The Role
The Senior DevOps Engineer will lead and optimize Tenna's cloud infrastructure, automate processes, and mentor engineering teams to improve delivery and performance.
Summary Generated by Built In
Why Tenna?
We take pride that our roots are in the construction industry. With this experience and knowledge, we have built a platform that revolutionizes construction equipment fleet operations. We provide innovative solutions to customers looking for competitive ways to better manage and track their assets, such as heavy and light equipment, large fleets, tools, and materials.
At Tenna, we believe the best is right in front of all of us and that each day holds more potential than the one before. We believe that every new discovery can lead to something better than we thought possible. When we boil it down, the top five qualities that define the Tenna Team are quality-obsessed, gritty, continuous learners, collaborative problem solvers, and just plain awesome. Sound like you? Join us as we empower our customers to control their mixed assets on one comprehensive platform anytime, anywhere.
Position Description
We are searching for a Lead DevOps Engineer with deep technical expertise and a strategic mindset to lead the evolution of Tenna’s cloud infrastructure. In this high-impact role, you will help shape our DevOps practices, drive innovation across systems architecture, and enable the Engineering Team to deliver highly available, secure, and scalable services. As a senior member of the Engineering organization, you will be hands-on in developing automation solutions, optimizing performance and cost efficiency, and mentoring the team on modern DevOps best practices. This role requires a strong foundation in infrastructure as code, cloud-native technologies, and continuous delivery pipelines. Sounds like you? Apply now!
Responsibilities
- Design scalable, redundant, cost-effective, and fault-tolerant infrastructure for our production systems.
- Proactively manage infrastructure costs and make optimization recommendations.
- Help migrate existing applications into Kubernetes and support container orchestration strategies.
- Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines and operational tooling to support rapid development and deployment cycles.
- Write high-quality JavaScript code and Bash scripts to automate infrastructure processes and troubleshoot issues.
- Design, build, and maintain systems and tools to automate operational processes and enhance developer productivity.
- Develop comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems to increase visibility across environments.
- Automate incident response where appropriate and ensure quick recovery from system issues.
- Understand, implement, and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation.
- Work closely with Engineering, QA, and Product teams to troubleshoot issues and develop creative solutions.
- Educate development teams to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks, single points of failure, and scaling constraints.
- Stays up to date on relevant technologies, trends, and opportunities to ensure we always use leading techniques and tools appropriate for the company.
- Actively participate in planning meetings and collaborate with the team to identify and implement the best technical solution for the company.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience with at least one of the following programming languages: JavaScript, Node.js, Golang, Python, or C#.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience configuring and managing AWS environments.
- 5+ years of experience with Linux systems, including administration, operations, and networking.
- Extensive experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
- Strong experience managing distributed messaging systems, preferably RabbitMQ.
- Deep experience supporting and optimizing both SQL and NoSQL databases, ideally PostgreSQL and DynamoDB.
- Experience deploying, managing, and scaling microservices in production environments, preferably using Node.js.
- Experience with build automation tools, preferably GitHub Actions.
- Experience with configuration management and workflow automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform.
- Strong understanding of security best practices, DevSecOps principles, and compliance automation.
- Hands-on experience in performance tuning, capacity planning, and cost optimization at the infrastructure level.
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent is required.
- Experience in monitoring and supporting highly available, large-scale web applications in production is a plus.
- Experience with Redis and Elasticsearch is a plus.
- Exposure to IoT platforms or experience supporting infrastructure for connected devices is a huge plus.
- Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux is a plus.
What you need to know:
- Full-time opportunity.
- Location: Fully remote - nationwide.
- Opportunities for growth and personal development within a highly dynamic team.
- Robust, low-cost benefit packages offered.
- Benefit coverage begins on the first date of employment.
- Paid Time Off and Volunteer Time Off offered.
- 401k match.
- Dependent Care offered.
- Employee referral bonuses.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Tenna is committed to building a diverse team. We welcome different perspectives and opinions to foster innovation, authenticity, and excellence across all parts of our company, and are committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
Top Skills
Ansible
Argocd
AWS
C#
Docker
DynamoDB
Elasticsearch
Flux
Github Actions
Go
JavaScript
Kubernetes
Node.js
Postgres
Puppet
Python
RabbitMQ
Redis
Terraform
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The Company
What We Do
Tenna is the construction technology platform that revolutionizes equipment fleet operations. We are the standard for the construction industry. Going beyond tracking, Tenna blends cutting-edge technology with more than 100 years of construction experience to help companies know more, control more and make more.
Tenna lets contractors know more with reliable tracking and a unified platform for mixed fleets. Tenna lets contractors control more with visibility from the machine level to the project, all the way up to the whole company. The result is that construction businesses make more money with better own, move, buy/rent decisions, higher utilization and more predictable days.
From heavy yellow iron and associated parts and attachment, to mid-sized equipment, to heavy trucks and fleet vehicles, down to small assets, tools, materials and consumable inventory, Tenna is a construction-focused total equipment management solution for contractors that own, operate and maintain a construction equipment fleet.
