Senior DevOps Engineer

Growth Acceleration Partners • Colorado Springs, CO

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About The Position

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our cloud infrastructure within a fast-paced product development environment. This role is essential for ensuring that all infrastructure deployments are secure, cost-effective, and scalable. You will operate with a high level of autonomy, coding infrastructure efficiently, building self-service tools to empower engineering teams, and driving the continuous improvement of our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Software Engineering roles
• Proven experience working in high-growth environments, architecting and managing scalable cloud infrastructure (ideally GCP)
• Experience designing, implementing, and managing Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) pipelines
• Track record of building self-service infrastructure tools and partnering closely with cross-functional development and security teams
• Strong experience in several of the following areas:
• Cloud Architecture: Proven experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) architecture and cloud environments
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advanced expertise in Terraform, including writing and refactoring code into reusable modules and safely importing existing resources
• Containers & Orchestration: Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including deploying workloads and effective debugging
• CI/CD & Delivery: Proficient in implementing and managing automated CI/CD pipelines
• Observability: Solid experience with various modern monitoring, logging, and alerting tools
• Advanced English proficiency
• Great communication, mentoring, and negotiation skills
• Strong technical support skills and a customer-centric mindset towards internal teams
• Excellent time management and organizational abilities
• Proactive mindset with an openness to continuously learn and adopt new technologies

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Istio Service Mesh, leveraging its features to address and resolve development challenges
• Hands-on experience with ArgoCD and writing/refining Helm charts
• Experience building and maintaining pipelines using GitHub Actions

Responsibilities

• Manage, implement, and review infrastructure change requests submitted by development teams, ensuring safe and secure execution
• Design and build robust self-service tools to facilitate seamless infrastructure modifications for engineering teams
• Drive continuous optimization, cost-efficiency, and performance improvement of the GCP infrastructure
• Troubleshoot and resolve operational issues rapidly, ensuring maximum system stability and reliability
• Enhance and maintain software delivery pipeline efficiency across the engineering organization
• Partner with and mentor internal teams on infrastructure best practices, architectural options, and capabilities
• Collaborate closely with the Security team to execute infrastructure-related security projects and enforce compliance guardrails

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees