Senior DevOps Engineer — Automation & Reliability Lead

Monks; Cupertino (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

PTO & holidays

401k match

Parental leave

Work-life balance

Career growth

DEI culture

Job summary

Monks is seeking a highly motivated DevOps Engineer to join a team focused on automating solutions, securing data, and owning infrastructure to achieve high availability and reliability.

The role requires on-site presence three days per week (Tue–Thu) and collaboration with application development teams to promote efficiency, scalability and security across the software lifecycle. Experience with cloud platforms and CI/CD is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in operational roles (Cloud Operations, Site Reliability, DevOps, etc.)
• Experience with GitOps-based deployments, enabling CI/CD with Jenkins, ArgoCD or similar systems.
• Proficiency with logging and observability technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk or similar.
• Proficiency with designing and operating applications in a public cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Expertise in operating and integrating with AWS services such as RDS, EKS, CloudWatch, etc...
• Expertise with containerization technologies such as Docker.
• Expertise with container orchestration such Kubernetes and Helm.
• Expertise in configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform).
• Expertise in maintaining and troubleshooting Linux-based systems.
• Continuously work with the engineering teams to improve reliability, implementing actionable monitoring framework.
• Analytical & problem solving skills, ability to communicate ideas clearly.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, with a strong focus on teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Designing engineering platforms and tooling that simplify the process of building, deploying, and operating applications.
• Developing automation for common development and operational tasks.
• Monitoring system performance and availability, and remediating as necessary.
• Collaborating with software and data engineering team on finding operationally sustainable solutions to engineering problems.

Skills

GitOps

CI/CD

Observability

Public Cloud

AWS Services

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

Ansible

Linux

Monitoring

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS or Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Monks is seeking a highly motivated DevOps Engineer to join a team focused on automating solutions, securing data, and owning infrastructure to achieve high availability and reliability.

The role requires on-site presence three days per week (Tue–Thu) and collaboration with application development teams to promote efficiency, scalability and security across the software lifecycle. Experience with cloud platforms and CI/CD is essential.