Sr. DevOps Engineer

TopDog Law is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the security, reliability, and cost of its cloud environments and engineering tools. The role focuses on AWS and GCP infrastructure, CI/CD, cloud security, tooling and cost management, and supporting teams with reliable delivery practices.

Responsibilities:

• Own the security posture of our AWS and GCP environments, including IAM and least-privilege access, network design and boundaries, secrets and encryption, and logging and audit, and drive risks to remediation
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code, with clear standards for accounts, environments, and networking that teams can follow
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines with security checks built in, and introduce proven deployment practices such as blue-green and canary releases with reliable rollback
• Assess existing DevOps processes, identify opportunities for improvement, and prioritize and implement solutions
• Administer external engineering tools, including Sentry, APM platforms, and testing tools, covering access, configuration, integrations, and licensing
• Track cloud and tooling spend, provide clear cost reporting to teams, and drive optimization
• Implement monitoring and alerting, and support incident response to keep platforms reliable
• Serve as the DevOps point of contact across business areas, help teams resolve delivery challenges, and document reusable practices and solutions

Requirements:

• 7+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure engineering, with a track record of securing and operating production cloud environments
• Deep AWS expertise, with working experience in GCP
• Strong networking skills, including VPC design, routing, segmentation, DNS, private connectivity, and defining clear security boundaries
• Strong cloud security practices, including IAM and least privilege, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability management, and audit logging
• Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies such as blue-green, canary, and automated rollback
• Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Experience administering engineering tools such as Sentry, APM platforms, and testing tools
• Experience with cloud cost visibility and management, including reporting spend clearly to technical and non-technical teams
• Broad understanding of engineering toolchains, including how components integrate and where improvements can be made
• Strong communication skills and a track record of supporting multiple teams and encouraging adoption of shared practices
• AWS certifications, such as Security Specialty or Solutions Architect Professional
• Experience with containers and orchestration (e.g., ECS, EKS, Kubernetes)
• Experience with observability tooling and standards (e.g., Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry)
• Experience supporting data platforms and pipelines (e.g., BigQuery, dbt)
• Experience with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, or in a regulated or document-heavy industry such as legal or financial services