Senior DevOps Engineer II (Developer Experience)

What You'll Do:

• Define and drive industry standards and best practices that your team and adjacent teams should follow when building systems and tools.
• Collaboratively develop and drive the evolution of our platform tooling systems through automated maintenance.
• Lead and facilitate technical discussions about our platform systems 
• Guide and mentor less-experienced team members (mid and junior-level).
• Deliver well-tested and well-documented software and infrastructure 
• Take a proactive approach to problem-solving (driving for measurable results, leading by example, etc).
• Collaborate and lead the planning of project milestones and help the team to break down large initiatives into iterative work items and drive ownership of task generation and ticket management.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across the entire organization.
• Participate in our on-call rotation and contribute to incident reviews
• Develop and perform the necessary testing required to maintain our quality standards.
• Deliver the technical project work against the expected milestones on time and within the expected scope
• Be an example of working with a sense of urgency to find solutions to problems quickly with an iterative approach.
• Ability to nimbly learn whereby they view mistakes as opportunities to learn, enjoy the challenge of unfamiliar tasks, and seek new approaches to solve problems.
• Collaborate through facilitating an open dialogue with a wide variety of contributors and stakeholders, balance own interests with others’ and promote high visibility of shared contributions to goals

What You Should Have:

• 7+ years experience as a DevOps Engineer or equivalent role
• Demonstrated mastery with Go, Javascript or similar languages (Go is preferred)
• Demonstrated mastery with container technologies such as Docker
• Demonstrated mastery with configuring and managing cloud environments in AWS
• Expert-level experience with maintaining and building CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Linux/Unix environments and scripting
• Demonstrated experience using Terraform or similar IaC technologies 
• Ability to lead the creation and completion of work items with little to no guidance
• Excellent ability to scope, estimate, and create work items from high-level initiatives and drive them to completion while helping the team to execute on their tasks
• A growth mindset and a deep passion for continuous learning
• Collaborate and lead the development of delightful experiences with a customer-first mindset where our customers are both our internal product engineers and the end users
• Expertly shares knowledge across teams to create a self-serving platform experience
• Expert-level experience writing, executing, and automating test cases for new feature development and ongoing maintenance activities
• Direct experience helping to create and use KPIs to drive observability, monitoring, and alerting to serve ourselves and our customers better
• Strong facilitation skills with experience being a mentor to those wanting to level-up their knowledge-base
• Demonstrates a focus on iterative development practices and incrementally delivering value over time.