Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join A Place for Mom as a Staff DevOps Engineer and enhance our developer platform, build a robust delivery process, and ensure system security. This role requires strong platform engineering expertise, including security, and the ability to improve delivery and performance. You will collaborate with engineering and security teams, mentor junior members, and stay updated on industry best practices. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in DevOps, CI/CD, containerization, infrastructure as code, and cloud platforms. A bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience is required.

Requirements

• 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 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

• 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
• Stay updated with industry trends and best practices, applying them to improve our systems and processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to investigate complex issues to identify the root causes and impacts
• Able to communicate clearly with impact, articulating complex information and ideas to broad audiences

Benefits

• Base Salary: $125,000 to $135,000
• Bonus - 10% of annual earnings
• 401(k) plus match
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off