Staff DevOps Engineer: Cloud Platform & CI/CD Lead

Cast & Crew; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) match

Generous PTO

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Employee discounts

Job summary

Cast & Crew in the United States is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to anchor our platform engineering practice. You will own the design and evolution of CI/CD pipelines, AWS EKS clusters, and developer tooling used by hundreds of engineers daily.

In this senior role, you’ll operate with autonomy, drive reliability improvements, mentor engineers, and shape DevOps standards across multiple teams, while ensuring platform quality and scalability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of DevOps or platform engineering experience, with at least 2 years operating at a Staff or Principal level in an organization of 100+ engineers.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with Kubernetes — EKS specifically preferred.
• Strong command of Azure DevOps Pipelines, including YAML pipeline authoring, library management, service connections, and environment promotion gates.
• Proven track record designing and maintaining CI/CD systems for microservice architectures with multiple independent teams as consumers.
• Experience operating observability platforms (New Relic, Datadog, or similar) to drive proactive reliability improvements.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, or Go) and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK).
• Familiarity with feature flag patterns and progressive delivery considerations.
• Excellent written communication skills — documentation-focused and able to translate complex infrastructure decisions.

Responsibilities

• Architect and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines and artifact promotion workflows across environments.
• Own the health and evolution of AWS EKS clusters (node lifecycle, autoscaling, networking, RBAC, upgrades).
• Design and enforce Infrastructure-as-Code practices using Terraform; champion GitOps patterns across teams.
• Drive platform reliability improvements informed by observability data; translate dashboards/alerts into actions.
• Define and socialize DevOps standards across a multi-team engineering organization.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers; grow internal platform capability through pairing and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Kubernetes (EKS)

Azure DevOps Pipelines

CI/CD for microservices

Observability tooling

Scripting (Python/Bash/Go)

Terraform / IaC

GitOps

Platform leadership

Incident response

Containerization

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Helm

Azure DevOps

New Relic

Datadog

Job description

Cast & Crew in the United States is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to anchor our platform engineering practice. You will own the design and evolution of CI/CD pipelines, AWS EKS clusters, and developer tooling used by hundreds of engineers daily.

In this senior role, you’ll operate with autonomy, drive reliability improvements, mentor engineers, and shape DevOps standards across multiple teams, while ensuring platform quality and scalability.