[Hiring] Senior DevOps & Cloud/SRE @Stack Builders

Role Description

Are you passionate about reliability, automation, and cloud infrastructure? Stack Builders could be the place for you! We’re looking for a Senior DevOps & Cloud/SRE Engineer to build and optimize secure, scalable, and high-performing infrastructure for clients in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

• Work across small to medium-sized projects, usually two to three at a time.
• Strong context-switching skills are essential.
• Most workloads run on ECS and EC2 (with a few on Kubernetes).
• Solid Linux and database troubleshooting skills are key.
• Collaborate with development teams to diagnose bottlenecks and improve performance.

Join a team recognized as a Great Place to Work, solve meaningful engineering challenges alongside talented professionals worldwide, and help ensure our clients’ systems run smoothly and securely.

IMPORTANT: To be considered for this position, your application and CV must be in English.

If you’re passionate about this tech stack, you’ll love the work:

• AWS resources: ECS, EC2, RDS, ALB, R53, IAM, CW, S3
• Github Actions or Circle CI
• PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
• Terraform
• Ansible

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or a similar infrastructure-focused engineering role.
• Advanced spoken and written English skills.
• Experience with Linux environments and scripting (Bash, Python, Go, etc.).
• Strong Linux troubleshooting skills.
• Hands-on experience performing database changes and troubleshooting performance issues.
• Problem-solving skills, assertive communication, and a collaborative spirit.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Proven experience managing cloud environments (preferably AWS or GCP).
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, or GitLab CI.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or similar).
• Solid understanding of system security, networking concepts, and automation practices.

Requirements

• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, ECS, or other container-based solutions).

Responsibilities

• Solid ability to manage databases effectively, perform updates, and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks.
• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, ensuring stability through well-defined short-, mid-, and long-term solutions.
• Extensive experience with DevOps, CI/CD, and GitOps automation practices.
• Promote and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish and maintain robust monitoring, alerting, and logging systems.
• Implement and maintain security best practices, including secrets management, identity access control, and vulnerability scanning.
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks and production incidents to ensure system reliability and uptime.
• Advocate for automation, observability, and DevOps culture across client and internal projects.
• Continuously explore and recommend emerging technologies to enhance Stack Builders’ and clients’ operational excellence.

Benefits

• The projected hourly range for this position is $45.00 to $50.00, determined by the candidate's interview outcome, skills, experience, education, and alignment with market data.
• 100% remote work modality.
• A human-centered experience, as we’re a people-first company.
• Challenging, exciting, and long-term projects. We work with some of the most admired companies worldwide.
• A strong learning culture. You’ll have opportunities for 1:1 sessions with your manager.
• Regular pairing sessions. You’ll develop high-quality code while sharing knowledge with your team members.
• Opportunities for company-sponsored conference participation, OSS contributions, tutorials, blog posts, and technical talks.
• Exceptionally talented and passionate coworkers.
• Timely payments, with the flexibility to choose the payment date modality that best suits your needs.
• A Stack Builders community to support you and learn with you!