Senior DevOps – Infrastructure Lead

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🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $10M - $13M / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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RV LIFE

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2001

✈️ Travel

☁️ SaaS

👥 B2C

Travel • SaaS • B2C

RV LIFE is a consumer-focused company that provides digital tools, content, and a community for recreational vehicle (RV) travelers. Its core offerings include an RV-specific trip planner (Trip Wizard), RV-safe routing and turn-by-turn GPS navigation tailored to vehicle dimensions, a large user-generated campground and RV park directory, maintenance and vehicle record management (Garage), online courses (RV LIFE Masterclass), classifieds, and community forums and content. RV LIFE operates a mobile app with a free tier and a paid RV LIFE Pro subscription that bundles planning, navigation, campground research, and educational resources. The company emphasizes being a small, family-owned business serving the RVing community and positioning itself as an all-in-one platform for RV trip planning and lifestyle resources.

📋 Description

• Administer and improve existing DigitalOcean infrastructure. • Support and improve Linux-based production server environments. • Migrate self-managed databases onto managed database services, with validated failover, backups, and recovery. • Move applications onto managed runtimes (including Laravel Cloud where it fits), replacing manual deploy processes with automated, repeatable pipelines. • Expand and harden our use of Cloudflare for edge, static hosting, caching, and security. • Build a clear inventory of servers, services, databases, domains, access paths, backups, monitoring, and operational risks. • Create and maintain practical runbooks for common and emergency infrastructure workflows. • Improve incident response, escalation paths, monitoring, logging, and alerting. • Review and improve backup, restore, and disaster-recovery procedures. • Identify recurring manual work and convert it into safer procedures, scripts, automation, or infrastructure-as-code. • Help define infrastructure-as-code standards and move appropriate infrastructure into repeatable, version-controlled workflows. • Work with AWS services where needed (Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, S3, SSM/Secrets Manager, queues). • Use AI tools to accelerate discovery, documentation, scripting, troubleshooting, and automation, with strong production-safety judgment. • Partner with engineering leadership to prioritize infrastructure risk and modernization; track work clearly in Jira/GitHub and communicate proactively about risks, tradeoffs, and blockers.

🎯 Requirements

• Senior-level experience operating production infrastructure. • Deep, hands-on Linux server administration (the traditional, "old-school" kind): operating, securing, and troubleshooting manually managed production servers (LAMP/LEMP, system services, cron, networking, SSH) directly at the command line, not only through a cloud console. • Experience with DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS EC2, bare VPS hosting, or comparable environments. • Senior database operations: migrating self-managed MySQL to a managed service, replication, backup validation, restore testing, and IO isolation. • Strong Cloudflare across DNS, WAF, CDN and caching behavior, page rules, Workers, Pages, and Zero Trust/Access, including traffic routing and origin protection. • PHP/Laravel application environments, and experience with a managed Laravel runtime (Laravel Cloud and/or DigitalOcean App Platform). • Datadog or a comparable observability platform for monitoring, alerting, dashboards, logs, and incident investigation. • Infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CDK, Serverless Framework, or CloudFormation. • CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation. • Practical AWS experience (Lambda, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, S3, SSM/Secrets Manager, queues). • Good judgment around production safety, access control, secrets, backups, and incident response. • Willingness to carry real on-call responsibility and respond to production incidents outside normal business hours; this is not a strict 9-to-5 role. • A habit of documenting what you learn and creating runbooks others can follow. • Practical experience using AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar), with strong judgment about where human verification is required. • Ability to work independently in a small, remote engineering organization where practical ownership matters more than bureaucracy.