Senior DevOps and Application Engineer

Sunrise Senior Living • McLean, VA

5d • $172,853 - $216,067

About The Position

Sunrise Senior Living seeks a hands-on Senior DevOps and Application Engineer to build applications, APIs, automation, and scalable AWS cloud infrastructure. The role combines software development and DevOps to deliver reliable, secure, production-ready solutions that improve community experiences, solve operational problems, and support new revenue streams.

The engineer develops internal tools and customer-facing applications, improves software delivery through CI/CD and automation, and provisions and enhances AWS infrastructure with attention to architecture, scalability, reliability, and cost. The role also strengthens production monitoring and observability, diagnoses issues, and turns recurring problems and repetitive tasks into durable engineering improvements. The engineer works directly with users, customers, business stakeholders, and fellow engineers to understand needs, validate ideas, and improve products through feedback.

The position calls for end-to-end ownership of solutions from problem definition through development, deployment, and ongoing support, along with practical technical judgment and clear communication. Sunrise emphasizes supporting its Mission, Principles of Service, and Core Values, including its foundational belief in the sacred value of human life.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional experience in software engineering, DevOps, or a combination of both, with hands-on capability across application development and production operations.
• Experience running production workloads on AWS, including deploying, monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving them.
• Ability to build production-quality applications in a modern language such as Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Go, C#, or Java.
• Ownership across the software lifecycle, from understanding the problem and reviewing code to deploying a solution and keeping it reliable.
• Clear communication and practical judgment when working with technical and nontechnical colleagues, explaining tradeoffs, and choosing appropriate solutions.
• Ability to design, develop, test, and maintain production-quality applications, APIs, automation, and integrations using modern software engineering practices.
• Capability in AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, containerization, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, and cloud architecture.
• Ability to identify and resolve technical issues, strengthen monitoring and observability, improve system reliability, and automate repetitive processes.
• Ability to make pragmatic, scalable, secure, and cost-conscious technical decisions and collaborate with end users, customers, stakeholders, and technical teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with delivery and infrastructure tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Experience with AWS containers and observability tools such as ECS, EKS, CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, or Prometheus.
• Experience with front-end frameworks such as React.
• Experience with AI-assisted development workflows.
• Experience with secure application design.

Responsibilities

• Build internal tools, customer-facing applications, APIs, and automation to improve community experiences, solve operational problems, and support new revenue streams.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate testing and deployments, and standardize how services are built, containerized, and released.
• Provision and improve AWS cloud infrastructure, making pragmatic decisions about architecture, scalability, reliability, and cost.
• Strengthen monitoring and observability, diagnose production issues, and turn recurring problems and repetitive tasks into durable engineering improvements.
• Work directly with users, customers, business stakeholders, and fellow engineers to understand needs, validate ideas, and improve products through feedback.
• Own solutions end to end, from problem definition through development and deployment to ongoing support.
• Communicate technical concepts and tradeoffs and choose practical solutions suited to the problem.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans.
• Retirement savings plans.
• Employee Assistance Program and discount program.
• Paid time off (PTO), sick time, and holiday pay.
• myFlexPay, which offers access to pay within hours of a shift.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Sunrise may offer discretionary and/or non-discretionary bonuses, subject to position, plan/program eligibility, and required performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed