Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Remote (working hours: +10 hours ahead of EST)
Job Type: Full-Time
Experience Level: Senior
Language Requirement: Spanish proficiency is a plus
About the Role:
We are looking to add a Senior DevOps Engineer to our team. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of professional experience in an infrastructure or SecDevOps role. You will be responsible for automating, scaling, monitoring, optimizing, and securing modern cloud-native applications and infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work with engineers, customer support, and other internal stakeholders to maintain and enhance Traject Data’s services, focusing on operations, security, reliability, efficiency/automation, and cost optimization.
- Infrastructure and application monitoring: Develop and maintain insights into application and infrastructure performance, including metrics, logs, alarms, dashboards, and on-call rotation.
- Documentation: Write and maintain technical documentation, including runbooks and infrastructure diagrams.
- Process improvement: Provide insights and recommendations to improve our operations, processes, and products.
Requirements:
- Professional Experience: 5+ years of experience in infrastructure/SecDevOps roles.
- Automation Expertise: Expert-level experience in automating operations tasks such as deployments, CI/CD, and security updates using Bash, Docker, Ansible, and Terraform.
- Monitoring Expertise: Hands-on experience monitoring modern cloud applications at scale, using tools like Loki/Prometheus/Grafana, New Relic, AWS CloudWatch, and AWS CloudTrail.
- Cloud Security: Knowledge of cloud application security best practices, with bonus points for experience with compliance standards like SOC2.
- API Scaling: Strong experience in scaling APIs for data-intensive and network-intensive workloads.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Experience with modern cloud platforms (AWS or equivalent) and infrastructure as code.
- Agile Methodologies: Familiarity with agile processes and Scrum.
- Bonus: Experience with data extraction.
- Soft Skills: Ambitious, positive, and reliable. Able to balance pragmatism and perfectionism.
- Language: English proficiency required, Spanish proficiency is a plus.
- Work Equipment: Candidates must have their own equipment.
Our Tech Stack:
- DevOps Tools: Terraform, Bash, Ansible, Docker, GitHub
- Infrastructure: MongoDb, Redis, Snowflake, AWS (S3, Cognito, Lambda, Secret Manager), Digital Ocean VMs, Netlify, Cloudflare
- Monitoring Tools: Prometheus/Grafana/Loki, New Relic, Sentry, Logtail, AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudWatch
- Frameworks: Node.js, Express, React (Note: This role does not require application development experience)
Top Skills
What We Do
Tekton is a Technology Consultancy and Software Development company that builds products to improve people’s lives. To this day, Tekton has worked on more than 360 products with 200+ clients across 15+ industries. We strive to be at the forefront of technology, fostering innovation and creating meaningful experiences for users worldwide
