[Hiring] Senior DevOps Engineer @ClearGov

Role Description

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team. This role is responsible for driving the reliability, scalability, and security of our AWS cloud infrastructure while optimizing cloud costs and empowering developer self-service. You'll combine senior DevOps expertise with solution architect skill sets to:

• Design system architecture
• Provide innovative solutions for complex technical challenges
• Work closely with product engineering teams and engineering leads
• Streamline deployment pipelines
• Maintain robust observability
• Scale our SaaS platform efficiently

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering, ideally in a SaaS environment
• Demonstrated solution architecture experience designing highly available cloud systems
• Deep hands-on AWS expertise across architecture, security, networking, compute, storage, and cost management
• AWS certification is a plus
• Working familiarity with Azure and Google Cloud
• Practical experience with infrastructure-as-code, preferably Terraform
• Strong production-operations and observability experience with Datadog or equivalent tools
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or similar languages
• Solid understanding of security fundamentals
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Requirements

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure AWS infrastructure
• Implement and maintain cloud cost tagging, monitoring, and optimization practices
• Build and maintain observability using Datadog
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation
• Build tooling and paved paths for product engineers
• Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted tooling for infrastructure review and CI/CD improvements
• Provide technical evaluation and hands-on implementation input for cloud platforms
• Mentor other engineers on infrastructure, reliability, and DevOps best practices

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision insurance
• FSA, HSA, and/or Dependent Care FSA (US)
• Life + AD&D insurance, plus short-term and long-term disability insurance (US)
• Life + disability insurance (Canada)
• 401(k) (US) / RRSP (Canada) with 3.5% match
• 10 company holidays
• 3 wellness days
• Paid vacation time off
• Sick and safe time off
• Paid parental leave
• Paid bereavement leave
• Paid jury duty + civic service leave
• Employee assistance program
• 2 summer days + annual end-of-year "Dimming of the Lights"
• Employee referral bonus program