Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Wild Alaskan Company as a DevOps Engineer and contribute to building and maintaining our custom e-commerce platform. Reporting to the Director of Software Architecture, you will play a crucial role in optimizing infrastructure, improving developer workflows, and ensuring system security and reliability. This fully remote position offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Your responsibilities include managing hosting, developing CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with developers, implementing redundancy, and establishing continuity plans. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience with AWS services, container orchestration, Docker, Terraform, and various testing and automation frameworks. We offer a fast-paced, challenging, and fun work environment.

Requirements

• Expertise in AWS services (ELB, VPC, RDS, EC2, Elasticache)
• Experience with AWS ECS or similar container orchestration services
• Strong knowledge of Docker (building and maintaining images from scratch)
• Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure as code
• Experience supporting testing automation frameworks like Playwright
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions for CI/CD
• Coding experience in Go, and Bash
• In-depth understanding of Linux operating systems
• Strong process management and documentation skills
• Experience with database replication and business continuity best practices

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize hosting for our web properties
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborate with developers to enhance workflow efficiency and system reliability
• Implement redundancy processes for business-critical systems
• Establish continuity plans to mitigate outages and ensure smooth operations
• Monitor critical systems, proactively addressing potential issues
• Maintain and apply security updates to core systems
• Regularly audit hosting environments for cloud cost optimizations
• Support the data team and developers in maintaining customer privacy and compliance

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with the PHP ecosystem

Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental insurance
• 401k
• PTO
• Safe/sick time
• Vacation
• Parental leave
• A delicious box of free fish every month
• 100% remote with occasional travel for in-person team and companywide retreats