Sr Devops Engineer (Direct Hire)

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• EXPERIENCE: 10+ years
• HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $140k – $170k /yr
• LOCATION: Remote-United States and Canada only (TimeZone: PST/CIST | Full day overlap)
• ESTIMATED DURATION: 40h/week - Long term
• BRAINTRUST JOB ID: 8068
• JOB TYPE: Employee, Direct Hire Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)

THE OPPORTUNITY
Requirements
US/Canada West Coast
Total compensation includes base salary + generous equity package. Final compensation based on experience and qualifications.
Company Overview
What you’ll be working on
VersusGame is a prediction game where you get paid for being right. We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help design, build, and operate cross-platform web and mobile applications. You will be working with an experienced global cross-functional team to build and launch awesome user experiences for the players as well as the creators hosting the games.
We are looking for engineers with a strong acumen for producing and operating high performance APIs running on Kubernetes in AWS. Experience with CI/CD on Gitlab, Terraform and application monitoring with Datadog is a big plus!
What you’ll get to do:

• Work directly with our engineering team as the lead on best practices for deploying, developing and scaling our entire technology stack
• A deploy anywhere infrastructure that ‘just works’ and is highly available and repeatable
• Work side by side with a multi-disciplinary, diverse team to make meaningful decisions together
• Rapidly prototype new technologies do demonstrate how they can be applied to our problem sets and help guide future technology choices
• Lead the development of our next-generation data infrastructure to support complex real-time data pipelines, machine learning workflows, large scale mobile and web applications
• Understand business goals behind every feature creating solutions that launch amazing customer experience
• Be lean in how you operate, always improving, always aligned to the bigger picture
• Design, build and continuously optimize the technology stack (cloud, monitoring, CI/CD, paging etc.) powering a best-in-class customer experience
• Develop broad business skills and experiences
• Become obsessed with the customer and the relevant user journey data that informs strategy for the business as a whole
• Develop our testing infrastructure for load, stress, and performance testing
• Configuration management, containerization, and management of our full stack of mobile applications, web applications, data infrastructure, machine learning infrastructure
• Build secure, performant, scalable Infrastructure for the rapid release of high-quality software

What you bring to the table:

• Strong Knowledge of GPU infrastructures for accelerated computations
• A nimble approach to thinking strategically while rolling up your sleeves and getting great work done
• Working knowledge of security best practices, specifically related to PII
• 4+ years of experience with Node.js, TypeScript and NestJS.
• Experience with designing serverless API architectures with an emphasis on scalability, performance, security, and extensibility
• Strong Knowledge of Networking both on prem and in the cloud and on containers
• Excellent communication skills and take pride in your ability to communicate and distill complex topics into succinct explanations.
• Strong experience working with Kubernetes
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and clustered computing
• Strong Knowledge of containers/serverless management/configuration management at scale
• 5+ years of experience with PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
• Previous experience leading the development of core infrastructure
• Experience developing complex applications in an agile environment as part of a multi-disciplinary, diverse team of engineers, designers, product experts, marketers and strategists
• 8+ years of DevOps experience - or relevant experience (as backend engineer, liveops engineer, etc.)
• An understanding of platform, application and data security
• A deep understanding of Authentication and Authorization (ideally; OIDC, oAuth2, Auth0)
• You are willing to take responsibility for you work and have a heightened sense of ownership
• Strong experience working with Terraform
• Experience with modern web application development, including build tools, testing and CI/CD (ideally: GitHub Actions)
• Minimum 5 years experience working on complex infrastructure in a large scale setting
• You are great in ambiguous situations and prefer it to be that way
• Strong Knowledge of Complex job and workflow management technologies
• Excitement, energy, and strong people skills including excellent communication capabilities
• You iterate quickly, believe in constant and consistent improvement, and continuous learning.
• Experience with MLOps or experience in machine learning is a major bonus
• Experience in a startup or venture-like operating model preferred
• Strong knowledge of Linux System Design, MacOS, iOS architectures
• Strong experience working with AWS cloud platforms - 5+ years minimum

Apply Now!
C2C Candidates: This role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.
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