Senior DevOps Engineer

Life; Edmond (OK); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Comprehensive health insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Life insurance

Wellness program

Job summary

Life seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to ensure the integrity, performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of our cloud-based infrastructure supporting Life.Church platforms. You will oversee automation, regular maintenance, and incident response while championing best practices and responsible resource stewardship.

The role emphasizes collaboration, leadership, and continuous improvement, with focus on security controls and cost optimization across cloud services.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication to maintain relationships.
• Systematic, organized approach to completing assignments accurately and on time.
• Ability to explain complex processes clearly and concisely.
• Self-motivation, initiative, and independent decision-making.
• Strong collaboration within a team and leadership to guide others.
• Professional certifications in cloud engineering preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain software to automate infrastructure operations and deployments.
• Assess solutions to meet business needs and evaluate outcomes.
• Minimize downtime by enforcing robust operations standards.
• Perform regular maintenance and monitoring of cloud infrastructure.
• Monitor performance and SLIs to ensure objectives are met.
• Respond to incidents for high-severity site reliability issues.
• Implement and enforce security controls for infrastructure and applications.
• Research best practices and explore improvements.
• Define and enforce cloud DevOps processes and standards.
• Develop and train SREs on technologies and best practices.
• Monitor and manage infrastructure and development costs.
• Engage with vendors to evaluate solutions and negotiate contracts.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Self-motivation

Independent work

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Bachelor’s degree in CS preferred

Job description

The YouVersion Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for ensuring the integrity, performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of the cloud-based infrastructure and related systems supporting the applications and platforms operated by Life.Church. This role will oversee and assist with the development of software, the performance of regular maintenance, and respond to escalated site reliability issues. The Senior DevOps Engineer is also responsible for researching industry best practices and stewarding resources for the team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain software to automate and support infrastructure operations and ensure seamless deployments.
• Explore and evaluate solutions to meet business needs that lead to implementing solutions and evaluating the outcome.
• Limit system downtime by defining and enforcing operations and development standards.
• Perform regular maintenance and monitoring for cloud infrastructure systems and services.
• Monitor application performance and service-level indicators to ensure that objectives are met.
• Respond and initiate incident responses for high-severity site reliability issues.
• Implement and enforce infrastructure and application security controls.
• Research new solutions, improvement areas, and best-practices.
• Define, document, and enforce processes and standards around cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices.
• Develop and train Site Reliability Engineers on technologies and best practices.
• Monitor and steward infrastructure and development-related costs.
• Interact with product vendors to evaluate solutions and negotiate contract agreements.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills in order to maintain relationships and partnerships.
• Maintain a systematic and organized approach to completing assignments accurately, thoroughly, and timely.
• Clearly explain complicated and detailed processes in a concise and simple way.
• Ability to self-motivate, take initiative, make independent decisions, and problem-solve.
• Ability to collaborate in a team environment and work independently.
• Strong leadership skills and understanding on developing and guiding others.
• High School Diploma or GED.
• 7+ years of related work experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science preferred.
• Professional certifications in cloud engineering programs preferred.

Benefits We Offer

• Paid parental leave, including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• Generous employer-paid leave for the use of vacation, sick time, and other qualifying reasons.
• Innovative and comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance that provides team members with useful resources and savings to navigate their holistic health.
• Life insurance policy provided for all staff members at 2x annual salary at no cost. Additional life insurance coverage is available to purchase.
• Short-Term and Long-Term disability is covered at 100% for full-time qualified staff members.
• Comprehensive wellness and mental health benefits allow staff to proactively invest in their physical and emotional health.
• Generous 401(k) retirement plan allowing a team member to have up to 12.5% (including employee contribution, employer match, and employer discretionary contribution) contributed into their account in their first year. It doesn't stop there—the more years on staff, the greater the investment!
• $160 annually in development dollars for team members to invest in their professional growth.
• Casual dress and work environment.
• And much more!

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