Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote - Salt Lake City, UT

Our client is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their Platform Engineering team in a fully remote capacity in Salt Lake City, UT. This is a full-time opportunity for a cloud-native infrastructure expert who thrives in high-growth, mission-driven environments. Are you passionate about building secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure that supports millions of users? Do you have deep experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD at scale, and reliability engineering? Are you excited about designing AI-ready platforms with strong security and compliance foundations? If yes, this may be the perfect Senior DevOps Engineer position for you. Keep scrolling to see what this company has to offer.

The Perks!

• Compensation: $150,000 - $200,000, based on experience
• 401k
• Health and Dental Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• $50/month for phone bill
• $100/month for a wellness benefit
• Meaningful work supporting regulated, mission-critical systems

A Day in the Life of the Senior DevOps Engineer

In this role, you’ll design, build, and scale a secure, compliant, multi-tenant cloud platform powering mission-critical government and healthcare systems. You’ll sit at the core of the Platform Engineering team, driving cloud infrastructure, DevOps automation, security enablement, AI platform support, and reliability engineering initiatives. Your work will directly impact how millions of Americans access critical food and health programs through a modern, government-grade SaaS platform.

Responsibilities include:

• Design and operate cloud-native infrastructure in AWS

• Build and maintain internal platform services for CI/CD, environment provisioning, secrets management, identity, observability, and configuration management

• Implement multi-tenant isolation patterns

• Architect and maintain high-availability systems

• Develop resilient deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, progressive delivery)

• Define and implement SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets

• Lead incident response efforts and build reliability playbooks

• Drive FinOps initiatives and cloud cost optimization

• Embed security-by-design across infrastructure and deployment pipelines

• Automate security scanning, IaC policy enforcement, and secrets rotation

• Support compliance frameworks including HIPAA, SOC 2, FedRAMP, and NIST

• Integrate security and GRC tooling into the platform ecosystem

• Manage Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, Helm, and GitOps

• Orchestrate Kubernetes-based systems

• Design secure network architectures and zero-trust patterns

• Implement and enhance observability stacks

• Support RAG pipelines and LLM infrastructure

Requirements and Qualifications:

• 4+ years of DevOps or Platform Engineering experience

• 3+ years of cloud-native architecture experience

• Deep hands-on experience with AWS

• RAG pipeline experience and LLM-supporting infrastructure knowledge

• Strong expertise in Kubernetes

• U.S. Citizen or valid U.S. work authorization and currently residing in the U.S.

• Experience working in regulated industries

About the Hiring Company:

Our client is a rapidly growing, mission-driven GovTech and HealthTech startup focused on making government the best-run organization in the world. Their platform helps states deliver critical programs like SNAP, WIC, and Medicaid Enrollment more efficiently, improving the experience for both citizens and administrators. With more than 5 million users and a top-ranked Health & Fitness app, the company is scaling quickly and doubling the number of states they serve.

Come Join Our Platform Engineering Team!

Start by filling out this 3-minute, mobile-friendly application here. We look forward to hearing from you!