Senior DevOps Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

$160,000 - $200,000/Yr

Gamechanger Media - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - New York, NY

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

GameChanger is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to enhance our cloud infrastructure. This role is pivotal in defining the patterns and practices for the evolution of our cloud infrastructure and containerized deployments. The successful candidate will be responsible for high-level design and architecture of Cloud and DevOps practices, alongside hands-on implementation and coding of cloud components, automation, and application updates. This position offers a unique opportunity to blend cloud infrastructure, software development, and operations expertise, impacting the entire organization as we grow our systems, teams, and processes. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be part of our cloud infrastructure team, collaborating closely with other engineers in Platform, Security, Data, and Software. Your mission will be to enable our customers and GameChanger engineering to efficiently deliver great products on a secure and reliable platform. You will establish and drive infrastructure best practices using industry-standard tools and frameworks to improve scalability, resiliency, cost-efficiency, and developer experience of our cloud platform. You will architect, design, and build major components of cloud infrastructure to enable secure, reliable, scalable, and easy use of cloud services on AWS. This includes hands-on building of cloud infrastructure and automation by writing software and infrastructure as code. You will work closely with Security Engineers to ensure our cloud environment follows security best practices and design systems for accurate cost reporting of cloud infrastructure. Additionally, you will build and maintain observability tools and alerts for our infrastructure and software, ensuring engineers receive quick feedback on their changes. Collaboration is key in this role, as you will work with product and platform engineering teams to understand roadmaps, influence architectural decisions, and ensure our infrastructure is set up for teams to self-serve as much as possible.

Responsibilities

• Establish and drive infrastructure best practices using industry-standard tools and frameworks to improve scalability, resiliency, cost-efficiency, and developer experience of our cloud platform.
• Architect, design, and build major components of cloud infrastructure to enable secure, reliable, scalable, and easy use of cloud services on AWS.
• Hands-on building of cloud infrastructure and automation by writing software and infrastructure as code.
• Work closely with Security Engineers to ensure our cloud environment follows security best practices, integrating and standing up tools and vendors as needed.
• Design and build systems and procedures to allow accurate cost reporting of cloud infrastructure and analyze solutions for possible cost efficiency.
• Build and maintain observability tools and alerts for our infrastructure and software so that engineers can quickly receive feedback on their changes.
• Collaborate with other DevOps/SRE/Security Engineers on projects in the DevOps space.
• Build relationships with product and platform engineering teams to understand roadmaps, influence architectural decisions, and ensure our infrastructure is set up for teams to self-serve as much as possible.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience to have developed software engineering fundamentals.
• Minimum of 3+ years of experience in a DevOps role or a similar position.
• Experience architecting and building cloud infrastructure with IaC such as Terraform.
• Deep knowledge of AWS services, patterns and best practices for resiliency, scalability, and security.
• Experience developing software, preferably with Python and TypeScript, but open to other languages.
• Experience working within DevOps, CI/CD, GitOps, and/or Agile methodologies.

Nice-to-haves

• AWS Certifications (not required but preferred).

Benefits

• Work remotely throughout the US or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.
• Unlimited vacation policy.
• Paid volunteer opportunities.
• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.
• Snack stipend - $60 monthly to have snacks shipped to your home office.
• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HRA, and coverage for family/dependents.
• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.
• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.
• Retirement savings - 401K plan offered through Vanguard, with a company match.
• Company paid access to a wellness platform to support mental, financial and physical wellbeing.
• Generous parental leave.
• DICK'S Sporting Goods Teammate Discount.