Senior DevOps Engineer

ClearGov; United States; Remote; USD 77,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote and flexible work environment

Competitive compensation and benefits

Opportunities to grow as we scale

Job summary

ClearGov is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to strengthen the reliability, scalability, and security of our AWS cloud infrastructure while optimizing costs and enabling developer self-service. You will align with product engineering teams to design robust architectures, implement automation, and improve observability across our SaaS platform.

You’ll mentor peers, contribute to runbooks and standards, and evaluate cloud, security, and tooling platforms, including Datadog and Terraform, to keep

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering with solution architecture exposure.
• Deep AWS expertise with familiarity of Azure and Google Cloud.
• IaC experience with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid FinOps and cloud-cost optimization knowledge.
• Observability experience with Datadog (or equivalent) and incident response.
• Container tech experience (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS).
• Scripting in Python or Bash.
• AI-enabled DevOps workflows experience.
• Security fundamentals (IAM, secrets management, vulnerability remediation).
• Strong cross-functional communication and mentoring abilities.

Responsibilities

• Own Cloud Infrastructure Design and Operations across AWS (with exposure to Azure/Google Cloud) for a SaaS org of ~80 engineers.
• Drive Cost Visibility and FinOps practices across cloud platforms.
• Improve reliability, observability, and incident response; participate in on-call rotations.
• Develop and maintain IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation.
• Enable developer self-service with tooling and paved paths.
• Apply AI-enabled DevOps practices with security guardrails.
• Support platform/vendor evaluations and integrations (AWS, Datadog, Databricks).
• Mentor engineers and contribute to runbooks and standards.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Cloud architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD

Datadog

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS

Python

Bash

IAM & security

Job description

About ClearGov

ClearGov is building the modern financial operating layer for the public sector.

We help US local governments and school districts plan, budget, report, and communicate their finances with clarity and confidence. From long-term planning to financial reporting, compliance, and transparency, our platform connects the work finance teams are already doing and makes it easier to deliver for their communities.

Today, more than 2,000 public sector organizations use ClearGov, and we continue to expand our platform and reach as we grow.

Our Core Values

• Be Clear & Credible
  • We are authentic in our interactions, communicating with clarity, speaking with honesty, and following through with consistency. We turn transparency into our greatest competitive advantage.
• Be Human
  • We are human partners to our colleagues and customers and lead with consideration and kindness - making space for others to do the same. We turn empathy into a shared strength.
• Be Better Together
  • We are committed to building an inclusive community where everyone thrives. We share successes, support each other through challenges, and show up for our teammates the way we show up for our customers. We turn togetherness into our greatest advantage and collaboration into our greatest multiplier.
• Be Honourable/Honorable
  • We are responsible to our colleagues and customers. We bring our full selves to every conversation, every project, every decision, and every relationship. We act with intention, deliver on our commitments, and lead with integrity - even when no one is watching. We turn honour into the foundation that powers everything we do.
• Be Connected
  • We are culture builders where people are seen, welcomed, and celebrated. We show up in every interaction - the laughs, the wins, the hard days. We turn connection into opportunities for people to feel they belong.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• You take ownership and follow through
• You communicate clearly and effectively
• You’re comfortable solving problems and figuring things out
• You learn quickly and adapt as things change
• You care about the team, not just your own work
• You bring a sense of humor and perspective to what you do

About the Opportunity

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team.

This role is responsible for driving the reliability, scalability, and security of our AWS cloud infrastructure while optimizing cloud costs and empowering developer self-service. You'll combine senior DevOps expertise with solution architect skill sets to design system architecture, provide innovative solutions for complex technical challenges, and work closely with product engineering teams and engineering leads to streamline deployment pipelines, maintain robust observability, and scale our SaaS platform efficiently.

What You’ll Do (Key Responsibilities)

• Own Cloud Infrastructure Design and Operations: Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure AWS infrastructure (with working exposure to Azure and Google Cloud) supporting a SaaS engineering organization of ~80 engineers - covering compute, networking, storage, and security architecture.
• Drive Cost Visibility and FinOps Practices: Implement and maintain cloud cost tagging, monitoring, and optimization practices; identify and execute on cost-saving opportunities across AWS (and secondary clouds); partner with engineering leads on cost accountability.
• Strengthen Reliability, Observability, and Incident Response: Build and maintain observability using Datadog (or similar) - logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting; participate in on-call rotation; lead or support incident response and postmortems; drive down MTTR.
• Build and Improve Infrastructure Automation: Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent), CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, environment provisioning, and secret management to increase developer velocity and reduce toil.
• Enable Developer Self-Service: Build tooling and paved paths that let product engineers ship and manage their own services safely, reducing DevOps as a bottleneck.
• Apply AI-Enabled DevOps Practices: Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted tooling for infrastructure review, incident triage, anomaly detection, documentation, and CI/CD improvements, with appropriate security and change-management guardrails.
• Support Platform and Vendor Evaluation: Provide technical evaluation and hands‑on implementation input for cloud, observability, security, and developer‑tooling platforms (e.g., AWS, Datadog, Databricks); execute on integrations and configuration.
• Mentor and Raise the Bar: Mentor other engineers on infrastructure, reliability, and DevOps best practices; contribute to runbooks, standards, and technical documentation; review infrastructure and pipeline changes from peers.

What You Bring (Critical Skills + Experience)

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering, ideally in a SaaS environment, with demonstrated solution architecture experience designing highly available cloud systems and innovative solutions.
• Deep hands‑on AWS expertise across architecture, security, networking, compute, storage, and cost management; AWS certification is a plus. Working familiarity with Azure and Google Cloud.
• Practical experience with infrastructure-as-code, preferably Terraform, as well as CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, environment management, and secrets management.
• Working knowledge of FinOps practices, including cost visibility, tagging, forecasting, and cloud cost optimization.
• Strong production‑operations and observability experience with Datadog or equivalent tools, including logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and incident response. Experience using operational metrics such as deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and MTTR to improve reliability.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS, along with policy‑as‑code and cloud governance.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Working knowledge of AI‑enabled DevOps workflows, including automation, infrastructure review, incident triage, anomaly detection, cost optimization, and developer self‑service.
• Solid understanding of security fundamentals, including IAM, network security, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation.
• Comfortable owning production reliability for systems supporting multiple engineering teams, applying sound judgment to cloud, IaC, CI/CD, security, and governance standards.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience partnering cross‑functionally with product and engineering teams and mentoring less‑senior engineers.

Compensation:

• In the spirit of transparency, we are excited to share the base salary for this position is $110,000 - $140,000 CAD and exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses. If you are hired at ClearGov, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, interview performance, education and/or experience. In addition to those factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is the full base salary for the role. Hiring beyond the base range would not be typical in order to allow for future & continued salary growth. We also offer a generous compensation and benefits package (more information on benefits listed below).

Why Join ClearGov

• Remote and flexible work environment
• Meaningful work that impacts communities across the United States
• Collaborative, high‑performing team
• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Opportunities to grow as we scale

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision insurance
• FSA, HSA, and/or Dependent Care FSA (US)
• Life + AD&D insurance, plus short-term and long-term disability insurance (US)
• Life + disability insurance (Canada)
• 401(k) (US) / RRSP (Canada) with 3.5% match
• 10 company holidays
• 3 wellness days
• Paid vacation time off
• Sick and safe time off
• Paid parental leave
• Paid bereavement leave
• Paid jury duty + civic service leave
• Employee assistance program
• 2 summer days + annual end-of-year "Dimming of the Lights"
• Employee referral bonus program

Equal Opportunity Employer ClearGov is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or any other protected characteristic. Hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.