What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior DevOps Engineer position at Wild Alaskan Company?
What You'll Do
Reporting to the Director of Software Architecture, this role within the Engineering team will build and maintain our custom e-commerce platform, ensuring we remain a market leader in the wild seafood fulfillment industry. This role is crucial to optimizing our infrastructure, improving developer workflows, and ensuring the security and reliability of our systems.
Your Day-to-Day
- Manage and optimize hosting for our web properties.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborate with developers to enhance workflow efficiency and system reliability.
- Implement redundancy processes for business-critical systems.
- Establish continuity plans to mitigate outages and ensure smooth operations.
- Monitor critical systems, proactively addressing potential issues.
- Maintain and apply security updates to core systems.
- Regularly audit hosting environments for cloud cost optimizations.
- Support the data team and developers in maintaining customer privacy and compliance.
What You Bring
- Expertise in AWS services (ELB, VPC, RDS, EC2, Elasticache).
- Experience with AWS ECS or similar container orchestration services.
- Strong knowledge of Docker (building and maintaining images from scratch).
- Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure as code.
- Experience supporting testing automation frameworks like Playwright.
- Familiarity with GitHub Actions for CI/CD.
- Coding experience in Go, and Bash.
- In-depth understanding of Linux operating systems.
- Familiarity with the PHP ecosystem.
- Strong process management and documentation skills.
- Experience with database replication and business continuity best practices.
If you're passionate about DevOps, automation, and building reliable infrastructure, we’d love to hear from you!
Location
100% remote with occasional travel for in-person team and companywide retreats.
The starting salary range for this position is $130,000 - $160,000, commensurate with skills and experience. Wild Alaskan’s benefits package includes health, vision, and dental insurance, 401k, PTO, safe/sick time, vacation, parental leave and more, as well as a delicious box of free fish every month.
Salary : $130,000 - $160,000
