Staff DevOps Engineer

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 206,000 - 343,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k with matching contributions

Disability insurance

Paid time off

Employee ownership

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to strengthen cloud infrastructure, delivery automation, and operational reliability in a modern enterprise environment. You will partner with engineering teams to improve deployment practices, observability, resilience, and incident readiness, while offering technical leadership.

The role is remote with collaboration across teams on Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD tools.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python or other scripting languages.
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Helm.
• Strong knowledge of Azure or other public cloud platforms.
• Experience with Terraform and observability stacks, including ELK, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Understanding of SRE principles and incident response practices.
• Security-first mindset with experience in infrastructure security and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to DevOps and SRE initiatives for cloud infrastructure.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement observability and logging solutions.
• Manage infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
• Troubleshoot and operate Kubernetes clusters.
• Collaborate with developers to enhance system resilience.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to team members.

Skills

Python

SRE principles

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

ELK Stack

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

For our client, we are seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to join the team of a leader in the Enterprise Technology space.

This role will play a key part in strengthening cloud infrastructure, delivery automation, and operational reliability across a modern enterprise environment. You will partner closely with engineering teams to improve deployment practices, observability, resilience, and incident readiness. The position also offers the opportunity to provide technical leadership while helping shape secure, scalable infrastructure operations.

Location: Remote

Compensation: $205,650 – $342,750 annually

Responsibilities

• Contribute to DevOps and SRE initiatives for cloud infrastructure
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Implement observability and logging solutions
• Manage infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code tools
• Troubleshoot and operate Kubernetes clusters
• Collaborate with developers to enhance system resilience
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to team members

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python or other scripting languages
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Helm
• Strong knowledge of Azure or other public cloud platforms
• Experience with Terraform and observability stacks, including ELK, Prometheus, and Grafana
• Understanding of SRE principles and incident response practices
• Security-first mindset with experience in infrastructure security and compliance

Benefits

• Employee ownership
• Health insurance
• 401k with matching contributions
• Disability insurance
• Paid time off
• Growth opportunities

Our client is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification—your background could be exactly what this team needs.