Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Two Six Technologies as a Senior DevOps Engineer and take ownership of architecting, deploying, and managing our AWS-based infrastructure. You will drive our infrastructure as code strategy using Terraform and Terragrunt, proactively identify and resolve system vulnerabilities, and develop Ansible playbooks for automation. This role requires expertise in AWS services, Kubernetes, and the ELK stack. You will serve as a key escalation point for on-call rotations and manage deadlines based on business needs. The ideal candidate is a self-starter with a production-obsessed mindset and a proven track record of independent work.

Requirements

• Extreme Ownership & Self-Management: You must be a true self-starter, capable of defining your own tasks, managing your time, and delivering results without direct supervision. The ability to take complete ownership of a problem from start to finish is non-negotiable
• Proactive & Independent Problem-Solver: A powerful personal drive to hunt for potential problems and inefficiencies. You don't just fix what's broken; you work independently to seek out opportunities to improve system resilience, performance, and security on your own initiative
• Production-Obsessed Mindset: A deep and personal commitment to production environment reliability, uptime, and performance
• Infrastructure as Code: Deep, hands-on proficiency with Terraform and Terragrunt
• Configuration Management: Extensive experience authoring and maintaining complex Ansible playbooks
• Cloud Platform (AWS): Expert-level knowledge of AWS services for designing highly available and secure infrastructure (EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, Fargate, etc.)
• Kubernetes: Strong production experience running HA EKS environments
• Monitoring & Logging: Experience with an observability stack using ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

Responsibilities

• Take complete ownership of architecting, deploying, and managing our sophisticated AWS -based infrastructure, including services like EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, and SQS
• Independently drive and own our entire infrastructure as code strategy, expertly using Terraform and Terragrunt to build and maintain a fully automated environment
• Proactively identify and resolve system vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks, and reliability risks before they impact production, demonstrating a powerful personal drive to improve the platform
• Develop and maintain robust Ansible playbooks for advanced configuration management and automation, working independently to standardize and secure our systems
• Serve as a key escalation point in an on-call rotation, demonstrating strong ownership during incident response and in conducting post-incident reviews to drive preventative measures
• Manage and maintain the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) to maintain deep visibility into system health, performance, and security
• Define your own project priorities and manage deadlines based on business needs, demonstrating an exceptional level of self-management and initiative
• Deploy and manage containerized applications using Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes (EKS)

Preferred Qualifications

• Containerization and Orchestration: Deep expertise in Docker and hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and Helm
• CI/CD and Automation: Extensive experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools like Jenkins or GitHub Actions
• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps role, with a proven track record of working independently and taking ownership of production environments built with AWS , Terraform , and Ansible
• Security Clearance: Eligibility to obtain a government clearance if required/needed

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement benefits
• Paid leave
• Tuition assistance and professional development