Senior Platform & DevOps Architect

Tazapay; Bloomington (IN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Tazapay is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps/SRE to architect and lead scalable cloud infrastructure in Bloomington, Indiana. You will mentor teams, drive AI-enabled automation, and ensure secure, compliant deployments across the organization.

Responsibilities include leading outages, improving deployment velocity, and shaping the platform roadmap with cross-functional partners. A strong background in AWS, Kubernetes and IaC is required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on design, build and operation of cloud infrastructure for large-scale prod systems on AWS.
• Deep Linux production environment knowledge.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking and async architectures.
• Expert in at least one automation language: Go, Python, or shell scripting.
• Extensive AWS service experience (ECS, EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, Kinesis, Secrets Manager, SSM, WAF).
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation.
• CI/CD tooling proficiency (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) and GitOps tooling.
• Observability stack expertise (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and tracing.
• Container expertise with Docker, runtimes and image security.
• Experience with Postgres, MongoDB and Redis at scale; low-latency service design behind LB/API gateways.
• Strong performance, scaling and reliability engineering mindset.
• Excellent communication and analytical thinking; capable of scalable platform design.
• Experience with microservice architectures and service-to-service patterns.
• Ability to plan, estimate and execute platform releases with predictability.
• Ability to refine user stories to reduce dependencies; motivated to learn and solve hard problems.

Responsibilities

• Make architectural tradeoffs and design scalable, reliable, secure cloud infra.
• Mentor DevOps and platform engineers; role modeling technical leadership.
• Lead AI strategy for productivity, automation and efficiency.
• Ensure secure, compliant deployment practices (PCI-DSS, SOC2 and more).
• Participate in design reviews to uphold high engineering standards.
• Collaborate with engineering and product to define platform roadmap.
• Translate requirements into scalable infrastructure designs.
• Manage stakeholder communication on deliverables, risks and changes.
• Coordinate with backend, frontend, data, security and QA teams on planning.
• Improve platform reliability, developer experience and deployment velocity.
• Lead outages, incidents, post-mortems and drive SRE practices.

Skills

AWS

Linux

Distributed systems

Asynchronous architectures

Go

Python

Shell scripting

Terraform

CDK

CloudFormation

CI/CD tooling

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

GitOps

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Docker

Kubernetes

Postgres

MongoDB

Redis

Load balancers

API gateways

Microservices

Security & compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS ECS

EC2

VPC

IAM

RDS

Kinesis

Secrets Manager

SSM

WAF

S3

Terraform

CDK

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

GitOps tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Docker

Kubernetes

Postgres

MongoDB

Redis

Job description

Tazapay is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps/SRE to architect and lead scalable cloud infrastructure in Bloomington, Indiana. You will mentor teams, drive AI-enabled automation, and ensure secure, compliant deployments across the organization.

Responsibilities include leading outages, improving deployment velocity, and shaping the platform roadmap with cross-functional partners. A strong background in AWS, Kubernetes and IaC is required.