Senior DevOps Engineer

AHEAD

. Own and evolve AWS environments managed as infrastructure as code with CloudFormation .

Posted 10/27/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $140,000 - $160,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in AWS environments, infrastructure as code with CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipeline management. Proficient in observability practices using Datadog and committed to enhancing security and operational excellence in cloud infrastructure.

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AWS ExperienceInfrastructure As CodeCI/CD Pipeline ManagementDatadog ObservabilityRelational Database Management

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Hard Skills

CloudFormationTerraformGitLab CI/CDDockerAmazon ECSSQL ServerPostgreSQLScripting LanguageIAMSOC2 Compliance

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationMentoring

Tools & Technologies

DatadogAWSGitLabDockerAmazon ECSKubernetes

Industry Keywords

Infrastructure EngineeringDevOpsPlatform EngineeringObservabilitySecurity Posture

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDockerElixirKubernetesPostgresSQLTerraformUnity

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and evolve AWS environments managed as infrastructure as code with CloudFormation
Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines from commit to production
Build observability in Datadog, including monitoring, alerting, dashboards, metrics, logging, and tracing
Strengthen security posture through IAM, least privilege, encryption, network boundaries, and SOC2 controls
Automate environment provisioning, deployments, and operational tasks
Participate in on-call rotation, lead incident response and postmortems, and drive corrective fixes
Troubleshoot live production issues across containers, runtimes, databases, and networks
Support Amazon RDS SQL Server and Aurora PostgreSQL databases, including performance, capacity, backups, and upgrades
Monitor and optimize platform cost and performance
Collaborate with software engineers to improve the developer platform
Mentor the team on operational excellence
Help build and run the AWS cloud foundation behind Hatch, Unity, and related services

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years in DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering
Deep hands-on AWS experience
Strong infrastructure-as-code skills; CloudFormation experience required, with Terraform or similar acceptable
Experience building and running CI/CD pipelines for production systems
Experience with observability tooling; Datadog preferred
Knowledge of IAM, encryption, network design, and least privilege
Experience supporting SOC2 or similar compliance programs is a plus
Experience running containerized workloads with Docker and Amazon ECS on Fargate
Kubernetes experience is a plus
Hands-on experience operating relational databases in production, ideally SQL Server and PostgreSQL on AWS
Experience debugging Elixir/BEAM or JVM services is a plus
Proficiency in at least one scripting language
Fluency with modern AI development tools and discipline to verify shipped work
Clear communication with engineers and non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
401(k)
Paid company holidays
Paid time off
Paid parental and caregiver leave
Cross-department training and development
Sponsored certifications and credentials for continued learning
Competitive salary
Work-life balance
Modern technology and AI tools
Autonomy to make a visible impact