Senior DevOps Engineer

2 weeks ago


San Diego, United States Art of Problem Solving Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in enhancing and maintaining the resilience of our cloud-based infrastructure and services. You will leverage your deep technical expertise to ensure our systems are scalable, reliable, efficient, and secure, supporting our mission to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. This role is perfect for a proactive and analytical engineer passionate about solving complex problems and driving improvements in system reliability and performance.

The Senior DevOps Engineer will:

  • Design, implement, test, monitor, maintain, and document cloud infrastructure for all of our products.
  • Develop and manage Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) configurations using Terraform.
  • Lead the strategic development and enhancement of automation and self-service tooling to empower engineering teams, driving efficiency improvements and fostering a culture of innovation and self-reliance among engineers.
  • Collaborate with Engineering Leadership, Software Engineers, and Software Architects to drive best practices in release management and deployment processes.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives in system reliability, performance, and efficiency.
  • Analyze and optimize system performance based on reliability metrics and logs.
  • Lead or assist with incident response, troubleshoot and resolve production issues, and lead incident post-mortems and analysis to prevent future incidents.
  • Test, evaluate, and code review others' programs and infrastructure.
  • Proactively identify and communicate reliability issues or risks to stakeholders, including engineers and product teams, while contributing to the development and implementation of risk management and reduction best practices.
  • Lead the implementation of security best practices and the execution of comprehensive security audits to ensure system integrity and protection against vulnerabilities.
  • Focus on cost management strategies and identify opportunities for significant cost reductions without compromising system reliability or performance.
  • Proactively estimate and clearly communicate development timelines, roadblocks, and development status.
  • Maintain an understanding of current web technologies and infrastructure best practices and proactively work to expand knowledge and skill-set.
  • Complete other tasks and responsibilities, as assigned.

The ideal candidate has:

  • 3-5 years of experience in Software Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering, with at least 2-3 years specifically in Site Reliability Engineering.
  • Demonstrated expertise in designing, securing, and managing scalable infrastructure in the AWS ecosystem.
  • Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools, preferably Terraform.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • Familiarity with Node.js (preferred) and/or PHP in a professional environment
  • Familiarity with MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache, and nginx or similar technologies
  • Prior full-stack or backend software engineering experience is strongly preferred

Why Join AoPS:

This is a hybrid full-time position based at our headquarters in San Diego, CA. The full salary range for this position is 132k-165k with a 6% year-end bonus. Here are some things you can look forward to:

  • Impact: As an early member of our SRE team, you'll have the chance to establish best practices from the ground up and help to shape the culture, strategy, and technical approaches from the beginning.
  • Culture: Work and collaborate with an organization filled with builders and life-long learners who strive to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation
  • Flexibility: Casual work environment with a hybrid work week and flexible scheduling
  • Benefits: Multiple options for Medical, Dental and Vision plans
  • Future Planning: 401K with company match
  • Quality of Life: PTO Plan and supportive leadership that gives you the work-life balance you deserve
  • Ease of Transition: Relocation bonus (if currently located outside of San Diego)

Background Check:

Please note that employment is contingent on the successful completion of a background check.

About AoPS:

Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is on a mission to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. Since 2003, we have trained hundreds of thousands of the country's top students, including nearly all the members of the US International Math Olympiad team, through our online school, in-person academies, textbooks, and online learning systems. While our primary focus has been math for most of our history, through the years we have expanded our unique problem solving curriculum into more subjects, such as language arts, science, and computer science.

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