Nuuly Senior DevOps Engineer

Nuuly•Philadelphia, PA

About The Position

Nuuly is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their growing Platform Engineering team. In this role, the engineer will be instrumental in building, scaling, and optimizing the infrastructure that powers Nuuly’s growth. The primary focus will be designing and maintaining scalable, secure cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), managing containerized workloads in Kubernetes, and enhancing CI/CD pipelines to support a rapidly expanding engineering organization. The engineer will collaborate closely with developers, SREs, and security teams to ensure systems are reliable, performant, and well-architected for scale. They will also play a key role in supporting and evolving the event-driven architecture leveraging Kafka, and drive continuous improvements across infrastructure, deployment practices, and platform tooling.

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar cloud infrastructure role.
Strong expertise in designing and managing cloud infrastructure (preferably on Google Cloud Platform, or similar systems).
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes cluster management, application deployment, scaling, and troubleshooting.
Practical experience building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines (preferably with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar tools).
Solid knowledge of event-driven architecture and asynchronous messaging (preferably with Kafka, or similar systems).
Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Shell, or Python).
Skilled in Infrastructure as Code tools (preferably with Terraform, or similar tools).
Deep understanding of containerization concepts (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud-native architecture.
Strong understanding of cloud security principles and best practices.
Excellent problem-solving abilities and a collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform.
Lead initiatives to scale and optimize CI/CD pipelines, ensuring efficient, automated, and secure deployments across multiple environments.
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to maintain system health, availability, and performance.
Collaborate with software engineers to integrate platform best practices into application development and deployment.
Support and enhance Kafka usage for our event-driven services, focusing on reliability and throughput optimization.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues across the infrastructure, networking, and application layers.
Contribute to infrastructure as code practices using tools such as Terraform.
Drive cloud security improvements and ensure adherence to best practices in a regulated environment.
Create and maintain clear documentation for infrastructure, CI/CD processes, and operational best practices.
Stay current with emerging DevOps tools, cloud services, and best practices, and drive adoption of relevant new technologies.