Sr. DevOps Engineer - Kohler Ventures

Kohler•New York, NY

45d•$114,500 - $145,450•Hybrid

About The Position

Kohler Ventures is an independent company wholly owned by Kohler Co., global leader in the manufacture of kitchen and bath products, tile and home interiors, and an international host to award-winning hospitality and world-class golf destinations. Our mission is to build new digital businesses that empower consumers to lead healthier lives. We explore how familiar experiences can be enhanced and innovations developed through the integration of leading-edge technology, science, and design. Come join us as we build a best-in-class global multi-disciplinary team across artificial intelligence, machine learning, design, advanced software and hardware engineering, strategy, venture investments, sales, marketing, and partnerships. Our locations are Palo Alto, CA US, New York City, NY US, Kohler, WI US, Seoul, Korea, and Tel Aviv, Israel. In your role as Sr. DevOps Engineer at Kohler Ventures you will: Work directly with the Head of Software, software engineering team, and product teams Design cloud backend architecture that can scale with the business growth of Kohler Ventures Build the forward-looking vision and lead the effort to understand and drive requirements with hardware/software teams. Measurably improve code normalization across one or more critical code concerns throughout the codebase

Requirements

You hold a bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
You've spent over 5 years orchestrating the cloud tasks with AWS and CDK.
You embody the essence of DevOps processes advocating for collaboration, monitoring automation and continuous improvement.
Hands-on experience with wide range of AWS services including networking, security, apps hosting, scripting infrastructure as code, supporting productions environments, monitoring/troubleshooting/ maintaining high availability, scalability, robustness, and performance. Kubernetes, ArgoCD (K8S controller), Github Actions
Availability to work outside of standard business hours as needed to be able to collaborate with teams across multiple time zones.
Ability to travel 10% of time both domestically and internationally if needed.

Nice To Haves

Experience deploying and maintaining data streaming platforms experience with either Kafka or Solace.
Strong technical experience in some of the following areas: API Descriptor specifications, such as Protocol Buffers, GraphQL, OpenAPI.
Experience in cloud security architecture and infrastructure.
Strong ability to communicate complex technical and management information clearly and concisely.

Responsibilities

Work directly with the Head of Software, software engineering team, and product teams
Design cloud backend architecture that can scale with the business growth of Kohler Ventures
Build the forward-looking vision and lead the effort to understand and drive requirements with hardware/software teams.
Measurably improve code normalization across one or more critical code concerns throughout the codebase