Senior DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

• Maintain and enhance Ansible playbooks and roles
• Manage AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation
• Operate and scale Kubernetes clusters with KEDA-based event-driven autoscaling
• Administer sharded MongoDB clusters and Elasticsearch databases
• Manage RabbitMQ and Redis clusters
• Maintain and improve monitoring stack (Nagios, ELK, CloudWatch, PagerDuty)
• Implement and enforce security controls (SELinux, FIPS compliance, OSSEC, WAF)
• Develop automation scripts in Python and Bash for operational tasks
• Support CI/CD pipelines using Atlassian Bamboo/GitHub Actions
• Participate in on-call rotation for production infrastructure support
• Create and maintain baseline AMIs for rapid environment provisioning

Requirements

• US Citizen with 3+ years of AWS experience
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Strong proficiency with Ansible (playbooks, roles, dynamic inventory)
• Experience operating Kubernetes clusters in production, including non-managed clusters.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB administration of sharded replica sets
• Familiarity with Nagios or similar monitoring platforms
• Experience with RabbitMQ and Redis (or similar) clustering
• Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting
• Experience with containerization (Docker, CRI-O)
• Familiarity with Linux administration (RHEL/Rocky Linux/CentOS)
• A firm understanding of AWS networking concepts

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• AWS
• Docker
• ElasticSearch
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• MongoDB
• Python
• RabbitMQ
• Redis

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with a bonus/commission structure based on pipeline creation
• Fully remote U.S. role with opportunities to travel for events and training
• Supported language courses
• Mental health support via .nilo (psychologists & digital tools)