Senior DevOps Engineer

Media.Monks$110K — $160K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in operational roles including Cloud Operations, Site Reliability, or DevOps.
  • Experience with GitOps-based deployments and CI/CD tools like Jenkins or ArgoCD.
  • Proficiency in observability tools such as Prometheus or Grafana.
  • Experience designing and operating applications in public cloud environments, especially AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Expertise in AWS services (e.g. RDS, EKS, CloudWatch) and container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly.

Responsibilities

  • Design engineering platforms to streamline application development and deployment.
  • Develop automation for operational and development tasks.
  • Monitor system performance, ensuring high availability and reliability.
  • Collaborate with software and data engineering teams on operational solutions.
  • Continuously enhance system reliability through actionable monitoring frameworks.

Benefits

  • Full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays.
  • 401k plan with company contributions.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Strong focus on work-life balance and personal well-being.
  • Opportunities for career growth in a forward-thinking company.
  • Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion with internal resource groups.
Full Job Description
We are seeking a highly motivated and innovative DevOps engineer to join our team. In this position, you will join a team of DevOps engineers focused on automating solutions, securing data and infrastructures, and owning all aspects of our infrastructure to achieve high availability, scalability and reliability.

Location: You would be required to be on-site 3 times per week, between Tuesday to Thursday.

Description

We are looking for a world-class DevOps Engineer who is passionate about operational excellence through automation and engineering processes. As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the seamless integration of development and operations processes, to deliver best in class and highly available systems.

You will work with the application development teams to understand infrastructure requirements, while promoting efficiency, scalability, security, and reliability throughout the software lifecycle. Your expertise in cloud platforms, automation, and infrastructure management will be crucial to the success of our projects.

Your responsibilities will include:
  • Designing engineering platforms and tooling that simplify the process of building, deploying, and operating applications.
  • Developing automation for common development and operational tasks.
  • Monitoring system performance and availability, and remediating as necessary.
  • Collaborating with software and data engineering team on finding operationally sustainable solutions to engineering problems.
Minimum Qualifications
  • 5+ years in operational roles (Cloud Operations, Site Reliability, DevOps, etc...)
  • Experience with GitOps-based deployments, enabling CI/CD with Jenkins, ArgoCD or similar systems.
  • Proficiency with logging and observability technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk or similar.
  • Proficiency with designing and operating applications in a public cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc...)
  • Expertise in operating and integrating with AWS services such as RDS, EKS, CloudWatch, etc...
  • Expertise with containerization technologies such as Docker.
  • Expertise with container orchestration such Kubernetes and Helm.
  • Expertise in configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform).
  • Expertise in maintaining and troubleshooting Linux-based systems.
  • Continuously work with the engineering teams to improve reliability, implementing actionable monitoring framework.
  • Analytical & problem solving skills, ability to communicate ideas clearly.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, with a strong focus on teamwork.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent in Engineering.
  • 10+ years in operational roles (Cloud Operations, Site Reliability, DevOps, etc...)
  • 1+ years in Software Engineering roles or equivalent software architecture roles.
  • Experience with preparing and executing PCI, SOC2, SOX, or other compliance audits.
What We Offer
Benefits
  • Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
  • 401k with company contribution
  • Paid parental leave
  • Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
  • Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network
  • A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
  • Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here !)

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company's then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate's sex or any other protected status.

Salary Range: $110,000-$160,000 USD

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