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• *Job Title:** Remote Remote DevOps Engineer • *Location:** Remote — based in **Aurora**, **Colorado** --- About the Role We are seeking a proactive, hands‑on Remote DevOps Engineer to join our fast‑growing Platform Services team. In this role you will be the bridge between development and operations, driving the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of our cloud‑native infrastructure that powers the core products used by thousands of customers worldwide. Reporting directly to the **Director of Site Reliability Engineering**, you will own end‑to‑end delivery pipelines, reliability tooling, and automation frameworks while championing a culture of measurable performance and relentless reliability. This position is rooted in **Aurora**, **Colorado**, giving you the flexibility to work from home while staying connected to a vibrant local tech community. --- Key Responsibilities - **Design & Build Scalable Infrastructure** – Architect, provision, and manage production‑grade environments on **AWS** (EC2, RDS, S3) using **Terraform** and **AWS CloudFormation**, ensuring 99.9 % uptime for services serving customers in **Aurora**, **Colorado** and beyond. - **Container Orchestration** – Deploy, monitor, and evolve Kubernetes clusters (EKS) with Helm charts, managing service meshes and autoscaling policies to handle traffic spikes of up to 3× peak load. - **CI/CD Automation** – Own end‑to‑end pipelines in **GitHub Actions** and **Jenkins**, integrating static analysis, security scanning (Trivy, Snyk) and automated roll‑backs for 85 % of deployments performed without manual intervention. - **Monitoring & Observability** – Configure Prometheus alerts, Grafana dashboards, and distributed tracing (Jaeger) to achieve a Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) of under 5 minutes and a Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) of under 30 minutes. - **Configuration Management** – Implement immutable infrastructure patterns with **Ansible** and **Packer**, reducing configuration drift across 150+ servers and virtual machines. - **Security & Compliance** – Work with the Security team to embed Open Policy Agent (OPA) policies, enforce least‑privilege IAM roles, and maintain PCI‑DSS compliance for all data‑handling services. - **Incident Management & Post‑mortems** – Lead on‑call rotation for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) duties, drive blameless post‑mortems, and develop runbooks that cut incident resolution time by 40 % for services used by the **Aurora** user base. - **Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing** – Partner with software engineers, product owners, and data scientists to embed DevOps best practices into every sprint, facilitating weekly brown‑bag sessions and quarterly internal hackathons. - **Cost Optimization** – Analyze cloud spend using AWS Cost Explorer and CloudHealth, delivering quarterly recommendations that realize at least a 15 % reduction in infrastructure cost without sacrificing performance. - **Documentation & Standards** – Maintain up‑to‑date architecture diagrams in Confluence, enforce version‑controlled Terraform modules, and contribute to the internal DevOps handbook used across all **Colorado** offices. --- Required Qualifications 1. **Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field** or equivalent professional experience. 2. **3–5 years of hands‑on experience** as a DevOps, Site Reliability, or Cloud Engineer, preferably in a SaaS environment. 3. Proven expertise with **AWS**, **Terraform**, **Kubernetes**, **Docker**, **GitHub Actions** (or Jenkins), **Prometheus**, and **Grafana**. 4. Strong scripting skills in **Python** or **Bash**, with the ability to author reusable automation libraries. 5. Experience building and maintaining **CI/CD pipelines** that support at least 50 daily deployments with 99 % success rate. 6. Solid understanding of **networking concepts** (VPC, DNS, load balancing) and **security best practices** (IAM, encryption, secret management). 7. Demonstrated ability to work in **high‑availability, 24/7 production** environments and participate in on‑call rotations. 8. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, enabling you to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders in **Aurora**, **Colorado**. --- Preferred Qualifications - **AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional** or **Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)**. - Experience with **Helm**, **Istio**, or other service‑mesh technologies. - Background in **data‑engineering pipelines** (e.g., Airflow, Spark) or **machine‑learning platforms**. - Prior work in a regulated industry (e.g., finance, healthcare) with familiarity of **PCI‑DSS**, **HIPAA**, or **SOC 2** compliance. - Demonstrated leadership – mentored junior engineers or led a small DevOps team. - Contributions to open‑source projects related to infrastructure automation or monitoring. --- Compensation & Benefits - **Salary:** **$125,000 – $155,000 annually**, commensurate with experience and proven impact. - **Performance‑based bonus** up to 15 % of base salary. - Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans covering you and eligible dependents. - **401(k) match** – 5 % of salary. - **Remote work stipend** of $2,000 per year for home‑office upgrades (ergonomic chair, monitor, high‑speed internet). - **State‑specific remote perks** for **Colorado** residents: quarterly coworking space credit, tax‑advantaged home‑office deduction assistance, and local wellness program partnerships. - Generous paid time off (PTO) – 20 days + company holidays, plus unlimited sick days. - Professional development budget of $3,000 annually for certifications, conferences, or online courses. --- Work Setup - **Time Zones:** Primarily North American Eastern (EST/EDT) and Central (CST/CDT) time zones; core collaboration hours are 10 am–4 pm **Aurora** time. - **Remote‑First:** All meetings are conducted over **Zoom** and **Slack**; we maintain an **85 % async** communication model to respect different schedules. - **Meeting Cadence:** Daily stand‑ups (15 min), bi‑weekly sprint planning (1 hr), weekly architecture reviews (1 hr), monthly all‑hands (1 hr). - **Equipment:** Must have a stable broadband connection (minimum 100 Mbps download/20 Mbps upload), a dual‑monitor setup, and a VPN‑compatible laptop (macOS or Linux preferred). Company will provide a calibrated laptop, external SSD, and approved security software. - **Collaboration Platforms:** **Jira** for ticketing, **Confluence** for documentation, **GitHub** for source control, **PagerDuty** for on‑call alerts, and **Miro** for visual brainstorming. --- Growth - **Career Path:** Progress from Remote DevOps Engineer → Senior DevOps Engineer → Lead Platform Engineer → Manager, Infrastructure & Reliability. - **Mentorship:** Pairing with a senior SRE mentor for the first 6 months, followed by quarterly 1:1 coaching sessions. - **Learning Budget:** $3,000 per year plus company‑paid access to Pluralsight, A Cloud Guru, and O'Reilly. - **Performance Cycles:** Semi‑annual reviews with clear, measurable objectives (e.g., reduction in MTTR, automation coverage, cost savings). - **Leadership Opportunities:** Lead cross‑functional initiatives like “Zero‑Downtime Deployments” and represent the **Aurora**, **Colorado** team in quarterly executive briefings. --- How to Apply Please submit the following to our applicant portal: 1. Updated résumé highlighting relevant DevOps, SRE, and cloud experience. 2. A concise cover letter (max 300 words) explaining why you’re excited to work remotely from **Aurora**, **Colorado** and how your background aligns with the responsibilities above. 3. Optional: Links to GitHub repositories, Terraform modules, or any public infrastructure projects you’ve contributed to. • *Application Timeline:** - **Week 1:** Resume screening – we’ll acknowledge receipt within 48 hours. - **Week 2:** Technical phone screen (30 min) with a senior engineer. - **Week 3:** Live coding/architecture exercise (1 hour) and a culture interview with the hiring manager. - **Week 4:** Final interview panel (45 min) with the Director of SRE and a peer from the Platform Services team. We aim to make a hiring decision within **10 business days** after the final interview. • We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability.* We look forward to welcoming a passionate Remote DevOps Engineer who will help us push the boundaries of reliability and automation from the comfort of their home office in **Aurora**, **Colorado**. Join us and build the future of cloud‑native platforms—together.