Rocket Learning

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This is a remote position. Senior DevOps Engineer – Infrastructure & Platform Reports to: Head of Infrastructure / Director of Platform Engineering Team: Leads a DevOps team of 3 Experience: 8–10+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering About the Role We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to own our infrastructure and lead a small, growing team. We work with sensitive data belonging to vulnerable populations, so security and privacy aren't afterthoughts — they're core to how we build. You'll run multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, MongoDB Atlas), champion open-source tooling over vendor lock-in, and help shape an engineering culture that takes both craft and mission seriously. What You'll Do Infrastructure & Reliability Design and operate secure, highly-available infrastructure across AWS and GCP. Own MongoDB Atlas end-to-end (provisioning, scaling, backups, performance tuning). Drive infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Ansible) so environments are consistent and reproducible. Security & Privacy Apply security best practices by default — IAM, network segmentation, encryption, secrets management (OpenBao/Vault), vulnerability scanning. Treat data protection as a first-class requirement given the sensitivity of the populations we serve, not just a compliance checkbox. Open-Source Tooling Evaluate, self-host, and own the lifecycle (upgrades, HA, patching) of open-source tools like SigNoz, SonarQube, and OpenBao — reducing vendor dependency without compromising reliability. Monitoring & Incident Response Build observability stacks (metrics, logs, traces) and intelligent alerting that cuts noise, not signal. Define SLIs/SLOs. Be a senior escalation point for major incidents and drive blameless postmortems. CI/CD & Automation Maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab CI/GitHub Actions) with quality and security gates built in. Manage Kubernetes-based container orchestration and automate routine operational work. Leadership & Collaboration Lead and develop a team of 3 DevOps engineers — workload, mentorship, growth. Build good processes, not just good infrastructure. Work closely with engineering, product, and security teams, and stay genuinely invested in why the work matters. What We're Looking For • 8–10+ years across DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure, including experience leading or mentoring a team • Strong hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, and hybrid/on-prem environments • Proven track record self-hosting and operating open-source infrastructure tools in production • Solid grounding in security and privacy engineering — this matters more here than in a typical infra role • Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform/Ansible, and modern CI/CD • Strong Linux administration and scripting (Bash, Python or Go) • A genuine interest in our mission — this isn't a "just infra" role; you'll be working on systems that serve vulnerable communities, and that context should matter to you • Clear communicator who can work across technical and non-technical teams Good to have: MongoDB Atlas experience, observability/AIOps tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, SigNoz), FinOps/cost optimization, relevant certifications (AWS, GCP, CKA).