Remote Senior DevOps Engineer II

Description:

• ActiveProspect is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer II to help operate and maintain their SaaS products.
• The role involves collaborating on developing and maintaining tooling to improve infrastructure automation and deployments in the cloud.
• The engineer will work with exciting technologies to build and optimize a platform that services tens of millions of requests per day.
• Responsibilities include implementing and upgrading GitOps Kubernetes (AWS EKS/ArgoCD) and serverless (AWS Lambda) deployment patterns.
• The engineer will develop tooling to enable product development teams to build and deploy software quickly and efficiently.
• They will partner with other engineers to identify optimal cloud infrastructure, networking, and storage design for solutions.
• Daily collaboration with team members to drive best practices and identify innovative strategies for successful delivery is expected.
• The role includes managing credentials and permissions, ensuring system security and health by monitoring and preventing vulnerabilities.
• The engineer will identify, recommend, and implement system improvements to reduce infrastructure costs.
• Participation in on-call rotation to ensure production system availability meets SLAs is required.
• Assisting in compliance and security policies, SOC II testing, and remediation is part of the job.
• Mentoring junior engineers and building talent on the DevOps team is also a responsibility.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 6+ years of experience operating large-scale customer-facing production environments with a focus on uptime and service quality.
• Deep proficiency in working in a cloud environment, specifically AWS, is required.
• Expertise in Kubernetes and containerization technologies such as EKS, Helm, Docker, ECS, ECR, and GitHub Container Registry is necessary.
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Automation using Terraform is essential.
• Familiarity with implementing a successful CI/CD and GitOps workflow across different teams’ needs using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD is required.
• Experience managing distributed database systems like PostgreSQL, RDS, DynamoDB, MongoDB, and MySQL is needed.
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing Apache Kafka (Confluent) is a must.
• Candidates should be comfortable working within Ubuntu Linux operating systems.
• In-depth knowledge of service observability and telemetry tools such as OTel and Datadog is required.
• Understanding of Git/Github and typical versioning workflows is necessary.
• Familiarity with networking concepts and API Gateways, including Firewalls, ACLs, routing, VPN, and Load Balancers, is expected.

Benefits:

• The position offers a flexible work environment with a focus on work-life balance.
• A competitive salary and benefits package is provided, including healthcare, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• There is a retirement plan with company matching.
• Regular team-building events and a global, remote-first company culture are part of the benefits.