Senior DevOps Engineer

Sydecar•San Francisco, CA

45d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer (Platform Engineer) to own our cloud infrastructure, developer experience, and core security and compliance foundations. This is a direction setting role for someone comfortable being the primary DevOps person in a small team. You will work closely with product and internal tooling engineers to make environments consistent and reliable, and you will act as our main contact with Google Cloud. If you like creating standards, automating repetitive work, and helping a startup move faster, this role is for you.

Requirements

7 or more years in DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure, or Platform roles
Experience in a startup or high growth environment where you owned outcomes and operated with limited direction
Strong hands on experience with Terraform in production, including modules and environment separation
Strong hands on experience with Docker and container based development
Cloud experience with GCP preferred, or strong AWS or Azure experience with willingness to complete GCP training or certification in 1 to 2 months
Working knowledge of Postgres in cloud environments including networking, access, and backups
Solid networking fundamentals including VPCs, firewalls, load balancers, and DNS
Comfort with Unix or Linux systems and shell scripting
Ability to work in some isolation while still providing leadership and clear guidance to application engineers

Nice To Haves

Experience with Redis or similar key value stores
Experience with CI or CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, or CircleCI
Exposure to Kubernetes, GKE, or other container orchestration platforms
Experience supporting SOC 2 or other compliance frameworks from an infrastructure perspective
Prior experience being the primary point of contact with a cloud provider

Responsibilities

Design, provision, and maintain production and other infrastructures in Google Cloud using Terraform
Standardize Docker based workflows so services run consistently across development, staging, and production
Define and document the path from laptop to cloud so engineers can self serve environment setup and deployments
Configure and maintain networking and security including VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, DNS, and IAM or service accounts
Support core services such as Postgres and Redis including connectivity, access management, backups or snapshots, and basic performance
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting so issues are visible, auditable, and easy to troubleshoot
Automate repetitive infrastructure tasks with scripts and tooling to increase engineering velocity
Work with engineering on SOC 2 related infrastructure controls and configuration hygiene
Own communication with Google Cloud support or consultants and drive recommended changes to completion
Produce and maintain runbooks, standards, and infrastructure documentation so knowledge is shared