Senior DevOps Engineer

The Senior DevOps Engineer is the architect of our cloud-native ecosystem. This role focuses on maximizing engineering velocity through sophisticated automation, impeccable system reliability, and advanced Kubernetes orchestration. As a senior member of the technical team, this individual takes full ownership of the infrastructure roadmap, ensuring that the platform is secure, scalable, and optimized for high-performance critical business applications.

What You'll be Doing

Expert Kubernetes Orchestration & Management

• Cluster Architecture: Designs, deploys, and maintains production-grade Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE, or self-managed) across multiple environments.
• Workload Optimization: Manages complex scheduling, resource quotas, and horizontal/vertical scaling to ensure cost-efficiency and performance.
• Networking & Connectivity: Configures and maintains advanced networking components, including Ingress Controllers, Service Meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd), and CNI plugins.
• Storage & Persistence: Implements and manages persistent storage solutions (CSI) for stateful applications, ensuring data integrity and high availability.
• Upgrades & Lifecycle: Executes seamless cluster upgrades and maintenance with zero downtime, utilizing blue/green or canary deployment strategies.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation

• Foundation as Code: Provisions and manages 100% of the cloud infrastructure through IaC frameworks like Terraform, OpenTofu, or Pulumi.
• Module Development: Creates reusable, version-controlled infrastructure modules that allow developers to provision resources in a standardized, self-service manner.
• Configuration Management: Implements automated configuration management to maintain consistency across distributed systems.

Advanced CI/CD & Developer Experience

• Pipeline Engineering: Builds and optimizes sophisticated CI/CD pipelines that automate the entire path to production, integrating automated testing, security scanning, and deployment gates.
• GitOps Implementation: Drives the adoption of GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux) to ensure the cluster state is always synchronized with the source of truth in Git.
• Local Development Flow: Optimizes the "inner loop" of development, providing tools and environments that allow engineers to test Kubernetes-native applications locally or in ephemeral cloud environments.

Security, Compliance & Observability

• Cluster Hardening: Implements rigorous security protocols, including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Network Policies, and Pod Security Standards.
• Compliance and Governance: Ensures all infrastructure meets applicable regulatory standards through automated audit logging and encryption at rest/in transit.
• Full-Stack Visibility: Designs and maintains a comprehensive observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, or similar) to provide deep insights into cluster health and application performance.
• Incident Response: Serves as a primary technical lead for infrastructure-related incidents, performing deep-dive root cause analysis and implementing automated preventions.

Observability, SRE & Performance Analysis

• Observability Architecture: Designs and scales enterprise observability solutions, leveraging metrics, logging, and tracing to provide comprehensive visibility into platform health, performance, and reliability.
• SLO/SLI Engineering: Partners with product and engineering teams to define meaningful Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs), establishing error budgets that balance velocity with reliability.
• Proactive Alerting & Self-Healing: Develops sophisticated, non-fatiguing alerting strategies and implements automated remediation scripts to resolve infrastructure anomalies.
• Cost Observability: Implements FinOps tooling to provide granular visibility into cluster spend, attributing costs to specific teams, projects, or epics.
• Chaos Engineering: Regularly conducts failure injection experiments to validate system resilience and ensure the infrastructure can handle regional outages or component failures.

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) is required. Additional CKS or CKAD is highly preferred.
• Deep expertise in at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) with specific focus on managed Kubernetes services.
• Strong ability to write production-quality code in Go, Python, or Ruby for automation and custom tooling.
• Advanced understanding of Linux systems, networking protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS) and container runtimes
• Can proactively identifies and addresses technical debt, driving infrastructure initiatives aligned with long-term business objectives.
• Ability to act as a trusted technical mentor, sharing expertise and elevating the organization's Kubernetes and cloud-native capabilities.
• Ability to communicate complex infrastructure concepts, risks, and constraints clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Compensation & Perks

• $150,000 - $180,000 Annual Compensation.
• Annual Bonus.
• Health & Dental Benefits.
• Health & Wellness Spending Accounts.
• Perkopolis Staff Discounts.
• On-site Gym + Plant Fitness Membership Concession.
• Coffee Bar with Barista + Unlimited Snacks.
• Monthly Events, Friday Lunches & Daily Breakfast.
• Professional Growth & Development Opportunities.

Space Ops welcomes applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

AI Disclosure: As part of our recruitment process, we may use AI-enabled tools to support the screening and assessment of applications. All AI-generated recommendations and outputs are reviewed and validated by our recruitment team.