Senior DevOps Automation Engineer
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Job Description
- Creation and management of AWS cloud infrastructure and configuration as well as ensuring systems and services are leveraging best practices, security, and standards.
- Provide strong partnership with development teams to develop internal platforms and services to enable expediency and self-service for development teams.
- Build, deploy, and operate infrastructure and services across our multi-platform environment: AWS, Netlify, and Supabase.
- Use AI-powered tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent) to accelerate infrastructure work, generate and review automation, and build self-service workflows.
- Automate repetitive operational work end to end, including provisioning, environment setup, deployments, rollbacks, scaling, patching, and routine maintenance.
- Provide partnership with other teams such as financial, legal, and operations.
- Provide, maintain, and optimize the build process to support continuous integration.
- Investigates, debugs and drives improvements to the engineering and build automation process.
- Support and improve efficiency and effectiveness of tools (CI/CD, automated testing, automation and release).
- Work cross-functionally to assess risk and help deliver countermeasures that protect customers and company data.
- Ensure that the SaaS services and associated infrastructure maintain required levels of security, availability, reliability, scalability, and performance to meet SLAs.
- Build incident management, operational monitoring, and alerting capabilities to proactively report, troubleshoot, and fix problems.
- With the team, own vendor management for existing and new vendors the team leverages.
- Regular on-call rotations for team owned services and infrastructure.