Senior DevOps Engineer

🕒 May 18

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Spark Eighteen

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

B2B • SaaS

Spark Eighteen is a design-led digital product studio and engineering agency that builds web and mobile products focused on impeccable user experience. They offer product development, UI/UX design, website & app development, and digital marketing, working from concept to prototype and production for startups and businesses. Their portfolio includes SaaS and enterprise product work across healthcare and business process optimization, and they position themselves as a partner combining technology, creativity, and data to optimize digital presence.

📋 Description

• Lead and enhance cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes • Architect scalable, secure, and highly available systems • Drive continuous improvements across infrastructure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency • Take end-to-end ownership of deployment health, including SLOs and SLAs • Work closely with Development and QA teams to streamline release automation • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to architectural decision-making • Lead complex initiatives with minimal supervision • Propose innovative solutions aligned with business objectives

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field • 3–5 years of professional DevOps experience with demonstrated career progression • Advanced Linux administration and shell scripting expertise • Strong knowledge of Git workflows, including advanced branching and collaboration strategies • Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including Helm, StatefulSets, Horizontal Pod Autoscalers, and Network Policies • Advanced Terraform experience, including module development, remote backends, and workspace management • Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch • Advanced Docker usage with strong Kubernetes container optimization and deployment strategies • Proven expertise in building and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions • Advanced secrets management experience using AWS SSM and HashiCorp Vault • Strong experience in setting up logging and alerting systems using ELK Stack, Prometheus, and Alertmanager • Advanced cloud security implementation experience, including IAM roles, Key Management Service (KMS), and Web Application Firewall (WAF) • Hands-on experience with GitOps practices using tools such as ArgoCD and Flux • Strong performance tuning skills for infrastructure and containerized environments • Advanced observability practices covering metrics, logs, and distributed tracing • Ability to lead improvements to CI/CD systems and deployment pipelines • Experience designing and implementing resilient, secure, and scalable infrastructure solutions • Proven ability to proactively identify and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks and performance challenges • Experience owning deployment health, including managing SLOs and SLAs • Experience conducting infrastructure audits and driving cloud cost optimization initiatives • Strong understanding of high-availability architectures and robust rollback strategies • Proven ability to collaborate closely with Development and QA teams to improve release automation • Demonstrated experience mentoring mid-level and junior DevOps engineers and promoting best practices • Strong technical leadership skills with experience contributing to architectural decisions • Ability to lead complex project components with minimal supervision • Experience developing and executing risk mitigation strategies for infrastructure and deployment challenges • Ability to propose innovative technical solutions aligned with business goals • Excellent cross-functional communication skills with the ability to lead technical discussions • Strong mentorship and coaching capabilities for junior and mid-level team members • Strategic thinking skills with the ability to propose innovative and scalable solutions • Excellent documentation and knowledge transfer skills • Ability to align technical solutions with broader business strategy • Proactive problem-solving mindset focused on continuous improvement • Strong leadership skills to guide team performance and technical direction • Effective collaboration skills across engineering, QA, and business teams • Strategic approach to risk management and mitigation • Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments is a plus • Exposure to incident management processes and on-call responsibilities • Advanced scripting skills in Groovy, Python, or Go for CI/CD automation • Experience with infrastructure testing tools such as Terratest or Inspec • Advanced cloud cost analysis and optimization experience • Contributions to open-source projects or possession of advanced technical certifications

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive insurance coverage that gives you peace of mind, so you can focus on doing your best work • Flexible work arrangements designed to support sustained productivity, personal well-being, and work-life balance • Continuous learning and accelerated skill development through hands-on projects and mentorship from experienced industry leaders • Global client exposure across 20+ countries, offering real-world experience with diverse markets and business environments • Opportunity to work on high-impact, large-scale projects that have collectively generated over $1B in measurable business value • Competitive, market-aligned compensation packages that recognize performance, expertise, and long-term contribution • Monthly demo days that celebrate innovation, showcase your work, and give you a real voice in what we build • Annual recognition programs and performance-driven awards in a truly meritocratic environment • Referral bonuses that reward you for helping grow a strong, like-minded team • A strong problem-solving culture with opportunities to tackle meaningful, real-world challenges • A positive, people-first workplace that supports happiness, balance, and long-term growth