Senior DevOps Engineer

CareerPlug

2d•Remote

About The Position

CareerPlug empowers others to reach their potential by providing innovative recruiting and HR software for over 60,000 clients. We solve one of the biggest problems in small businesses - attracting and retaining the right people. Our applicant tracking and retention platform helps companies make better hires to have the right people in place to build a successful business. We are committed to building one of the best places to work, fostering a diverse team, and creating a safe and welcoming environment built on inclusion and respect. The Senior DevOps Engineer is the trusted owner of the infrastructure and systems that our engineers and customers depend on every day. This role exists to give infrastructure the dedicated ownership and attention it deserves and ensure our engineering team can ship confidently and reliably. As our engineering team leans into AI-augmented development, this role will play a meaningful part in shaping the environments and infrastructure that make that work fast, safe, and reliable. You'll span platform engineering, site reliability, and developer experience, owning everything from cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and local development environments. This role is largely self-sufficient, but deeply collaborative: you'll work closely with our Principal Engineer and Platform Engineering Manager to keep production systems healthy, secure, and always improving. Senior DevOps Engineers at CP learn quickly, raise the bar on reliability and security, and are always looking for ways to improve the systems and processes that enable great engineering work.

Requirements

Own infrastructure operations largely independently within 3–6 months
Understand the current state of infrastructure, including why it was built that way
Proactively identify and address infrastructure improvements
Enable the engineering team by removing friction from development, deployment, and day-to-day operations
Shape environments and infrastructure that support AI coding tools
Learn quickly
Raise the bar on reliability and security
Always looking for ways to improve systems and processes

Responsibilities

Own and operate CareerPlug's AWS infrastructure, keeping production systems healthy, secure, right-sized, and cost-effective
Manage and improve CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, GitHub Actions) to ensure fast, reliable builds and deploys for product engineers
Contribute to the infrastructure that supports AI-augmented development, ensuring development environments stay reliable and well-suited as our use of AI coding tools expands
Own local development environments and staging environments, ensuring engineers can set up and trust their environments for daily work
Monitor alerting and observability infrastructure; respond to on-call incidents and conduct post-incident reviews that drive real improvements
Write clean, well-documented infrastructure-as-code, pipeline configurations, and automation scripts
Proactively communicate infrastructure changes, system health, and risks clearly to engineering leadership