Senior DevOps Engineer

Confidential Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join its high-impact engineering team. In this fully remote role, you'll design, maintain, and scale an AWS-based infrastructure using Terraform, while driving operational excellence and contributing to architecture decisions. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in DevOps, with a strong understanding of CI/CD practices and cloud services.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Tuition assistance

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/platform engineering.
• Proven ability to independently drive infrastructure projects.
• Deep expertise with AWS cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale infrastructure using Terraform.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
• Drive operational excellence and observability.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD practices

Scripting

Tools

GitHub Actions

Protocol Buffers

Job description

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Senior DevOps Engineer, Full Time, Permanent role, Remote (continental USA).

Join a small, high-impact engineering team building and scaling a modern cloud-native platform. The systems are fully AWS-based, the infrastructure is codified in Terraform, and we deploy via GitHub Actions from a monorepo written in Go. We believe in automation, security, performance, and clear ownership.

Responsibilities include;

• Designing, maintaining, and scaling infrastructure using Terraform and Terraform Cloud (workspace isolation, modular design).
• Building and managing services in AWS, including:
• ECS Fargate, Lambda, EC2
• API Gateway, CloudFront, Route 53
• SQS, SNS, and S3
• Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions to automate test, build, and deployment.
• Support the Golang monorepo, ensuring scalable build and deployment patterns for commands and Lambdas.
• Implementing and maintaining automated Protocol Buffer build pipelines.
• Driving observability and operational excellence.
• Acting as a key stakeholder in architecture decisions, deployment patterns, and developer tooling.

Experienced required includes.

• 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/platform engineering.
• Proven ability to independently drive infrastructure projects end-to-end.
• Deep expertise with AWS cloud services and secure, scalable system design.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and Terraform Cloud in multi-workspace environments.
• Fluency in CI/CD practices, especially GitHub Actions.
• Familiarity with Go-based monorepos and modern build tooling.
• Experience managing Protocol Buffers at scale (e.g., buf, CI pipelines).
• Scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python, or Go).
• Clear communicator, collaborator, and documentation advocate.

What we offer

• Lead platform efforts without red tape
• Work on a modern stack with ownership and autonomy
• Help shape engineering best practices from the ground up
• Competitive salary, benefits, and fully remote flexibility

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Software Development

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Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Tuition assistance

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