Senior DevOps Engineer

The Mice Groups, Inc.; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Part time

Job summary

The Mice Groups, Inc. is hiring a DevOps/SRE to enhance operational efficiency, automation, and reliability for the ADAS web lifecycle. You will collaborate with Japan- and US-based teams to ensure smooth development and deployment of web applications.

Key focus areas include CI/CD, cloud infrastructure on AWS, and IaC with Terraform, in a distributed, onsite/hybrid Palo Alto setting.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional DevOps / SRE experience.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Proficiency in setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions).
• Containerization: Solid experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including deployment, scaling, and management.
• Cloud Providers: Hands-on experience with AWS (strongly preferred).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency with Terraform for managing cloud infrastructure.
• Monitoring & Logging: Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, ELK stack).
• Strong communication skills in cross-functional environments involving engineers, product owners, UX designers, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Incident Response: Provide extended US coverage for SEV-1/SEV-2 incidents during US working hours.
• Automation: Identify manual processes and implement automation solutions to streamline workflows.
• Infrastructure Management: Deploy and maintain cloud-based infrastructure on AWS using IaC (Terraform).
• Monitoring & Observability: Build and maintain monitoring systems to meet 99.5% uptime targets.
• Pipeline Management: Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions).
• Security Patch Deployment: Apply security patches and updates within 5 days of release and notify tenants within 24 hours.

Skills

CI/CD Pipelines

Containerization

Cloud Providers

Monitoring & Logging

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

AWS

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Sentry

ELK

Job description

Contract Length: 3+ months extending - likely 12-18 months

Location: Onsite / Hybrid, WbyT Palo Alto office. Standard PST business hours. Meetings in the late afternoon / early evening with teams in the JST time zone.

The primary responsibility of this role is to drive operational efficiency, automation, and reliability of a framework designed to support the web development software lifecycle--from infrastructure provisioning to frontend and backend development, testing, deployment, security compliance, and observability. This role focuses on automation, managing infrastructure, monitoring systems, and incident response for the ADAS group.

The ideal candidate will work closely with Japan-based DevOps team and Japan- and US-based ADAS engineering teams to ensure streamlined development and reliable deployment of ADAS team web applications.

The candidate should be comfortable working with a distributed team spanning Japan and North America

Responsibilities

• Incident Response: Provide extended US coverage for SEV-1/SEV-2 incidents during US working hours.
• Automation: Identify manual processes and implement automation
• solutions to streamline workflows, reduce deployment times, and
• eliminate repetitive tasks that could overwhelm the DevOps team during peak periods.
• Infrastructure Management: Deploy and maintain cloud-based
• infrastructure on AWS (S3, Aurora/Postgres, IAM, Route 53, WAF, Cloudfront) leveraging IaC practices (Terraform) for scalability and reliability.
• Monitoring & Observability: Build and maintain monitoring systems to track application performance and infrastructure health. Ensure production observability meets the standards required for 99.5% uptime targets.
• Pipeline Management: Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) to ensure efficient and consistent delivery of software across ADAS environments.
• Security Patch Deployment: Apply critical security patches and core module updates within 5 days of official release. Notify tenants within 24 hours of security advisories.

Documentation: Document processes, configurations, runbooks, and best practices to ensure knowledge sharing and maintain operational continuity.

Required (MUST)

• 3+ years of professional DevOps / SRE experience.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Proficiency in setting up, maintaining, and
• troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions).
• Containerization: Solid experience with Docker and Kubernetes,
• including deployment, scaling, and management.
• Cloud Providers: Hands-on experience with AWS (strongly preferred). Strong understanding of IaaS and PaaS offerings, IAM, and networking within cloud environments.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency with Terraform for
• managing cloud infrastructure.
• Monitoring & Logging: Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, ELK stack) for performance tracking and troubleshooting.
• Strong communication skills in cross-functional environments involving engineers, product owners, UX designers, and leadership.

Nice to Have (WANT)

• Solid experience working with service mesh (e.g., Istio).
• Security Knowledge: Understanding of DevSecOps principles, including secure deployment practices, vulnerability scanning, and incident response.
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile delivery (Scrum / Kanban).
• Prior experience in multi-tenant or enterprise-scale platforms.
• Experience with backup/restore automation and disaster recovery procedures.
• Familiarity with Nx monorepo tooling and multi-tenant architectures.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at The Mice Groups Inc. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.