Position: Senior DevOps Engineer
Company: The Mom Project
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

The Mom Project is a Chicago-based product company and a digital talent marketplace for 650,000+ mothers.

We started to extend our global presence and look for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our core engineering team and help us scale.

The Mom Project (TMP) is excited to find a motivated DevOps Engineer passionate about building a stable and scalable product. As a member of the DevOps team, you’ll be responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and maintenance of the cloud infrastructure (AWS) used by our applications. Our goal is to develop and support the systems and automations that drive our business-critical platform, ensuring high uptime and quality deployments, while maintaining operational flexibility.

**What you will be doing**:

▢ Develop reusable and extensible Terraform modules to enable developers to independently create their own infrastructure
▢ Partner with the Security team to ensure best practices and create developer guardrails 
▢ Support internal development teams
Automate and improve the development process
▢ Test and validate functionality of DevOps code and scripts
▢ Review and examine code and scripts written by others
▢ Identify technical problems and develop potential solutions

**What you should have**:

▢ 5+ years of experience using AWS cloud-based infrastructure
▢ A strong foundation in security from a software, systems, and network standpoint
▢ Experienced the tradeoffs in various solutions to common software platform problems, with specific acumen for performance and security
▢ Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines
▢ Automation skills
▢ Regularly led and collaborated with cross-functional teams of engineers organized around a particular goal
▢ Problem-solving and collaborative attitude
▢ Humility and a desire to take input and learn from anyone on the team
▢ (Nice to have) Scripting experience

We’re especially excited about candidates who have experience working with some of the following technologies/practices:

▢ Docker
▢ Docker Compose
▢ Terraform
▢ AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)
▢ EC2/Fargate
▢ Kubernetes
▢ Helm
▢ Istio
▢ Monitoring and observability solutions (Grafana, Prometheus, Cloudwatch, etc)
▢ Linux and Sys Admin experience
▢ GitHub/GitHub Actions
▢ ELB/ALB
▢ RDS/Redshift
▢ Autoscaling
▢ Security Groups and IAM
▢ AWS Lambda Functions
▢ VPC and multi-account management
▢ Infrastructure as Code
▢ GitOps
▢ Service Mesh

Bonus (optional) experience:

▢ Kustomize
▢ Argo CD
▢ Argo Rollout
▢ cert-manager
▢ Grafana Lab
▢ Grafana Loki