Senior DevOps Engineer - Build / Environment Manager

Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems. They are seeking a Senior DevOps Lead Engineer to lead and evolve the DevOps function for the Be The People digital ecosystem, responsible for environments, CI/CD pipelines, release readiness, and operational guardrails.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the DevOps function end-to-end for Be The People, and contribute to how applications are assembled, tested, released, and operated
• Lead creation and lifecycle management of environments, including spinning up new environments and coordinating content and data seeding
• Contribute to the design and evolution of platform architecture with an emphasis on scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency
• Establish cloud standards and manage cloud operations in cooperation with Cloud Engineering
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions as the primary orchestrator
• Establish reusable workflow templates and best practices without introducing unnecessary complexity
• Apply Infrastructure-as-Code discipline — including versioning, promotion across environments, and drift prevention — using tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, CDK, Ansible, or CloudFormation
• Develop and debug Python, Ansible Playbooks, Terraform, and other infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Own or steward the release management function, acting as a go/no-go checkpoint to ensure required testing has occurred, stakeholder sign-offs are complete, and risks are clearly surfaced
• Participate in production incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-incident learning
• Construct a resilient ecosystem capable of quickly restoring services, and participate in developing the disaster recovery playbook for Be The People
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability for production systems using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, or ELK Stack
• Participate in the development, implementation, and automation of security policies
• Apply baseline security best practices across infrastructure and pipelines
• Apply SRE-inspired practices such as defining SLIs/SLOs and designing systems operable by teams beyond DevOps
• Deeply understand CDN configuration (e.g., Cloudflare), including caching layers and their impact on testing and production behavior
• Be competent in DNS concepts and troubleshooting, even if DNS ownership resides elsewhere
• Optimize cloud infrastructure (AWS primary; familiarity with Azure and GCP a plus) for performance, reliability, and cost
• Provide architectural guidance and design recommendations for cloud assets, resource consolidation, and standardized practices
• Help shape test automation strategy, recognizing AI-assisted testing and organizational QA maturity constraints
• Ensure testing happens and is validated, rather than personally writing all tests
• Partner with the testing team on test automation, test tracking, and incorporate into the release process
• Embed quality checks as first-class controls in delivery pipelines
• Serve as a technical leader who leads through influence rather than authority
• Collaborate cross-functionally with application, infrastructure, and data teams
• Participate in technical screening and interview panels, including short, high-signal technical screens
• Coach and mentor engineers on cloud and DevOps best practices, raising overall DevOps maturity
• Create and maintain durable documentation, including environment definitions, deployment processes, and runbooks

Requirements:

• 10+ years of relevant DevOps and Cloud Engineering experience — this is a senior-level role not suitable for junior or mid-level candidates
• Proven experience operating production systems with real customer and business impact
• Minimum 5 years of professional Cloud Engineering background, with deep AWS expertise
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions as the primary orchestrator
• Establish reusable workflow templates and best practices without introducing unnecessary complexity
• Apply Infrastructure-as-Code discipline — including versioning, promotion across environments, and drift prevention — using tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, CDK, Ansible, or CloudFormation
• Develop and debug Python, Ansible Playbooks, Terraform, and other infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Own or steward the release management function, acting as a go/no-go checkpoint to ensure required testing has occurred, stakeholder sign-offs are complete, and risks are clearly surfaced
• Participate in production incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-incident learning
• Construct a resilient ecosystem capable of quickly restoring services, and participate in developing the disaster recovery playbook for Be The People
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability for production systems using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, or ELK Stack
• Participate in the development, implementation, and automation of security policies
• Apply baseline security best practices across infrastructure and pipelines
• Apply SRE-inspired practices such as defining SLIs/SLOs and designing systems operable by teams beyond DevOps
• Deeply understand CDN configuration (e.g., Cloudflare), including caching layers and their impact on testing and production behavior
• Be competent in DNS concepts and troubleshooting, even if DNS ownership resides elsewhere
• Optimize cloud infrastructure (AWS primary; familiarity with Azure and GCP a plus) for performance, reliability, and cost
• Provide architectural guidance and design recommendations for cloud assets, resource consolidation, and standardized practices
• Help shape test automation strategy, recognizing AI-assisted testing and organizational QA maturity constraints
• Ensure testing happens and is validated, rather than personally writing all tests
• Partner with the testing team on test automation, test tracking, and incorporate into the release process
• Embed quality checks as first-class controls in delivery pipelines
• Serve as a technical leader who leads through influence rather than authority
• Collaborate cross-functionally with application, infrastructure, and data teams
• Participate in technical screening and interview panels, including short, high-signal technical screens
• Coach and mentor engineers on cloud and DevOps best practices, raising overall DevOps maturity
• Create and maintain durable documentation, including environment definitions, deployment processes, and runbooks
• Strong judgment and ownership — comfortable saying 'no' or 'not yet' when appropriate
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders around risk and tradeoffs
• Comfortable with command-line tools and the Linux/Unix environment
• Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect
• AWS or Azure certifications (Certified Developer, DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect, Data Analytics, or Database)
• Experience with regulated or compliance-sensitive environments
• Exposure to multi-product or platform organizations
• Experience modernizing legacy delivery practices
• Background in building and deploying web applications from source code
• DevSecOps experience including code analysis, vulnerability management, regulatory compliance, security policy monitoring, to help build a security-aware culture