Sr. DevOps Engineer

Company Description

A Place for Mom is the leading online resource connecting families searching for senior care with a team of expert advisors providing insight-driven, personalized solutions. As the nation’s largest senior care advisory service, A Place for Mom helps hundreds of thousands of families every year navigate the complexities of finding the right senior care solution for their loved ones across home care, independent living, memory care, assisted living, and more. Established in 2000 as a family business, A Place for Mom employees are deeply committed to the company mission to enable caregivers to make the best senior care decisions. A Place for Mom fosters, cultivates, and preserves a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Our employees live the company values every day:

• Mission Over Me: We find purpose in helping caregivers and their senior loved ones while approaching our work with empathy.
• Do Hard Things: We are energized by solving challenging problems and see it as an opportunity to grow.
• Drive Outcomes as a Team: We each own the outcome but can only achieve it as a team.
• Win The Right Way: We see organizational integrity as the foundation for how we operate.
• Embrace Change: We innovate and constantly evolve.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Sr. DevOps Engineer to join our team. This role will focus on enhancing our developer platform, building a robust delivery process, and ensuring systems are secure by default. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in platform engineering, inclusive of security, with a proven ability to drive improvements in delivery and performance

Key Responsibilities:

• Developer Platform:
  • Enhance and maintain the developer platform to support efficient and scalable software development.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to improve CI/CD pipelines, streamline development workflows, and optimize deployment processes.
  • Ensure that development tools and environments are up-to-date, reliable, and scalable.
• Security:
  • Implement and manage security practices to protect our systems and data from threats.
  • Conduct regular security assessments and vulnerability scans to identify and mitigate risks.
  • Collaborate with security teams to enforce security policies and ensure compliance by default.
• Collaboration and Leadership:
  • Lead with a product mindset, building tools that developers find intuitive and easy to use.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams to support and improve system reliability, performance, and security.
  • Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members.
  • Stay updated with industry trends and best practices, applying them to improve our systems and processes.

Qualifications

Technical Skills:

• Strong proficiency in DevOps tools and technologies, including CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools across application (DataDog, New Relic), infrastructure (Grafana, Prometheus), management (Splunk, ELK), and cloud (AWS CloudWatch)
• Strong understanding of security practices and tools, including vulnerability scanning and threat detection.

Experience:

• 5 years of experience in DevOps or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience in managing and optimizing large-scale systems and platforms.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and their security features.
• Additional Skills:
  • Ability to investigate complex issues to identify the root causes and impacts.
  • Able to communicate clearly with impact, articulating complex information and ideas to broad audiences.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

 Compensation

• Base Salary: $125,000 to $135,000 
• Bonus - 10% of annual earnings
• Benefits:
  • 401(k) plus match
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Paid Time Off

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Additional Information

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