Senior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

Kforce has a client in Los Angeles, CA that is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their agile development team, focusing on service delivery, reliability, scalability, and infrastructure-as-code. This company values individuals who can create and maintain infrastructure through code, automating repetitive tasks, and providing tools for seamless operations. The tech stack includes Go, React, React Native, MySQL, Redis, and Algolia, deployed on AWS using ECS. This role offers an opportunity to drive change, growth, and maturity in a dynamic, fast-paced, and expanding department. This role is onsite 4 days a week in LA.

Responsibilities:

1. Implement automation, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code
2. Develop and enhance CI/CD processes for new and existing services
3. Improve alerting and escalation mechanisms
4. Strengthen application and environment security, applying standards and best practices
5. Iterate on best practices to enhance deployment quality and velocity
6. Focus on high availability and scalability to increase system performance
7. Propose, scope, design, and implement various infrastructure architectures

What We Offer

1. Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
2. Short-term/long-term disability and life insurance
3. Paid Parental leave
4. 401k with 4% match
5. Pet Insurance
6. Legal and Identity Theft Plans
7. Vacation time and sick days

Requirements:

1. Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS or equivalent practical experience
2. 5+ years of relevant experience
3. 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience in consumer software
4. 4+ years of experience with AWS (EKS, RDS, AWS Aurora, Lambdas, Autoscaling, load balancers, VPC setting, etc.)
5. AWS expertise (IAM, EC2, VPC, NLB, Autoscaling)
6. Proficient in scripting (Bash, Python) for task automation
7. Practical experience with Docker and clustering (ECS/Kubernetes)
8. Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
9. Microservices experience with a strong grasp of 12-factor principles
10. Comfortable with emerging technologies and assessing technological risks
11. Goal-oriented with attention to detail
12. Effective communication skills for educating others on provided tools/services
13. Strong Terraform skills
14. Kubernetes expertise, including setting up, migrating, and upgrading clusters
15. Database experience, handling large loads, scaling, and potential migration (RDS to Aurora)
16. Linux knowledge
17. Bash and Python scripting expertise
18. Experience with Observability and logging
19. CICD tools: Jenkins, Github Action experience
20. Monitoring tools: DataDog, Grafana/Prometheus experience
21. Docker application experience
22. Configuration Management (any): Ansible, Chef/Puppet experience
23. Secrets Management experience - AWS Secrets Management, any vault
24. Understanding of SRE/DevOps team dynamics and size
25. Familiarity with GO, NodeJS/React apps is a plus
26. Retail/E-commerce experience is a plus
27. Golang development experience is a plus

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Salary: $150,000 - $165,000 per year