Sr Distributed Systems Engineer (Evisort - DevOps)

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Design infrastructure and automated systems to support our distributed architecture
• Build and Manage CI/CD pipelines and constantly improve their reliability & speed, and reduce lead time for changes
• Trace performance bottlenecks and identify optimizations and improvements at both the infrastructure and application level
• Collaborate with our engineering team to meet high SLO and SLA requirements from customers
• Maintain highly available web and backend systems that serve millions of users, and thousands of requests per second
• Closely collaborate with Developers to set up, configure, and plan the necessary cloud services in support of new feature development on AWS
• Secure our infrastructure at both the cloud layer (IAM) and application layer (PKI)
• Build and expand monitoring and alerting systems for infrastructure and business operations, using internal tools & integrating third-party SaaS solutions
• Establish comprehensive infrastructure-as-code coverage to support our platform
• Develop tools to enhance and support Developer Productivity
• Champion automation of manual processes and reduce operational overhead

Requirements

• 7+ years DevOps experience
• 5+ years database administration experience (Postgres, MariaDB, MSSQL)
• 4+ years experience orchestrating large scale distributed microservice deployments on Kubernetes and EC2
• 4+ years experience building and managing EKS clusters and strong knowledge of the Kubernetes ecosystem
• A degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with infrastructure as code frameworks, particularly Terraform, and configuration management using Ansible
• Production experience in creating and maintaining cloud environments in AWS across multiple regions
• Experience building tooling, automation, and services in languages such as Go, Python, Bash, or Typescript
• Experience debugging and optimizing systems and code
• Automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications with Docker or Kubernetes
• Strong hands-on experience with the AWS ecosystem
• Familiarity with service mesh frameworks like Istio or Linkerd
• Experience with Prometheus/Grafana/Cloudwatch, ELK/OpenSearch, PagerDuty, and alerting systems
• Experience scaling database technologies such as Postgresql, MySQL, Redis, and DynamoDB
• Troubleshooting and autoscaling message queueing clusters like RabbitMQ, SQS, or Kafka
• Security-centric approach to infrastructure design and deployment
• Ability to quickly learn complex systems from network to application

Nice to Have

• Experience with service mesh concepts and frameworks like Istio or Linkerd
• Experience with message queueing clusters such as RabbitMQ, SQS, or Kafka
• Experience with build systems like GitHub, GitLab CI

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary with pay ranges based on location and experience
• Potential eligibility for bonuses, commissions, and stock grants
• Flexible work approach combining in-person and remote work
• Opportunity to work on innovative cloud platform technologies
• Work in a company that values employee privacy, data security, and diversity