Sr DevOps Engineer
About The Position
Artos builds tools that help biopharma companies create and manage R&D documentation more efficiently. The Senior DevOps Engineer will design, build, and maintain the infrastructure that powers the company’s platform, with a focus on scaling AWS infrastructure, improving Kubernetes environments, automating deployments, and creating tools that increase engineering productivity. This is a hands-on role focused on solving complex infrastructure problems, building reliable systems, and reducing operational friction through automation. The engineer will establish scalable infrastructure patterns and developer-friendly workflows that help the engineering team deliver software quickly, reliably, and securely. The role emphasizes pragmatic engineering, thoughtful automation, and choosing appropriate tools without adding unnecessary complexity. The position is based in Artos’s Mission Bay office, with in-person work expected 4–5 days per week, and involves working in a fast-paced startup environment.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience designing and operating production infrastructure on AWS.
- Deep experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Argo CD.
- Strong experience with Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting and programming languages.
- Strong understanding of Linux, networking, DNS, load balancing, and distributed systems.
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry.
- Experience with infrastructure automation, configuration management, and repeatable deployment processes.
- Familiarity with container security scanning, dependency scanning, and infrastructure validation tools.
- Working knowledge of AWS IAM, secrets management, and cloud networking best practices.
- Experience troubleshooting complex production issues and improving system reliability.
- Ability to make sound architectural decisions while balancing scalability, maintainability, cost, and operational simplicity.
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to collaborate in a fast-moving engineering environment.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced and intense startup environment.
- Willingness to work in person at the Mission Bay office 4–5 days per week.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building internal developer platforms, self-service infrastructure, or standardized deployment workflows.
- Experience with Kubernetes packaging and configuration tools such as Helm templates or Jsonnet.
- Familiarity with declarative configuration languages and tools such as ytt/Starlark, CUE, or Dhall.
- Experience evaluating configuration and templating approaches based on expressiveness, maintainability, and operational practicality.
- Experience with GitOps workflows using Argo CD or Flux.
- Experience with Kubernetes operators, service meshes, or advanced cluster networking.
- Experience with cloud security and infrastructure scanning tools such as Trivy, Snyk, Checkov, or tfsec.
- Familiarity with policy-as-code tools such as Open Policy Agent (OPA), Kyverno, or HashiCorp Sentinel.
- Experience with secrets management tools such as HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager.
- Experience supporting multi-tenant SaaS applications or distributed systems at scale.
- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, data pipelines, or compute-intensive workloads.
- Experience operating infrastructure in regulated environments or supporting SOC 2 compliance requirements.
- Experience working in an early-stage or rapidly scaling startup.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable AWS infrastructure across production and development environments.
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters, containerized applications, and deployment workflows.
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, incorporating automated testing, dependency scanning, and container image scanning.
- Develop reusable infrastructure components and automate provisioning using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code best practices.
- Create standardized deployment patterns, infrastructure templates, and self-service tools to improve developer productivity.
- Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
- Improve infrastructure reliability, performance, availability, and cost efficiency.
- Automate repetitive operational tasks, environment configuration, and infrastructure maintenance.
- Integrate security and infrastructure validation tools into development and deployment workflows.
- Manage cloud access controls, IAM policies, secrets management, and secure configuration practices.
- Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term improvements.
- Collaborate with software engineers to improve deployment workflows, application performance, and developer experience.
- Help establish infrastructure standards and operational practices for a growing engineering organization.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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