Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Sonatype, the leading software supply chain security company, and become a key member of the Developer Experience team. You will leverage your 4+ years of experience in high-availability systems and production environments to define repeatable service delivery practices. Your expertise in automation, developer platforms, and governance controls will be crucial in reducing risk and promoting standardization. Collaborate with delivery teams to define product metrics and implement remediations through system analysis and troubleshooting. Refine enablement practices, including design review, service launch coordination, and incident management, to support teams throughout their service lifecycle. This role requires proficiency in programming languages, modern operating practices, system architecture, and cloud services (AWS and Kubernetes).

Requirements

• Proficiency with a high-level programming language (eg: Python, Go), bash scripting and linux
• Proficiency in modern technical operating practices
• System architecture & design experience
• Continuous integration / continuous delivery (Jenkins, FluxCD and GitHub Actions)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Cloud services (AWS) and Kubernetes
• SRE principles & practices
• Experience with specific AWS offerings, including many of: ECS/EKS/ECR
• EC2, S3, RDS, VPCs
• IAM Policy Docs, Policies, Roles, and Instance Profiles
• Cloudwatch Logs
• Docker Containers and orchestration (ECS, EKS)
• Terraform and the use of Terraform modules
• Kubernetes cluster concepts and design
• Experience improving service observability: monitoring agents, metrics, logging and dashboards. Knowledge of OpenTelemetry and Prometheus and observability platforms similar to DataDog, Splunk, Dynatrace or Observe
• Comfortable participating in an on-call rotation with teammates to respond and triage production issue escalations during off-hours
• 4+ years of experience running high availability systems and supporting infrastructure in customer-facing production environments

Responsibilities

• Define repeatable practices for service delivery via modular, reusable automation and a developer platform that enables self-service delivery of services
• Participate in the governance controls that reduce risk and promote standardization across the organization
• Refine a set of high level enablement practices - for instance, design review, service launch coordination, production readiness assessment, service level objective definition / review, incident management, and cost awareness- to support delivery teams at various phases of their service lifecycle and maturity
• Collaborate closely with Sonatype delivery teams to define product specific metrics and remediations through system analysis, testing, and fault troubleshooting

Benefits

• Parental leave
• Flexible working practices
• Company Wellness Week - We shut down company operations for a week to enable all employees to pursue personal growth and enjoy a much-needed and deserved rest
• Paid Volunteer Time Off (VTO)