Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Apply Digital as a Senior DevOps Engineer and become a key contributor to our globally distributed team. You will architect, build, and optimize cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for modern digital platforms. Leveraging your deep understanding of DevOps best practices and cloud-native systems (especially on Google Cloud), you will ensure scalability, reliability, and security. This senior-level individual contributor role requires mentoring junior engineers and collaborating across disciplines. Strong English proficiency and experience with remote teams across North America and Latin America are essential. The role offers the opportunity to work with the latest technologies on the Google Cloud Platform and implement various deployment strategies.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in English (written and verbal communication) is required
• 5+ years of cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or equivalent experience
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Expert proficiency with Terraform
• Very good understanding at least in one of the three main cloud platforms (GCP, AWS or Azure)
• Strong experience with CI/CD and tools like GitHub Actions and GitLab
• Solid understanding of networking, security best practices, and system administration
• Ability to analyze metrics from distributed applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Ability to consult on cost effective solutions for the present, and how they will evolve in the future as needs scale
• Strong experience with scripting - shell, Python, etc
• Excellent customer service attitude, communication skills (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders. You should feel comfortable explaining technical concepts in simple terms

Responsibilities

• Design cloud infrastructure components (network, compute, storage, orchestration, security etc) based on application architecture and requirements (typically containerized microservice applications)
• Build and deploy these components using an infrastructure as code platform such as Terraform
• Set up CI/CD pipelines
• Mentor other team members on good practices and problem resolution
• Stay current with and adapt to emerging technologies, infrastructure, and frameworks to maintain industry-standard systems and processes
• Be ready to work as the ultimate subject matter expert (SME) during incidents and support the team on resolution and root cause analysis
• Have the opportunity to design and implement processes and tools with our team
• Work with the latest technologies in the Google Cloud Platform and keep your skills current while you innovate
• Apply different deployment strategies and their implementations like blue/green deployments, canary deployments depending on the requirement to avoid any downtimes when working with applications while testing new code versions
• Manage and optimize cloud platforms such as Google Cloud, Azure, or AWS, ensuring scalability, security, and cost-efficiency
• Work in a small team environment within a large, stable, and successful company that is growing fast
• Lead the creation of automation and deployments pipelines for applications to all environments
• Enforce best security practices, ensuring infrastructure and applications are compliant with industry standards
• Deploy new and existing applications to production and lower environments as per the release schedule
• Implement and maintain monitoring solutions to ensure system health and performance
• Investigate and troubleshoot complex issues and help support applications in all environments
• Work closely with developers, QA engineers, and other IT teams to promote DevOps culture
• Mentor and guide junior DevOps engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with monitoring/logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Google Cloud Monitoring
• Experience with SRE
• AWS Professional Certification
• Kubernetes Certification
• Google Cloud Certification
• Azure Cloud Certification
• Terraform Certification
• Agile Certification

Benefits

• Great projects: Broaden your skills on a range of engaging projects with international brands that have a global impact
• An inclusive and safe environment: We’re truly committed to building a culture where you are celebrated and everyone feels welcome and safe
• Learning opportunities: We offer generous training budgets, including partner tech certifications, custom learning plans, workshops, mentorship, and peer support
• Generous vacation policy: Work-life balance is key to our team’s success, so we offer ample time away from work to promote overall well-being
• Customizable benefits: Tailor your extended health and dental plan to your needs, priorities, and preferences
• Flexible work arrangements: We work in a variety of ways, from remote, to in-office, to a blend of both