Senior DevOps Engineer II - Remote

Overview

ActiveProspect is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer II to help operate and maintain our SaaS products. You’ll be working on our DevOps team to collaborate on developing and maintaining tooling to improve our infrastructure automation and deployments in the cloud.

In Short

• Implement and upgrade GitOps Kubernetes (AWS EKS/ArgoCD) and serverless (AWS Lambda) deployment patterns
• Develop tooling to enable product development teams to build and deploy software as quickly and efficiently as possible
• Partner with other engineers across the organization to identify the optimal cloud infrastructure, networking and storage design for each solution
• Collaborate daily with fellow team members to drive best practices and identify innovative strategies for successful delivery
• Manage credentials and permissions, and ensure the security and health of our systems by monitoring and preventing vulnerabilities
• Identify, recommend, and implement system improvements to reduce infrastructure costs
• Participate in on-call rotation to ensure production’s system availability meets SLAs
• Assist in compliance and security policies, SOC II testing, and remediation
• Mentor junior engineers and build the talent on the DevOps team

Requirements

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

Benefits

• Flexible work environment with a focus on work-life balance
• Competitive salary and benefits package including healthcare, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Retirement plan with company matching
• Regular team-building events and a global, remote-first company culture