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 setup, 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
• Demonstrable experience in infrastructure as code frameworks, in particular with Terraform, and configuration management using Ansible
• Production experience in creating and maintaining cloud environments in AWS, spanning across multiple geographic regions
• Experience building, maintaining and scaling database technologies such as Postgresql, MySQL, Redis, and DynamoDB
• Strong hands-on experience with the AWS ecosystem
• Experience with Prometheus/Grafana/Cloudwatch metrics monitoring, ELK/OpenSearch stack for logging, and alerting tools like PagerDuty
• Experience troubleshooting and autoscaling message queueing clusters in high availability clusters such as RabbitMQ, SQS or Kafka
• Ability to quickly learn complex systems from network through application

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with service mesh concepts and experience implementing frameworks like Istio or Linkerd with Kubernetes clusters
• Experience with building tooling, automation, and services in languages such as Go, Python, Bash, or Typescript
• Experience automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications with Docker or Kubernetes
• Security-centric approach to infrastructure as code, Docker build pipelines, and microservice deployments

Qualifications

• 7+ years of DevOps experience
• 5+ years of database administration experience
• Experience with large-scale distributed microservice deployments on Kubernetes and EC2
• Experience building and managing EKS clusters
• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary with base pay ranges from $165,900 to $279,900 USD depending on location and experience
• Potential eligibility for Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific commission/bonus
• Annual refresh stock grants
• Flexible work approach combining in-person and remote work, with at least 50% of time each quarter in the office or with customers
• Comprehensive benefits for Colorado residents as detailed in the provided link