Senior DevOps Engineer — Remote Infra & Platform Lead

Rocket Learning; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Rocket Learning is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and scale our infrastructure while leading a small DevOps team. You will manage multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and open-source tooling, ensuring security and privacy are integral to architecture and operations.

You will drive infrastructure-as-code, build observability, and mentor 3 engineers, collaborating across engineering, product, and security to deliver reliable, mission-critical systems for vulnerable populations.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and GCP in multi-cloud environments.
• Proven track record with Kubernetes, Terraform/Ansible, and modern CI/CD.
• Experience self-hosting and operating open-source infrastructure tools in production.
• Solid background in security and privacy engineering for sensitive data handling.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate secure, highly available infrastructure across AWS and GCP.
• Own MongoDB Atlas provisioning, scaling, backups, and performance tuning.

Skills

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Open-source tooling

Security engineering

CI/CD

Linux administration

Scripting (Python/Bash/Go)

Prometheus/Grafana

MongoDB Atlas

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

SigNoz

SonarQube

OpenBao/Vault

Job description

Rocket Learning is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and scale our infrastructure while leading a small DevOps team. You will manage multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and open-source tooling, ensuring security and privacy are integral to architecture and operations.

You will drive infrastructure-as-code, build observability, and mentor 3 engineers, collaborating across engineering, product, and security to deliver reliable, mission-critical systems for vulnerable populations.