Senior Software Engineer - DevOps

The skills and qualities you'll bring include

• Proven track record with 6+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering, including hands-on experience operating cloud production infrastructure at scale across AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong proficiency in Linux system administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting alongside advanced container orchestration using Kubernetes and Docker.
• Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, including module design and state management at scale.
• Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tooling such as Grafana or Prometheus, including defining SLOs and alerting strategies.
• Familiarity with agentic development practices using modern tools, GitOps practices, Ansible, and automated CI/CD pipeline management.
• Direct experience working within or alongside FedRAMP authorized cloud environments and familiarity with continuous monitoring compliance obligations.
• Capability for Strategic Doing by taking complex, ambiguous platform challenges and returning a clear execution plan, sequencing, and evaluated trade-offs with minimal direction.
• Personal Accountability for establishing clear operational ownership, driving system reliability, and taking responsibility for platform availability outcomes.
• Ability for Navigating Change & Ambiguity while leading infrastructure migrations, platform transitions, or vendor-to-in-house system handovers.
• Commitment to Cross-Functional Collaboration by building global networks across engineering, security, and product teams to deliver sustainable platform improvements.
• Strong communication skills to convey technical objectives and rationale clearly across teams while placing customer needs at the forefront of decision-making.
• Embody our core values to foster a culture of excellence that drives meaningful impact and collective success.
• We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That's because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don't be shy - apply today.

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