Senior DevOps Engineer

Description

The company is a cloud video platform provider offering video security, business intelligence and loss prevention products, and has built easy-to-use video management systems for over 20 years.

Its on-site and cloud systems protect schools, hospitals, banks, retail stores and other facilities worldwide, sold through certified service partners across the globe.

The company is a subsidiary of a larger parent company. Job code JR105755.

This is an individual contributor role on the DevOps Engineering Team. You will push production-level DevOps work forward, bring real technical depth, and work independently in complex operational environments while collaborating closely with others.

The ideal person is a strong programmer or scripter who works well in a team and can take ownership of complex systems.

The team's stack includes AWS, Docker, K8s, Grafana, OTEL, Agentic AI, Git, GitOps, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, MySQL, CrateDB, and more.

The culture is casual, collaborative and creative, and idea sharing is encouraged.

Responsibilities

• Keep the cloud environment highly available for global video and related services, and monitor its health.
• Help developers release and deploy software, and assist with production deployments that follow compliance and operating procedures.
• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure with scale, security and compliance in mind, including SOC 2, ISO 27001 and readiness for future certifications.
• Recommend ways to improve scalability, performance and cost, and help reduce cloud spend by adjusting resource allocation and scaling.
• Speed up and strengthen CI/CD pipelines so releases ship faster and more reliably.
• Automate environment setup, system updates and security patching.
• Containerize workloads with developers and make service deployments smoother.
• Work with the SRE team on advanced monitoring and alerting, and help define and consistently meet service-level objectives (SLOs).
• Find root causes of live production problems and ship the fixes.
• Keep learning new technology, including advanced agentic workflows, and over time independently oversee deployments and production systems.
• Take on other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of DevOps or related experience.
• Strong AWS skills, including scaling, networking, security and automation.
• Strong programming or scripting in Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python or similar languages.
• Experience with CI/CD systems, infrastructure as code and monitoring tools.
• A proven record of troubleshooting production systems under pressure.
• Strong communication skills for working across teams.
• Sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time.

Conditions

Base pay is $100,000-$130,000 USD per year, set by qualifications, location and experience, and is part of total compensation.

The role is eligible for a flexible hybrid work schedule.

Recruiters and agencies: the company does not accept resumes from third parties for this role. If one is submitted without a signed agreement, the company may hire that candidate without owing a fee.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and handles application data, including criminal background checks where the law allows.

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus.
• Stock purchase at a discounted rate.
• Medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage from day 1, with a generous medical plan subsidy and a health savings account option that includes company contribution.
• Company match of up to $5,000 per year into a 401k.
• Company-paid short-term and long-term disability, AD&D and life insurance.
• Paid maternity and paternity leave.
• 15 days of paid vacation accrued per year, increasing after 3 years.
• 7 paid sick or wellness days per year.
• 9 paid holidays per year.
• Educational assistance covering non-degree support, undergraduate degrees and graduate degrees.
• Free home security system through the parent company's equipment program.
• Casual dress code, with jeans welcome.