Sr. DevOps Engineer

buspatrol.com; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Unlimited PTO

Purpose-driven career focused on child

Culture of safety, learning, and team

AI and smart technology for socialgood

Job summary

BusPatrol is seeking a hands-on Sr DevOps Engineer in Austin to modernize our platform across infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and security. You will transform manual processes into reliable systems that accelerate engineering teams while maintaining production readiness.

The role focuses on secure, spec-driven workflows, robust release gates, and scalable internal platforms, enabling AI-enabled delivery with governance and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/engineering.
• 5+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, or related roles.
• Hands-on AWS and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with Terraform, AWS CDK, and CI/CD with GitHub Actions.
• Strong documentation habits and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and maintain cloud infrastructure using IaC patterns.
• Define and improve the engineering paved road for service delivery and guardrails.
• Build, maintain, and harden CI/CD pipelines with secure release workflows.
• Improve security gates, dependencies checks, and policy enforcement.
• Strengthen observability with logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and runbooks.
• Collaborate with teams to improve reliability, performance, and production readiness.
• Support AI-enabled software delivery with spec-driven workflows and governance.
• Contribute to AI delivery systems aligned with guardrails for data and changes.
• Enhance developer experience with self-service tooling and templates.
• Participate in incident response and continuous improvement efforts.

Skills

DevOps

Platform Engineering

SRE

Cloud infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

GitHub Actions

Observability tooling

Containerization tooling

Job description

Sr DevOps Engineer

• - Location: Austin, Texas
• - Schedule: Full-time
• - Travel: Less than 5%
• - Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience
• - Experience: 5+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or closely related infrastructure roles

Please Note: This position is not eligible for employment sponsorship. BusPatrol is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at this time.

Job Overview

At BusPatrol, we are transforming student transportation safety through modern cloud platforms, secure automation, and real-time operational excellence. We are seeking a hands-on Sr DevOps Engineer to help build and evolve the engineering paved road across infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, cloud security, and developer workflows. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys turning manual, inconsistent processes into reliable systems that make engineering teams faster, safer, and more effective.

You will play a key role in BusPatrol’s platform modernization and AI-native SDLC journey. That includes supporting secure, spec-driven engineering workflows, strengthening CI/CD and policy gates, improving delivery reliability, and helping teams adopt repeatable AI-enabled development practices without compromising security, compliance, or production readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and maintain cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code patterns, reusable modules, and secure platform standards.
• Help define and improve the engineering paved road for service delivery, release patterns, environment consistency, and platform guardrails.
• Build, maintain, and harden CI/CD pipelines that support safe build, test, release, promotion, rollback, and change visibility across services and environments.
• Improve pipeline quality gates with automated security scanning, dependency checks, and policy enforcement where appropriate.
• Strengthen observability across applications and infrastructure by standardizing logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, and operational runbooks.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve reliability, performance, recovery time, and production readiness.
• Support secure AI-enabled software delivery by helping teams operationalize spec-driven workflows, AI-assisted PR practices, automated test generation, and controlled release readiness checks.
• Contribute to AI delivery systems that are secure, repeatable, observable, and aligned with BusPatrol guardrails for sensitive data, secrets, and production change control.
• Improve developer experience through self-service tooling, templates, documentation, and workflow automation that reduce toil and help teams ship with confidence.
• Help make the easiest path the safest and most repeatable one for engineers across product and platform teams.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Use operational data and engineering feedback to reduce recurring issues, strengthen controls, and improve the overall delivery system.
• Collaborate closely with software engineering, security, architecture, MLOps, and IT teams to deliver scalable internal platforms and high-trust operational practices.
• Help connect day-to-day DevOps execution with BusPatrol’s broader modernization, reliability, and AI adoption goals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, or cloud infrastructure roles
• Hands-on experience with AWS and modern infrastructure automation practices
• Experience with Terraform, AWS CDK, or comparable IaC tooling
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or similar systems
• Working knowledge of observability tooling, monitoring, and production operations
• Experience with containerized or distributed application environments
• Familiarity with cloud security controls, secrets handling, branch protections, and secure release workflows
• Ability to work effectively with engineers, security partners, and technical stakeholders across teams and time zones
• Strong written documentation habits and an automation-first mindset

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience supporting platform modernization from legacy systems toward service-oriented or microservices-based architectures
• Experience with policy-as-code, automated security gates, or compliance-oriented controls in engineering workflows
• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering workflows, spec-driven development, or AI-enabled SDLC tooling
• Experience improving developer self-service through templates, paved roads, internal platforms, or golden-path patterns

Core Skills

• Infrastructure as Code
• GitOps and release automation
• CI/CD pipeline engineering
• AWS platform operations
• Observability and incident response
• Cloud security and policy enforcement
• Developer experience and platform enablement
• Documentation and runbook creation
• AI workflow enablement with governance
• Cross-functional technical collaboration

Why BusPatrol?

Who We Are

At BusPatrol, safety is not just a priority — it is our mission. As the nation’s most trusted school bus stop-arm technology solution, we serve over 350 school districts, protecting nearly 2 million students across 30,000 buses. We use cutting-edge AI, machine learning, telematics, and cloud-based platforms to improve school bus safety and help communities reduce dangerous driving behavior around children.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Unlimited PTO
• A purpose-driven career focused on protecting children and improving public safety
• The chance to participate in BusPatrol’s culture of safety, learning, and teamwork
• A team of innovators committed to leveraging AI and smart technology for social good

Be Part of Something Bigger

This is a meaningful opportunity to help shape the systems that enable BusPatrol engineering to move faster, operate more securely, and scale responsibly. You will help build the platforms, workflows, and guardrails that support both today’s products and BusPatrol’s next generation of AI-enabled delivery capabilities.

Compensation Note

The US salary range for this position is provided in the posting. Salary ranges are determined by role, level, location, and additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Compensation details in US postings reflect base salary only and do not include bonus, commission, or benefits where applicable.