A Place for Mom is hiring a
DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join our team as a Staff DevOps Engineer and contribute to Site Reliability Engineering, developer platform enhancement, and robust security practices. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in SRE principles, platform engineering, and security, with a proven ability to drive improvements in system reliability, performance, and security.

Requirements

• Proven experience with SRE principles and practices
• Strong proficiency in DevOps tools and technologies, including CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools across application (DataDog, New Relic), infrastructure (Grafana, Prometheus), management (Splunk, ELK), and cloud (AWS CloudWatch)
• Strong understanding of security practices and tools, including vulnerability scanning and threat detection
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or a related field
• Demonstrated experience in managing and optimizing large-scale systems and platforms
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and their security features
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage SRE practices to ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of our systems and services
• Develop and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Monitor and analyze system performance, identifying and addressing reliability issues proactively
• Automate operational tasks to reduce manual intervention and improve system efficiency
• Enhance and maintain the developer platform to support efficient and scalable software development
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve CI/CD pipelines, streamline development workflows, and optimize deployment processes
• Ensure that development tools and environments are up-to-date, reliable, and scalable
• Implement and manage security practices to protect our systems and data from threats
• Conduct regular security assessments and vulnerability scans to identify and mitigate risks
• Collaborate with security teams to enforce security policies and ensure compliance by default
• Lead with a product mindset, building tools that developers find intuitive and easy to use
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to support and improve system reliability, performance, and security
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members

Benefits

• 401(k) plus match
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off