Senior DevOps Engineer
A Place For Mom · Remote
About this role
## About the Role A Place for Mom is seeking an experienced **Senior DevOps Engineer** to help scale and evolve our cloud infrastructure, platform engineering capabilities, site reliability practices, and security posture. You’ll serve as a technical leader driving cloud infrastructure, automation, platform engineering, and reliability initiatives—partnering across Engineering, Security, Architecture, and Product. You’ll improve developer experience, strengthen security, increase platform reliability, and advance operational excellence. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in **AWS, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, cloud security, and SRE**, with a passion for mentoring engineers and leveraging emerging technologies (including AI-powered tooling) to boost engineering productivity. --- ## What You Will Do - Design, build, and operate **scalable, secure, highly available** cloud infrastructure across **AWS** - Lead platform engineering initiatives to improve **developer productivity**, **deployment velocity**, and **operational efficiency** - Drive **Infrastructure as Code** practices using **Terraform** (and help establish reusable patterns and engineering standards) - Build and enhance **CI/CD pipelines**, deployment automation, and self-service platform capabilities - Improve **observability** (monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response) - Partner with engineering teams to improve **reliability, performance, scalability, and resilience** - Collaborate with Security teams on **cloud security**, infrastructure hardening, access management, and compliance - Evaluate and implement new technologies, automation opportunities, and **AI-powered engineering tools** - Lead technical discussions, architectural reviews, and infrastructure design decisions - Mentor engineers and contribute to the growth of **DevOps, Platform Engineering, and SRE** practices --- ## What We Are Looking For - **7+ years** of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, or related disciplines - Deep hands-on experience designing, operating, and securing **AWS** environments - Strong expertise with **Terraform** (experience with **Terramate** or similar tools is a plus) - Experience managing containerized workloads using **ECS, EKS, Kubernetes**, or similar platforms - Strong experience building and maintaining **CI/CD pipelines** using **GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI**, or similar tools - Experience with observability platforms such as **New Relic, Datadog, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry** - Strong understanding of networking, cloud security, identity management, and distributed systems - Experience with automation and scripting using **Python, Bash, Go**, or similar languages - Excellent communication skills and ability to influence technical direction across teams - Proven ability to lead infrastructure initiatives and mentor engineers --- ## Preferred Qualifications - Experience operating **large-scale, multi-account AWS** environments - Experience building internal developer platforms and self-service infrastructure solutions - Experience implementing SRE practices including **SLOs, SLIs, and reliability metrics** - Experience supporting cloud security, compliance, and governance initiatives - Familiarity with **AI-powered developer tooling**, automation platforms, or cloud-native AI services - Relevant certifications (e.g., **AWS Professional, Security Specialty, Kubernetes, Terraform**,
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