Senior DevOps Engineer: Global Platform & Edge Infra

Alpaca; United States; Remote; AUD 204,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Benefits

Stock Options

New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time $

Monthly Stipend: $150 per month via a

Competitive Salary & Stock Options

Job summary

Alpaca is recruiting a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, operate and improve the platforms behind software delivery, edge and L7 networking. You’ll join a globally distributed team that follows a follow-the-sun model to keep systems covered around the clock.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, deep Kubernetes experience across clusters, and strong IaC/CICD expertise. The role emphasizes platform-as-a-product thinking and on-call collaboration across regions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or SRE role.
• Experience carrying multi-quarter platform work end to end in a complex environment with Kubernetes.
• Deep production Kubernetes experience across multiple clusters with Helm.
• Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform and GitOps; least-privilege mindset.
• Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines at scale (GitHub Actions).
• GitOps delivery with Argo CD or similar tool.
• Hands-on with Google Cloud (GKE) day to day.
• Strong L7 networking fundamentals and edge-to-workload debugging.
• Platform-as-a-Product mindset for self-serve developer platforms.
• Willingness to Follow-The-Sun on-call in APAC/EMEA hours.

Responsibilities

• Help engineers troubleshoot across the stack and share on-call duties.
• Participate in Follow-The-Sun on-call, triage alerts and drive post-mortems.
• Own the path a change takes to production using GitHub Actions, Argo CD, and Helm.
• Run high-traffic edge and API gateway infra serving global traffic.
• Operate internal tooling (Grafana, Sentry, Teleport, Metabase, Atlantis).
• Advance Platform-as-a-Product with self-serve capabilities.
• Lead end-to-end improvement projects from problem framing to production.

Skills

DevOps experience

Kubernetes multi-cluster

Terraform

GitOps

CI/CD pipelines

Argo CD

GKE

L7 networking

Go

Linux basics

Security/compliance

Tools

Grafana

Sentry

Teleport

Metabase

Atlantis

Backstage

Job description

Alpaca is recruiting a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, operate and improve the platforms behind software delivery, edge and L7 networking. You’ll join a globally distributed team that follows a follow-the-sun model to keep systems covered around the clock.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, deep Kubernetes experience across clusters, and strong IaC/CICD expertise. The role emphasizes platform-as-a-product thinking and on-call collaboration across regions.