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DevOps Manager
@Happyco
[Hiring] DevOps Manager @Happyco
Mar 21, 2025 - Happyco is hiring a remote DevOps Manager. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: Canada.
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Role Description
This role involves coordinating the development, management, and maintenance of our cloud environments, ensuring they are scalable, efficient, and well-optimized for our engineering teams.
- Oversee system performance and uptime
- Refine monitoring processes
- Enhance incident response to reduce downtime
- Uphold security and compliance standards
- Proactively address potential risks
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration
Core Responsibilities
- Infrastructure: Create and manage cloud infrastructure to support HappyCo software development teams. Improve the reliability, observability, and performance of these systems.
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Operations:
- Monitor the health and performance of production systems
- Improve monitoring tooling and effectiveness
- Respond to production events
- Document issues and incidents
- Drive down MTTA and MTTR
- Security/Compliance: Maintain a proactive posture keeping HappyCo ahead of security threats and vulnerabilities. Follow all required processes for security and compliance.
- Mentorship/Leadership: Identify, apply, and coach best practices across the team.
Week by Week / During your first 2-4 weeks you will:
- Get to know our leadership, culture, and values
- Complete our HappyCo orientation and onboarding program
- Onboard with the DevOps team
- Familiarize yourself with our systems and tools
- Read our favorite industry primers
- Attend your first Company Wide Meeting (monthly)
- Make your first change in our codebase
During your first 1-6 months you will:
- Get acquainted with the different departments
- Complete deployment and rollbacks in all of our environments
- Familiarize yourself with our on-call runbooks, processes, and policies
- Review our monitoring systems and tools to ensure levels are within reasonable parameters and adjust alerts accordingly
- Build a working profile of your team and prepare career development plans for them
- Be able to troubleshoot outages in any environment
During your first 6-12 months you will:
- Build tooling and automation for engineers to improve their velocity to develop, build, and deploy code
- Complete your first team feedback and manager upwards feedback cycle
- Identify key risks and opportunities to be included in the next 12 months of roadmap
What you could expect day-to-day
- Helping teams with build or cloud infrastructure queries
- Add to and deploy from our IaC build pipeline
- Assist with the investigation, management, and resolution of critical incidents
Qualifications
- Infrastructure as Code
- AWS / GCP Cloud Infrastructure and Architecture
- Kubernetes and containerization
- Build Pipeline, implementation and strategy
- Experience leading teams
Keys to optimum happiness at HappyCo
- Pushing forward in ambiguity while striving for clarity
- Prioritizing for sustained impact vs helping in the moment
- Empowering teams instead of enforcing standards
- Leveraging technology to serve humanity in a way that is accessible to all
- Be a proactive contributor to design and research team culture, with a strong growth mindset
- Experience and understanding of early-stage startups and the challenges they face
- Experience within the multifamily residential property industry
- Previous research experience in an Enterprise B2B SaaS context where you've tackled complex workflows and systems
Technologies Used
- Go
- Ruby on Rails
- Typescript / React
- Bazel
- GitLab
- Terraform
- Bash
- Kubernetes & Docker
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Devops / Sysadmin
Devops / Sysadmin
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Salary
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unspecified
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Remote
Location
Canada
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 21, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: Canada |
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