Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer

Koddi • Fort Worth, TX

86d

About The Position

Koddi is looking for a Senior Platform/DevOps engineer focused on delivery. You’ll design and operate cloud infrastructure, partner with product and engineering, and keep work moving by turning ambiguity into clear milestones and crisp updates. Koddi Engineers drive innovation by embracing challenges and deploying emerging technologies to solve complex problems in software development.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in a DevOps/Platform role
• Strong experience with cloud technologies including auto-scaling and load balancing (EC2, VMs, etc.)
• Experience with cloud storage (S3, BLOB, etc.)
• Experience with container services (ECS, etc.) and Kubernetes services (EKS, etc.)
• Experience with IAM and VPCs
• Exceptional communicator: concise, audience-aware updates from exec summary to deep-dive.
• Proven habit of turning ambiguous work into milestone plans with clear owners/dates.
• Experience running daily stand-ups or async status (tickets, acceptance criteria, dependencies).
• Understanding of system administration in Linux (and possibly Windows) environments
• Proficiency with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, PagerDuty, CloudWatch)
• Proficiency with Bash and Python
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Cloudformation)
• Experience with Version Control Software (Git preferred)
• Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, TravisCI)
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef)
• Solid understanding of networking concepts (e.g., VPC, subnetting, routing, etc.)
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues
• Experience with Jira or similar project management software
• Well versed in maintaining a secure environment

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure for our SaaS platform
• Create and maintain daily/weekly milestones with partners; drive progress and surface risks with concise written updates.
• Run lightweight standups or async check-ins; track status in Jira with clear acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to ensure smooth deployment and operation of services
• Maintain critical applications on cloud-native microservices architecture
• Implement automation, effective monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code
• Manage our continuous integration and delivery pipeline to maximize efficiency
• Iterate on best practices to increase the quality and velocity of deployments
• Ensure compliance with security best practices and industry standards
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotations for mission-critical systems
• Identify infrastructure problems before they happen and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages
• Secure, scale, and manage Linux (and possibly Windows) environments
• Continuously evaluate existing systems against industry standards and make recommendations for improvement
• Work collaboratively with multiple agile teams to help deliver end-to-end products and features, seeing them through from conception to delivery
• Own delivery for assigned initiatives (scope as DRI), ensuring timelines align with goals.
• Contribute inputs to cross-functional plans by mapping dependencies and milestones.
• Own core operational responsibilities (incident response, patching, reliability tasks).

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees