Senior DevOps Engineer

Jobtailor; Lehi (UT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer in Utah to build scalable AWS systems and manage Kubernetes workloads in production. You will design multi-region, highly available infrastructure with strong observability and cost controls.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and security teams, and contribute to platform roadmaps while participating in on-call incident response and post-incident reviews.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
• Proven track record maturing DevOps practices, not just operating within an established one.
• Experience operating and scaling systems to millions of users or devices.
• Strong experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure at production scale.
• Experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm) and CI/CD design (GitOps preferred).
• Observability, metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting practices.

Responsibilities

• Support reliability and uptime across development, staging, and production environments.
• Design and implement scalable AWS systems supporting growth.
• Help manage multi-regional or highly available infrastructure with SLAs, failover patterns, and capacity planning.
• Identify and remediate infrastructure and deployment security risks.
• Build and maintain CI/CD systems and GitOps workflows.
• Improve developer tooling, deployment pipelines, and environment management.
• Manage Kubernetes and containerized workloads using IaC practices.
• Build and enhance monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting practices.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, including root cause analysis.
• Contribute to infrastructure health, performance, and cost reporting and dashboards.
• Contribute to the infrastructure and platform roadmap.
• Build and maintain runbooks and documentation.
• Support cost management by identifying waste and aligning resources with goals.
• Support new product initiatives with scalable platform solutions and DevOps input.
• Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, security, and platform teams.

Skills

AWS Infrastructure

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

GitOps

CI/CD

Observability

Cost Optimization

Incident Response

Documentation

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

GitOps

CI/CD Systems

Job description

• Support infrastructure reliability and uptime across development, staging, and production environments
• Design and implement scalable, resilient AWS systems supporting customer and device growth
• Help manage multi-regional or highly available infrastructure with clear SLAs, failover patterns, and capacity planning
• Identify and remediate infrastructure and deployment-pipeline security risks
• Build and maintain CI/CD systems and GitOps workflows
• Improve developer tooling, deployment pipelines, and environment management
• Manage Kubernetes and containerized workloads using infrastructure-as-code practices
• Build and enhance monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting practices
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, including root cause analysis and post-incident improvements
• Contribute to infrastructure health, performance, and cost reporting and dashboards
• Contribute to the infrastructure and platform roadmap
• Build and maintain operational processes, runbooks, and documentation
• Support infrastructure cost management by identifying waste and aligning resource usage with business goals
• Support new product initiatives with scalable platform solutions and early DevOps input into architecture decisions
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and the Lead DevOps Engineer to translate business needs into technical initiatives and priorities
• Report to the Director of Platform and Infrastructure

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering
• Demonstrated track record of building or significantly maturing DevOps practices — not just operating within an established one
• Experience operating and scaling systems to millions of users or connected devices
• Strong experience with AWS and cloud-based infrastructure at production scale
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads in production environments
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm) and CI/CD pipeline design (GitOps workflows preferred)
• Strong command of observability practices: metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting systems
• Experience supporting multi-regional or highly available production systems with defined SLAs
• Experience with infrastructure cost optimization — not just monitoring spend, but actively managing it
• Ability to participate in on-call rotations and incident response
• Ability to collaborate with engineering, product, security, and platform teams
• Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Genuine interest in Gabb’s mission

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in building and managing scalable AWS systems, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines while ensuring infrastructure reliability and security. Proficient in observability practices and infrastructure cost optimization, with a strong ability to collaborate across teams and mentor engineers.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• AWS Infrastructure Management
• Kubernetes and Containerization
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm)
• CI/CD Pipeline Design (GitOps)
• Observability Practices (Metrics, Logging, Tracing)

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• DevOps Engineering
• Infrastructure Reliability
• Capacity Planning
• Security Risk Remediation
• Monitoring and Alerting
• Incident Response
• Cost Management
• Root Cause Analysis
• Technical Documentation
• Scalable System Design

Soft Skills

• Strong Communication Skills
• Mentoring and Technical Guidance
• Collaboration with Cross-Functional Teams

Industry Keywords

• Infrastructure Engineering
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Multi-Regional Systems
• Production Scale Systems
• DevOps Practices

Tools & Technologies

• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Helm
• GitOps
• CI/CD Systems