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Senior DevOps Engineer
San Francisco, CA
$175,000 - $210,000
Hybrid
Were 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, youll take ownership of our cloud infrastructure and delivery pipelines. Youll 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
San Francisco, CA
$175,000 - $210,000
Hybrid
Were 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, youll take ownership of our cloud infrastructure and delivery pipelines. Youll 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Salary : $175,000 - $210,000