Remote Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Roofr's team as a Senior DevOps Engineer to continuously improve development operations and support the reliability and availability of all applications and services deployed to the cloud.

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

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

Benefits

• 1st week of employment is mandatory PTO!
• 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