Sr. DevOps Engineer

First Street

$100K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of hands-on DevOps/platform ownership experience
  • Proficient in operating production systems, particularly public cloud environments
  • Experience enhancing CI/CD processes for reliable deployments
  • Strong knowledge of AWS and Kubernetes for container orchestration
  • Focus on security best practices, especially in identity/access management
  • Ability to work independently while fostering teamwork across engineering

Responsibilities

  • Lead efforts to simplify and accelerate deployment processes through automation
  • Enhance monitoring and incident response for improved on-call experiences
  • Formalize Infrastructure as Code practices to support scaling infrastructure
  • Implement cost control measures for improved financial operations
  • Manage and upgrade compute environments including AWS and on-premises infrastructures
  • Define service level objectives/indicators and refine incident management workflows
  • Standardize operational procedures to minimize reliance on institutional knowledge

Benefits

  • Hybrid work schedule with set in-office days
  • 15 vacation days plus statutory holidays and winter break closure
  • 100% coverage for employee healthcare premiums
  • Comprehensive benefits including vision, dental, and mental health resources
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Company-sponsored 401k program
  • Weekly team meals and office stocked with refreshments
  • Opportunity to work on impactful climate change-related projects alongside passionate colleagues
Full Job Description
Team Role & Overview

We're hiring a Sr. DevOps Engineer to take ownership of responsibilities that have historically been shared across engineering. You won't be "building from zero" - we already have systems in place - but you will bring a high level of ownership over all aspects of your technical practice: smoother deployments, stronger reliability, clearer observability, tighter identity/access controls, and a more repeatable infrastructure foundation.

What you'll do:

Over your first year, success looks like measurable improvements across:
  • Reducing deployment pain: make releases simpler, safer, and faster through better automation, consistent environments, and strong CI/CD practices.
  • Improving observability and on-call: strengthen monitoring, alert quality, and incident response so on-call is humane and effective
  • Formalizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC): drive repeatability and change control for infrastructure and platform configuration. Why? We are quickly scaling to global, multi-region infrastructure.
  • Cost controls: introduce practical FinOps hygiene (visibility, ownership, guardrails, right-sizing).
  • Compute environments: own and evolve our platform across AWS and on-prem compute environments (you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with our High Performance Compute team).
  • On-call quality: reduce noisy alerts, define SLOs/SLIs where useful, and strengthen incident response practices (runbooks, postmortems, follow-ups).
  • Operational workflows: Lead efforts to standardize operational workflows and reduce "institutional knowledge" dependencies across the team.
What you'll need:
  • Strong hands-on DevOps/platform ownership experience, ideally having been the primary owner) in a prior role.
  • Deep comfort operating production public cloud systems: debugging, incident response, performance triage, and operational discipline.
  • Practical experience improving CI/CD and deployment reliability.
  • Fluency with cloud infrastructure (AWS strongly preferred) and containerized workloads (Kubernetes experience strongly preferred).
  • Security-minded approach, especially around identity and access management and SSO/SAML concepts.
  • Ability to work independently with minimal hand-holding, while collaborating effectively across engineering.
Nice-to-have:
  • Designing/implementing IaC at scale (Terraform/Pulumi/CloudFormation-whatever you've used, we care about principles and outcomes).
  • Compliance experience: SOC 2 evidence/control implementation and/or ISO 27001 familiarity.
  • Cost optimization and operational metrics (FinOps, capacity planning).
  • Experience in finance-related environments or other regulated B2B contexts.


Our anticipated US base salary compensation range for this role is $100,000-180,000 plus stock options and a competitive benefits package, which includes equity, 401(k), paid time off, paid parental leave, and comprehensive health benefits. Actual compensation will vary depending on factors such as work location as well as additional factors such as a candidate's qualifications, skills, experience, competencies, and relevant education. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

How we work:
  • Impact: We only focus on things that move the needle
  • Drive: We are driven by the role we play in connecting climate change to financial risk
  • Ownership: This is our company and we act accordingly
  • Urgency: We move quickly because the world depends on it
  • Resilience: We have a growth mindset in all that we do


What we offer:
  • Competitive salary commensurate with experience
  • Ownership interest in the company via Employee Stock Option Plan
  • Hybrid Schedule with in-office work days on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday
  • 15 vacation days along with 8 statutory company holidays, 5 days for winter break office closure, and 10 sick days
  • Healthcare monthly premium covered at 100% for employee or a significant contribution for family plans
  • Vision and dental benefits with partial employee contribution
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Access to One Medical, Teledoc, HealthAdvocate, Kindbody, and Talkspace
  • Company 401k program
  • Commuter benefits
  • Life Insurance
  • Tech startup environment
  • Weekly team meals and an office stocked with coffee and snacks
  • Working on the world's biggest issue with other passionate professionals


Once you've applied, please be sure to check your spam folder, as emails from our recruiting team are sometimes rerouted.

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