Aug 01, 2025 - TASL TaxAct Admin Services, LLC is hiring a remote Senior DevOps Engineer. Location: USA.
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Role Description
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cloud-native technologies, particularly within the AWS ecosystem, and a deep understanding of containerization and orchestration. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our infrastructure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security of our services.
- Infrastructure Management: Design, deploy, and manage scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Pipeline Implementation: Develop and manage Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate the software delivery process, ensuring faster and more reliable releases.
- Containerization & Orchestration: Implement and manage containerized environments using tools like Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring applications are efficiently deployed, managed, and scaled.
- Employ your expertise in blue/green deployments with canary to implement a robust release strategy that minimizes downtime and risk.
- Configure and integrate observability tools such as DataDog and CloudWatch to enable efficient monitoring, logging, and alerting within the Kubernetes environment.
- Configure and manage ingress controllers (e.g., Nginx, Traefik) to ensure secure and reliable traffic routing within the Kubernetes cluster.
- Ensure security best practices are followed, including managing access controls, patching vulnerabilities, and performing regular security assessments.
- Participate in incident response & production support rotation.
- Partner with Site Reliability Engineering team in providing retrospective Root Cause Analysis (RCA’s) on critical production incidents.
- Communication and Collaboration: Work closely with development, QA, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and continuous delivery of services.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions.
- Provide education, guidance and support to junior DevOps engineers, share best practices, and contribute to team knowledge sharing.
- Educate and mentor team members on Kubernetes implementation, best practices, and blue/green deployments with canary.
- Stay up to date with the latest trends and advancements in cloud technologies, Kubernetes, AWS services, and observability tools, and proactively suggest innovative solutions to enhance our cloud infrastructure.
- Automate, automate, automate.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years’ experience in a DevOps engineering role in a cloud-native microservices environment with a track record of successful deliveries.
- In-depth knowledge of AWS services (e.g., EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation, etc.).
- Strong expertise in containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git).
- Experience with release management & deployment tools like AWS Code Pipeline, Cloud Formation, AWS Code Deploy, MS ADO, etc.
- Solid understanding of zero-downtime deployments and fast rollback strategies.
- Ability to design and implement process automation using scripting languages e.g., PowerShell, Bash, Python, etc.
- Experience with performance optimization, monitoring, log management and alerting tools.
- Working knowledge of one or more AI/ML tools in the DevOps space (e.g., GitHub Copilot, CodeWhisperer, AIOps platforms, etc.).
- Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive mindset.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment.
- AWS Certification (Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer Professional) a huge plus.
- Experience implementing service mesh such as Istio or Linkerd.
Benefits
- Supportive, open, and inclusive atmosphere.
- Team that values your contributions.