Sr DevOps Engineer
DistantJob1 year ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure, primarily on AWS.
- Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and similar tools.
- Architect and support serverless and event-driven solutions using AWS Lambda, ECS Fargate, and related services.
- Manage infrastructure as code with CloudFormation, Terraform, and related tools.
- Establish monitoring, alerting, logging, backup, disaster recovery, and failover systems.
- Manage secrets, identity systems, access controls, encryption, and audit mechanisms.
- Partner with development teams on infrastructure requirements, deployment approaches, and operational tooling.
- Resolve production incidents and conduct post-incident analysis.
- Research and adopt DevOps technologies and practices that improve performance, reliability, automation, and security.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 6+ years focused on DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Experience managing production environments with comprehensive infrastructure responsibilities.
- Extensive AWS expertise across compute, storage, networking, and identity management services.
- Experience with AWS Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, API Gateway, and ECS Fargate.
- Advanced Docker and container orchestration experience with Kubernetes, ECS, or GKE.
- Proficiency with GitHub Actions, CircleCI, ArgoCD, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD platforms.
- Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Go.
- Experience with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK stack for observability.
- Understanding of network design, security frameworks, zero-trust access architectures, secrets management, and infrastructure-level access policy enforcement.
- Strong troubleshooting, root cause analysis, collaboration, and communication skills.
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About DistantJob
DistantJob is a privately held staffing firm that recruits, vets, and places remote software and IT professionals for companies worldwide. Based in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, it supports direct hires and long-term remote engagements and can act as an employer of record to manage local contracts, payroll, and compliance.