Remote Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Roofr, a successful yet early-stage startup with a strong culture and financials, as a Senior DevOps Engineer. You will play a crucial role in continuously improving development operations and ensuring the reliability and availability of our cloud-deployed applications. This leadership position requires managing a team, defining processes, and driving cost optimization. You will collaborate with various engineering teams and champion SRE best practices. Roofr offers a compelling compensation package, including generous benefits and a remote-first culture.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 5+ years of building and managing technical processes in SRE, DevOps or other related domains
• Experience supporting infrastructure and services in public cloud environments; AWS required
• Experience leading SRE team with strong emphasis on automation and continuous improvement
• Hands-on experience in developing applications in one or more language stacks: Java, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Go, etc
• Strong hands-on knowledge of one or more of Infrastructure-as-Code tools and technologies: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, etc
• Strong knowledge of network engineering and foundational network protocols and services such as TCP/IP, HTTP, DHCP, DNS, VPN, etc
• Experience with Agile software development and Scrum methodology
• Great communication, collaboration and presentation skills
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills

Responsibilities

• Partner with various engineering teams to own and manage availability, latency, performance, reliability and scalability of all services to maintain SLAs that our customers expect from us
• Provide strong technical leadership and people management to the team
• Act as a SME and demonstrate end-to-end ownership of SRE function with automation-first mindset
• Collaborate with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Software Engineers across the organization to deliver a comprehensive solution for SRE discipline and set effective SLOs/SLIs and error budgets for all services
• Define well-defined processes, methodologies, metrics and KPIs to drive accountability
• Own and drive cloud cost management, capacity planning and performance management and partner with engineering leaders to optimize for performance and cost
• Drive instrumentation of services for end-to-end Observability - Monitoring, Alerting, Metrics, Logging and Dashboard
• Own and drive incident management process, conduct blameless post mortems and publish incident reports, maintain runbooks and on-call schedules
• Coordinate with product development engineering teams on change management and release management processes
• Be an evangelist for SRE best practices
• Champion and implement strong DevSecOps principles and SDLC best practices
• Coach, mentor and cross-train team members
• Servant leadership and Agile DNA

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS certification
• Expertise in Linux systems
• Experience building and managing fault tolerant large scale distributed systems
• Strong hands-on experience in one or more of Containers and Container Orchestration frameworks: Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Amazon Fargate, etc
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps and Pipeline-As-Code: ArgoCD, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Gitlab CI/CD, etc
• Experience with Microservices architecture and CNCF ecosystem
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline

Benefits

• 1st week of employment is mandatory PTO! Start your journey with Roofr by decompressing and recharging - we will see you in week 2!
• 1 Friday off per month (we call those our laundry days!)
• Company wide paid shutdown for the week between Christmas and New Years
• Flexible time off
• Medical, dental and vision insurance premiums for employees and their dependents
• Generous Parental Leave policy
• We host 2 retreats per year and great team building activities
• Ample learning and development opportunities to continue growing your career
• Home office setup stipend
• Remote first culture
• Weekly Friday paydays!