Key skills
AWS EC2AWS RDSPostgreSQLRedisOpenSearchDockerCircleCIGitHub ActionsRuby on RailsInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD pipelinesMonitoring and AlertingIncident ResponseRubyAIClaudeRailsAWSEC2RDSGitHubCI/CDLeadershipCommunication
About this role
CareerPlug is a remote-first software company that empowers SMB clients to hire and develop the right people. The Senior DevOps Engineer will own and operate the infrastructure and systems that support the engineering team, ensuring reliability and efficiency in the development process.
Responsibilities:
- Own and operate CareerPlug's AWS infrastructure, keeping production systems healthy, secure, right-sized, and cost-effective
- Manage and improve CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, GitHub Actions) to ensure fast, reliable builds and deploys for product engineers
- Contribute to the infrastructure that supports AI-augmented development, ensuring development environments stay reliable and well-suited as our use of AI coding tools expands
- Own local development environments and staging environments, ensuring engineers can set up and trust their environments for daily work
- Monitor alerting and observability infrastructure; respond to on-call incidents and conduct post-incident reviews that drive real improvements
- Write clean, well-documented infrastructure-as-code, pipeline configurations, and automation scripts
- Proactively communicate infrastructure changes, system health, and risks clearly to engineering leadership
Requirements:
- Experience with AWS (EC2, RDS/PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch)
- Proficiency in Docker
- Experience with CI/CD tools (CircleCI, GitHub Actions)
- Familiarity with Ruby on Rails
- Experience with AI Coding Tools (Claude, Cursor, Codex, Kilo Code, etc)
- Ability to own and operate AWS infrastructure
- Experience managing and improving CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to contribute to infrastructure supporting AI-augmented development
- Experience owning local development environments and staging environments
- Ability to monitor alerting and observability infrastructure
- Experience writing clean, well-documented infrastructure-as-code, pipeline configurations, and automation scripts
- Strong communication skills to proactively communicate infrastructure changes, system health, and risks