Hybrid Senior DevOps Engineer: Automation & Reliability

Monks; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Generous PTO

401(k)

Parental leave

Career growth

Diversity & inclusion

Flexible work policy

Job summary

Monks is seeking a world-class DevOps Engineer who is passionate about automation and operational excellence across our cloud-first infrastructure. You will design platforms, develop automation for routine tasks, monitor performance, and collaborate with software and data teams to improve reliability throughout the lifecycle.

The role is on-site three days a week in Austin, with strong emphasis on teamwork and scalable, secure systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in operational roles (Cloud Operations, Site Reliability, DevOps, etc...)
• Experience with GitOps-based deployments, enabling CI/CD with Jenkins, ArgoCD or similar systems.
• Proficiency with logging and observability technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk or similar.
• Proficiency with designing and operating applications in a public cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc...)
• Expertise in operating and integrating with AWS services such as RDS, EKS, CloudWatch, etc...
• Expertise with containerization technologies such as Docker.
• Expertise with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes and Helm.
• Expertise in configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform).
• Expertise in maintaining and troubleshooting Linux-based systems.
• Continuously work with the engineering teams to improve reliability, implementing actionable monitoring framework.
• Analytical & problem solving skills, ability to communicate ideas clearly.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, with a strong focus on teamwork.
• 10+ years in operational roles (preferred).
• 1+ years in Software Engineering roles or equivalent software architecture roles.
• Experience with preparing and executing PCI, SOC2, SOX, or other compliance audits.

Responsibilities

• Designing engineering platforms and tooling that simplify the process of building, deploying, and operating applications.
• Developing automation for common development and operational tasks.
• Monitoring system performance and availability, and remediating as necessary.
• Collaborating with software and data engineering team on finding operationally sustainable solutions to engineering problems.

Skills

5+ years ops

GitOps CI/CD

Observability tools

Public cloud design

AWS services

Docker

Kubernetes & Helm

Config mgmt tools

Linux systems

Reliability & monitoring

Analytical skills

Teamwork/communication

10+ years ops (preferred)

1+ years software engineering

Compliance audits

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS or Engineering

Tools

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

AWS

EKS

CloudWatch

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Monks is seeking a world-class DevOps Engineer who is passionate about automation and operational excellence across our cloud-first infrastructure. You will design platforms, develop automation for routine tasks, monitor performance, and collaborate with software and data teams to improve reliability throughout the lifecycle.

The role is on-site three days a week in Austin, with strong emphasis on teamwork and scalable, secure systems.