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Salary: USD 150,000 - 180,000 / annual
A Place for Mom, the leading platform guiding families through senior care search and aging services, is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to scale and evolve cloud infrastructure, platform engineering capabilities, site reliability practices, and security posture.
You will serve as a technical leader driving cloud infrastructure, automation, platform engineering, and reliability initiatives while partnering across Engineering, Security, Architecture, and Product teams. Your focus will be improving developer experience, strengthening security, increasing platform reliability, and advancing operational excellence.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, build, and operate scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure across AWS
- Lead platform engineering initiatives that improve developer productivity, deployment velocity, and operational efficiency
- Drive Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform and establish reusable patterns and engineering standards
- Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and self-service platform capabilities
- Improve observability through monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response practices
- Partner with engineering teams to improve system reliability, performance, scalability, and resilience
- Collaborate with Security teams to strengthen cloud security, infrastructure hardening, access management, and compliance
- Evaluate and implement new technologies, automation opportunities, and AI-powered engineering tools
- Lead technical discussions, architectural reviews, and infrastructure design decisions across teams
- Mentor engineers and contribute to the growth of DevOps, Platform Engineering, and SRE practices
Success looks like driving platform architecture decisions that improve scalability, reliability, security, and developer experience; leading impactful infrastructure and platform initiatives from design through implementation; establishing engineering standards and operational best practices; mentoring engineers to elevate technical capabilities; and helping shape long-term cloud, platform, and reliability strategy.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related disciplines
- Deep hands-on experience designing, operating, and securing AWS environments
- Strong expertise with Terraform; experience with Terramate or similar infrastructure orchestration tools is a plus
- Experience managing containerized workloads using ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, or similar platforms
- Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI, or similar tools
- Experience with observability platforms such as New Relic, Datadog, CloudWatch, or OpenTelemetry
- Strong understanding of networking, cloud security, identity management, and distributed systems
- Experience with automation and scripting using Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages
- Excellent communication skills with ability to influence technical direction across teams
- Proven ability to lead infrastructure initiatives and mentor engineers
PREFERRED:
- Experience operating large-scale, multi-account AWS environments
- Experience building internal developer platforms and self-service infrastructure solutions
- Experience implementing SRE practices including SLOs, SLIs, and reliability metrics
- Experience supporting cloud security, compliance, and governance initiatives
- Familiarity with AI-powered developer tooling, automation platforms, or cloud-native AI services
- AWS Professional, Security Specialty, Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar cloud certifications
