Senior DevOps Engineer
TechnologyYou'll design the platform that every developer deploys to, lead the Kubernetes migration nobody asked for but everyone needs, and be the person who actually understands the Terraform state file. You're senior enough to say 'no' to bad architecture — and experienced enough to explain why.
Salary Range
Low
$140k
Median
$162k
High
$185k
10-Year Growth
23%
US Workers
180K
Education
Bachelor's in CS + 6-10 years experience + AWS/Azure/GCP certifications
Environment
remote
Tools & Technical Skills
- ▸Kubernetes administration & cluster management
- ▸Advanced Terraform & Infrastructure as Code
- ▸CI/CD pipeline architecture (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
- ▸Cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP) at scale
- ▸SRE practices (SLOs, error budgets, incident response)
- ▸Monitoring & observability stack design
- ▸Service mesh & networking (Istio, Envoy, Consul)
People & Mindset Skills
- ▸Mentorship
- ▸Technical leadership
- ▸Cross-team communication
- ▸Strategic thinking
- ▸Incident management
- ▸Documentation discipline
- ▸Automation-first mindset
Learn the skills
Courses and certifications to get you job-ready
Kubernetes administration & cluster management
CI/CD pipeline architecture (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
Cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP) at scale
What you'll actually do
- 01Design and maintain the company's cloud infrastructure and platform
- 02Lead Kubernetes cluster management and container orchestration strategy
- 03Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for dozens of engineering teams
- 04Mentor junior DevOps engineers and review their infrastructure code
- 05Define SRE practices, SLOs, and incident response playbooks
- 06Debug infrastructure issues that somehow only happen in production
- 07Evaluate new tools and resist the urge to rewrite everything in Rust
Career Path
Where this role sits in the bigger picture — and where it can take you.
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