Staff DevOps Engineer – Platform Operations

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October 6

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Where creativity meets impact, we partner with brands, organizations, and innovators to create bold, transformative, and purposeful work.

2 - 10 employees

📋 Description

• Continuously improving automation and tooling to streamline deployment processes and increase efficiency and self-service functionality • Supporting a positive and proactive culture of collaboration across Kin • Utilizing your understanding of AWS services and working with peers to optimize infrastructure performance, scalability, resilience, and cost-efficiency • Designing and implementing solutions to ensure system changes continuously adhere to regulatory compliance and support Kin’s security posture • Respond to issues, incidents and problems in real time • Working with engineers to build their understanding and skills for good citizenship of their infrastructure and pipelines • Diving deep with internal stakeholders to make sure our infrastructure and development platform are mutually beneficial to our application and data architecture • Implementing, monitoring, logging, and alerting in Datadog to ensure high availability and performance of our systems • Collaborating with IT and Security on RBAC • Mentoring and supporting teammates • Updating documentation • Staying up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive experience in DevOps or related roles, with a strong focus on CI/CD automation and infrastructure management • Strong communication and collaboration skills, including thoughtful pushback • Proven success mentoring engineers • Demonstrated success in creating compliant, self-service delivery pipelines • Proficiency in GitHub Workflows and Actions for orchestrating CI/CD pipelines • Strong skills with Terraform/OpenTofu for infrastructure as code (IaC) development • Deep knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, ECS, ECR, S3, RDS, Redis, Lambda, and IAM • Strong shell scripting skills, Docker, and YAML • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while finding ways to preempt firedrills • A fast learner, ready to bring previous knowledge to this position and continue developing along the way

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and company equity through Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), granted as part of our standard compensation package and based on role and level. • 401K with company match of up to 4% of eligible earnings • Flexible PTO for exempt employees (employees typically take 15-20 days annually), along with 8 company-observed holidays • A paid parental leave program that provides 100% salary continuation of up to 14 weeks for birthing parents and 8 weeks for non birthing parents • Continuing education and professional development opportunities