Sr. DevOps Engineer - AWS

Posted Aug 12

JOB TITLE: Sr. DevOps/SRE Engineer - AWS (All Latam)

LOCATION: LATAM – Remote

COMMITMENT: Full-time

Overview

Our client is seeking a very experienced Sr. DevOps Engineer to join their fun and growing world-class team of engineers. Our client has a strong, collaborative company culture and offers a chance to make a meaningful difference in our customers’ lives. We are a “people-first” organization seeking team players with a high level of emotional intelligence, appreciation for teamwork, and dedication toward building amazing tools for our team and customers alike.

Job Description

As an Engineer on the team, you’ll work with fellow engineers and product managers to prepare us for accelerated growth. This team has the gift of focus, on security (safeguarding the business) and scalability (scaling both technically (AWS) and product wise (VCT)) while giving the power of focus back to the product teams.

The platform team operates like an internal inspired product team. This team finds out what problems people are facing and takes a product development approach to building the platform.

This position is based remotely and will work with colleagues in Europe and in the United States.

What You’ll Do

  • Infrastructure Governance: Develop and maintain automation tools to streamline software deployment processes and enhance the scalability of the infrastructure.
  • Security Considerations: Implement security best practices, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems and data.
  • Reliability and Uptime: Design and implement processes and systems that guarantee site reliability, eliminate downtime, and ensure services meet user needs, both internally and externally.
  • Full-Stack Capabilities: Contribute to full-stack development efforts, leveraging your software engineering background to tackle diverse technical challenges across the technology stack.
  • Collaboration and Communication: Foster effective communication and collaboration between development and operations teams to expedite product development and resolve operational challenges.
  • Proactive Issue Management: Anticipate and address potential operational issues by implementing robust monitoring, alerting, and mitigation strategies, thereby ensuring high application performance and customer responsiveness.
  • Continuous Improvement: Continuously enhance the infrastructure's deployability, scalability, and stability through iterative improvements and innovative solutions.
  • Productivity Enhancement: Deliver improvements in the productivity of all product engineers by implementing common cross-team and cross-service functionality, such as log aggregation, site reliability, data preparation for analysts, inter-service authentication and authorization.

What You’ll Need

  • 7 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, or a related field.
  • Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services (Certification preferred), including but not limited to EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and related technologies.
  • Proven track record in automating deployment processes, using CI/CD pipelines, and enhancing collaboration between development and operations teams.
  • Ability to contribute to both backend and frontend development tasks, showcasing a comprehensive understanding of modern software development practices.
  • Strong understanding of metrics, monitoring, and alerting tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and the ability to utilize them effectively to maintain performance.
  • Deep familiarity with security best practices and the ability to implement them to safeguard systems and data.
  • Demonstrated experience diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues, as well as a proactive attitude towards addressing potential problems.
  • Self-driven and capable of taking initiative to introduce improvements and novel solutions to enhance operational efficiency.
  • Advanced English speaking and writing skills.

About Our Client

#1 purpose is to empower you to connect with the ones you love. By providing an award-winning, easy-to-use design platform that gives you unrivaled creative freedom to design and share one-of-a-kind stories. Help you transform your favorite moments into meaningful, unique, and personalized photo books, cards, calendars, and wall art. Why? Connection matters. In a world where we are further away than ever from those we care about, creating and sharing memories helps us feel closer together.

#1 rated in photo books in the US and has over 26,000 verified 5-star reviews. More than 6M people love our powerful and intuitive editor, superb quality, designer themes, and our fanatical customer service. According to NYT Wirecutter, “Makes it fun”. Founded by two Inc 30 Under 30 Entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley, partnered with creative DIY expert Martha Stewart and has been recognized by countless media outlets, including The Today Show, Good Morning America, TechCrunch, The Verge, New York Times, and Washington Post.

About Builders:

Builders leverages highly skilled distributed engineering teams with Latin America’s top software talent. Connecting top technology startups, mid-size companies and large enterprises across North America with superior tech talent needed to innovate, compete and excel in their field of business.

Our Benefits:

  • Paid online learning.
  • Sponsored certifications.
  • In-person events throughout the year.
  • Online hack-a-thons / coding challenges.
  • Access to a community of talented individuals like yourself across Latin America. Offering a wealth of knowledge sharing and learning.
  • Generous PTO plan and local holidays paid
  • Payment in USD.