Senior DevOps Engineer — Cloud Automation & Reliability

Socket.dev; Mountain Pine (AR); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev in Mountain Pine, Arkansas is seeking a seasoned Senior DevOps Engineer to lead our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and reliability initiatives. You will design scalable, secure systems and guide engineering toward best practices for long-term stability and efficiency.

The role requires 6+ years in DevOps and strong AWS, IaC, and CI/CD skills, plus leadership capabilities to mentor the team and drive cost optimization and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in DevOps or cloud infrastructure.
• Proven track record designing production cloud environments.
• Strong AWS expertise incl. VPC, IAM, and managed services.
• Proficiency with IaC and CI/CD tooling.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable AWS cloud architectures across multiple environments, ensuring security, resilience, and compliance.
• Develop and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK, establishing standards for maintainability and reusability.
• Create and optimize CI/CD pipelines, supporting automated testing, low-downtime deployments, and reliable rollback procedures.
• Lead incident response efforts, coordinate communication during outages, and conduct postmortem analyses to prevent recurrence.
• Establish security standards including secrets management, access controls, and patching, while monitoring system health through observability tools.
• Mentor engineering team members through code reviews, technical guidance, and establishing best practices for infrastructure and deployment processes.
• Analyze cloud costs, identify optimization opportunities, and implement strategies to improve efficiency and manage expenditures

Skills

DevOps leadership

Cloud infrastructure design

AWS

CI/CD automation

Incident response

Technical documentation

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Job description

Socket.dev in Mountain Pine, Arkansas is seeking a seasoned Senior DevOps Engineer to lead our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and reliability initiatives. You will design scalable, secure systems and guide engineering toward best practices for long-term stability and efficiency.

The role requires 6+ years in DevOps and strong AWS, IaC, and CI/CD skills, plus leadership capabilities to mentor the team and drive cost optimization and operational excellence.