/CD
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