Senior DevOps Engineer, Grover

• Experience: 3-6 years of hands-on experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or infrastructure-focused role
• Cloud Expertise: Solid understanding and hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, IAM, VPC, S3, RDS, EKS). In-depth experience with AWS and cloud architecture
• Containerization & Orchestration: Proven experience with Docker and Kubernetes in a production environment. Hands-on experience in managing Kubernetes is a strong plus
• Infrastructure as Code: Good experience with Terraform for managing infrastructure
• CI/CD: Strong proficiency with Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration principles and modern DevOps tooling
• Databases: Excellent knowledge and experience in managing and monitoring relational databases, especially PostgreSQL
• Programming and Scripting: Good knowledge of Bash and at least one programming language like Python or Go
• Monitoring Stacks: Comfortable with monitoring and observability stacks (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Distributed Systems: Experience in a distributed systems environment, particularly with Kafka, is a plus
• GitOps: Familiarity with GitOps principles and experience using tools like ArgoCD
• On-Call Readiness: Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and handle incident response professionally
• Soft Skills: Assertive communication skills for effective collaboration across teams/departments. Strong problem-solving abilities and a proactive attitude

Desirable

• As a mid-senior level DevOps Engineer at Grover, you will play a crucial role in enhancing our infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• You'll contribute to ensuring the stability, security, and efficiency of our systems while empowering developer velocity through infrastructure automation and robust CI/CD practices.
• You'll play a crucial role in scaling our engineering department and enhancing system performance, continually optimizing our infrastructure using data from enhanced monitoring platforms
• Infrastructure Management: Build, maintain, and continuously improve our highly demanding, Kubernetes-based infrastructure on AWS
• Infrastructure as Code: Manage our infrastructure using Terraform to ensure repeatable, auditable, and scalable environments
• GitOps Implementation: Implement and maintain GitOps workflows, leveraging tools like ArgoCD for declarative deployments
• Database Operations: Operate, scale, and monitor PostgreSQL databases in a production environment
• Monitoring & Observability: Set up, manage, and optimize monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling using solutions like Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana, and related technologies
• Security & Access Management: Manage secrets and secure access to infrastructure, with experience in tools like HashiCorp Vault and Boundary being a plus
• CI/CD Pipeline Development: Develop, maintain, and improve robust CI/CD pipelines that facilitate fast, reliable, and automated software delivery. Facilitate distributed ownership of CI/CD pipelines across engineering teams
• Troubleshooting & Optimization: Be able to troubleshoot complex errors in applications across the Cloud Platform, identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks, race conditions, and other system issues
• Collaboration: Communicate and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams across their development lifecycle