Senior DevOps Software Engineer

Summary

Join OpenSesame's fully remote team as an experienced DevOps Engineer and contribute to the growth of our eLearning platform. You will leverage your expertise in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and cloud platforms (primarily AWS) to design and manage scalable, secure systems. A key aspect of this role is enabling developers to work more efficiently and safely by streamlining security best practices into our platform architecture. Success requires technical leadership, security awareness, and a commitment to developer enablement. You will mentor engineers on DevOps principles and help improve team processes. This role is remote-first, based in Argentina or Mexico.

Requirements

• Be an experienced DevOps Engineer with a strong security mindset
• Have strong technical expertise in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and cloud platforms
• Possess excellent collaboration and communication skills
• This is a remote-first role based in Argentina or Mexico

Responsibilities

• Get fully integrated into the team’s workflow, integrate with the team, and begin contributing to secure, scalable infrastructure while identifying key opportunities to improve developer experience
• Build strong relationships across our engineering teams
• Gain an understanding of infrastructure workflows and shared responsibilities for security, and automation
• Champion a culture of ownership across the full software development lifecycle
• Enhance our Infrastructure Automation and cloud configuration, demonstrating expertise in IaC tools (e.g. Terraform) to enable consistent, auditable and automated infrastructure provisioning
• Mentor engineers on DevOps principles including security by design, observability, and infrastructure automation
• Share expertise in AWS, IaC, CI/CD, and security best practices
• Foster a culture of continuous learning through peer reviews, knowledge sharing, and hands-on technical leadership
• Engage fully in the team's agile ceremonies, retrospectives, and discussions
• Help evolve infrastructure and platform team practices such as automated testing for infrastructure, pipeline as code, and progressive delivery to improve feedback loops and system maintainability
• Lead infrastructure initiatives, improve developer experience, and serve as a key technical resource across teams
• Elevate developer productivity through automation, tooling, and security enablement
• Act as a technical resource for the team
• Fully own and improve key infrastructure components, such as IaC libraries, CI/CD pipelines, bootstrapping modules and monitoring tools
• Identify and implement enhancements to security controls, reliability, observability, or cost-efficiency improvements within our AWS infrastructure stack
• Introduce and refine internal tooling, templates, and scripts to eliminate friction in local development, and deployment
• Establish self-service workflows that empower developers without compromising security
• Continue engaging in pair programming and mobbing to lead important initiatives while fostering strong collaboration across the organization
• Document and advocate for DevOps best practices across the engineering organization
• Help the team break down complex work into vertical slices, ensuring incremental value delivery and fast feedback loops
• Mentor engineers across teams and collaborate with engineering managers to help support hiring efforts in Mexico
• Act as a connector between engineers, helping align best practices across teams
• Partner with engineering teams to document golden paths for infrastructure and deployment
• Establish patterns and playbooks that support consistent, secure, and productive developer workflows
• Refine best practices to replace outdated or problematic components by reducing accumulated technical debt in code and infrastructure to enhance system stability and maintainability
• Establish yourself as a technical leader and mentor, driving long-term improvements in productivity, platform reliability, and operational safety and helping shape OpenSesame’s engineering presence while driving technical excellence
• Foster a culture where each team member feels empowered to take initiative and contribute to the success of the team
• Encourage and create sustainable patterns and tooling that accelerate delivery without increasing risk
• Continue mentoring engineers at all levels, fostering a strong sense of collaboration and knowledge-sharing within both the Mexico team as it grows and the broader OpenSesame engineering team
• Work with engineering leadership to define and implement long-term technical strategies in infrastructure, security, and developer enablement that align with our company and team goals
• Provide thoughtful input to engineering leadership on the needs, challenges, and opportunities of growing the engineering team in Mexico
• Advocate for strategies that align with the team’s strengths and address gaps in skills or processes
• Continue leading efforts to retire legacy technologies and simplify architecture while ensuring the Drupal 7/Angular marketplace remains stable and well-supported