Senior DevOps Engineer
Description Worth AI, a leader in the computer software industry, is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Infrastructure team with a singular mission: to make our systems faster, more reliable, and more resilient while making life dramatically easier for engineers shipping software. This is a hands-on build role. You will spend most of your time writing Terraform, tuning Kubernetes workloads, automating things that are currently manual, and shipping infrastructure changes to production. You'll join a small platform team with an established roadmap and existing patterns, and a strong voice in how the work gets built. Responsibilities - Implement scalable Infrastructure-as-Code patterns using tools like Terraform to standardize cloud provisioning and reduce configuration drift. - Own and evolve our Kubernetes platform (EKS or self-managed), ensuring workloads are secure, scalable, and resilient by default. - Optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment frequency, reduce lead time, and increase confidence in releases. - Design and enforce secure networking, IAM, and secrets management strategies across environments. - Improve observability by refining metrics, logs, and tracing using tools like DataDog, ensuring actionable insight into system health. - Optimize cloud cost efficiency through rightsizing, autoscaling strategies, and architectural improvements. - Implement disaster recovery planning, backup strategies, and multi-region resilience initiatives. - Refactor brittle or manually managed infrastructure into automated, testable, and reproducible systems. - Introduce new infrastructure tooling or architectural shifts and drive adoption through documentation, workshops, and hands-on support. - Partner with engineering teams to eliminate friction in CI/CD, deployments, and cloud environments. - Communicate technical trade-offs clearly across engineering and product stakeholders, balancing speed with safety. Technology Stack - Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, RDS, MSK, S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC) - Containerization & Orchestration: Kubernetes, ArgoCD - Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform - CI/CD: GitHub Actions - Monitoring & Observability: DataDog - Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis - Languages (as needed): Bash, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript Requirements - 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering. - Proven experience designing and operating production Kubernetes environments at scale. - Deep hands-on expertise with AWS infrastructure and cloud networking. - Strong experience building and maintaining Terraform modules across large cloud environments. - Demonstrated ownership of CI/CD systems and measurable improvement of DORA metrics. - Experience leading incident response processes and driving meaningful postmortem outcomes. - Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures (Kafka), and database performance (PostgreSQL). - Proven ability to modernize legacy infrastructure and eliminate manual operational toil. - Track record of taking a scoped infrastructure project from an ambiguous starting point to production without needing daily direction. - Demonstrated ability to build trust across teams while raising the reliability bar. Success Metrics - System Reliability: Maintain or exceed defined SLO/SLA targets with reduced incident frequency and duration. - Infrastructure Stability: Reduce production incidents caused by misconfiguration, manual processes, or infrastructure drift. - Operational Efficiency: Increase the percentage of infrastructure managed through code and automation. - Cost Optimization: Improve cloud cost efficiency without sacrificing reliability or performance. Bonus Points (Nice to Have) - Experience coding applications - Experience operating high-throughput Kafka clusters (MSK or self-managed) - Strong background in database performance tuning (PostgreSQL, Redis) - Experience implementing autoscaling strategies for high-traffic systems - Familiarity with service mesh technologies - Experience building internal developer platforms (IDP) - Background in security best practices (zero-trust networking, policy-as-code) - Experience with multi-region or globally distributed systems - Experience introducing platform-wide reliability frameworks (SLOs, error budgets, chaos testing) Additional Details - All Remote Hires will be required to travel to Orlando, Florida at least twice per year for Town Halls and team collaboration, in addition to orientation in Orlando. Benefits - Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) - Retirement Plan (401k) - Life Insurance - Flexible Paid Time Off - 9 paid Holidays - Family Leave - Remote Hybrid work (for Orlando Associates) - Free Food & Snacks (Orlando) - Wellness Resources