What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff DevOps Engineer position at Ursus, Inc.?
JOB TITLE: Staff DevOps Engineer
**TOP 3 SKILLS:**
**TOP 3 SKILLS:**
- 10 years of experience working in a cloud-based DevOps environment, specifically AWS.
- Hands-on experience developing, securing, and operating highly automated and sophisticated cloud infrastructure solutions in AWS.
- Proficient with tools like AWS CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, and SSM Scripts for managing AWS entities and infrastructure automation.
LOCATION: Flexible on remote working from home, if you are located in the USA and reside in one of the following states - CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, *IL, KS, MA, MD, ME, NJ, NC, NY, OR, TN, TX, VA, and WA. There are physical offices in Austin, TX and Tampa, FL, if you prefer a hybrid option.
DURATION: Direct Hire
RATE RANGE: $150,000 - $230,000
POSITION SUMMARY:
As a Staff DevOps Engineer, you are a key member of a smart, forward-thinking, and collaborative DevOps team. You will be responsible for the design, operation, and continuous improvement of our client's cloud infrastructure, ensuring performance, reliability, and security at scale. This role offers the opportunity to contribute at both a strategic and hands-on level, delivering robust infrastructure solutions while mentoring others and driving operational excellence.
You ll collaborate with Development, QA, Security, and Corporate IT teams to ensure our platform remains secure, resilient, and performant. This is a fast-paced and rapidly growing company, and this role is ideal for someone who thrives in highly technical environments and wants to shape the future of DevOps at scale.
As a Staff DevOps Engineer, you are a key member of a smart, forward-thinking, and collaborative DevOps team. You will be responsible for the design, operation, and continuous improvement of our client's cloud infrastructure, ensuring performance, reliability, and security at scale. This role offers the opportunity to contribute at both a strategic and hands-on level, delivering robust infrastructure solutions while mentoring others and driving operational excellence.
You ll collaborate with Development, QA, Security, and Corporate IT teams to ensure our platform remains secure, resilient, and performant. This is a fast-paced and rapidly growing company, and this role is ideal for someone who thrives in highly technical environments and wants to shape the future of DevOps at scale.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Innovative Infrastructure Solutions: Design, develop, and deploy secure, compliant infrastructure in AWS. Drive automation in infrastructure deployments while shaping the long-term technology strategy and planning.
- Build and Improve CI/CD Pipelines: Lead the development and maintenance of a cutting-edge CI/CD framework and quality ecosystem, integrating new testing and automation tools to streamline workflows.
- Establish Best Practices: Define and uphold best practices, procedures, and processes to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery.
- Lead Large-Scale Technical Projects: Take charge of delivering complex infrastructure projects, leveraging your expertise across all infrastructure technologies to ensure scalable and maintainable solutions.
- Monitor and Support Infrastructure: Proactively monitor infrastructure alerts and metrics, offering technical escalation points for production support both during business hours and after-hours.
- Provide Exceptional Service: Troubleshoot and support cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, monitoring systems, alerting, and lead root cause analysis efforts. Own assigned tasks and tickets, ensuring successful resolution.
- Other Duties as needed.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 10 years of experience working in a cloud-based DevOps environment, specifically AWS.
- Hands-on experience developing, securing, and operating highly automated and sophisticated cloud infrastructure solutions in AWS.
- Proficient with tools like AWS CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, and SSM Scripts for managing AWS entities and infrastructure automation.
- Comfortable with agile tools (Jira, Confluence, etc.), version control systems (Git, BitBucket), and deployment strategies for both iterative and continuous development.
- Deep understanding of CI/CD tools, with CircleCI experience being a plus.
- Experience in developing, deploying, and integrating software solutions seamlessly within cloud infrastructure.
- Expert in cloud operations, ensuring the scalability, reliability, and maintainability of cloud-native applications.
- Ability to coach and guide a team, fostering skill growth and career development.
- 7 years of experience working with *nix operating systems (Linux, MacOS, BSD-variants, IBM AIX).
- 5 years of scripting experience with languages like Shell (bash, zsh, etc.), Go, Python, PERL, Tcl/Tk.
- 5 years of experience in production environment monitoring, alerting, and managing change and configuration.
- 5 years working with cloud-based data storage technologies, especially S3 and EFS. Familiarity with NoSQL is a plus.
- 5 years working with message-oriented middleware and queueing technologies like AWS SNS, SQS.
- Experience with RDBMS (RDS, Aurora, Postgres) is required; NoSQL experience will make you stand out.
- Previous experience with caching technologies like Elasticache is highly desirable.
- Deep understanding of OS kernel internals with a focus on performance tuning and networking (e.g., sysctl, CPU scheduling, memory management, TCP congestion control).
- Experience with kernel-based container features like cgroups and namespaces.
- Skilled in filesystem tuning (ext4, XFS) and I/O optimization. Proficient in kernel security mechanisms (SELinux, AppArmor, seccomp) and applying kernel patches or upgrades.
BENEFITS SUMMARY: Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate or annual salary only, unless otherwise stated. In addition to base compensation, full-time roles are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Commuter and 401K benefits with company matching.
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Salary : $150,000 - $230,000
