Senior DevOps Engineer Build Environment Manager
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Job Location:
Arlington, TX - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
21 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps Americas boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our countrysbiggest problems from education to the economy broken communities and toxic division among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding thought leadership a network of peers and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society.
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Lead Engineer to lead and evolve the DevOps function for the Be The People digital ecosystem a suite of highly visible public-facing applications. This is a senior individual contributor role with strong technical leadership expectations responsible for environments CI/CD pipelines release readiness and operational guardrails.
This role operates with a high degree of autonomy and judgment balancing delivery velocity with reliability security and long-term maintainability. You will collaborate with software engineers data engineers architects cloud engineers and product stakeholders to tackle some of societys most pressing challenges.
How You Will Contribute
DevOps & Platform Ownership
- Lead the DevOps function end-to-end for Be The People and contribute to how applications are assembled tested released and operated
- Lead creation and lifecycle management of environments including spinning up new environments and coordinating content and data seeding
- Contribute to the design and evolution of platform architecture with an emphasis on scalability resilience and cost efficiency
- Establish cloud standards and manage cloud operations in cooperation with Cloud Engineering.
CI/CD & Automation
- Design implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions as the primary orchestrator
- Establish reusable workflow templates and best practices without introducing unnecessary complexity
- Apply Infrastructure-as-Code discipline including versioning promotion across environments and drift prevention using tools such as Terraform Terragrunt CDK Ansible or CloudFormation
- Develop and debug Python Ansible Playbooks Terraform and other infrastructure-as-code tooling
Release Readiness & Operational Guardrails
- Own or steward the release management function acting as a go/no-go checkpoint to ensure required testing has occurred stakeholder sign-offs are complete and risks are clearly surfaced
- Participate in production incident response root-cause analysis and post-incident learning
- Construct a resilient ecosystem capable of quickly restoring services and participate in developing the disaster recovery playbook for Be The People
Observability Reliability & Security
- Implement monitoring alerting and observability for production systems using tools such as Prometheus Grafana Nagios or ELK Stack
- Participate in the development implementation and automation of security policies
- Apply baseline security best practices across infrastructure and pipelines
- Apply SRE-inspired practices such as defining SLIs/SLOs and designing systems operable by teams beyond DevOps
Cloud CDN & Infrastructure
- Deeply understand CDN configuration (e.g. Cloudflare) including caching layers and their impact on testing and production behavior
- Be competent in DNS concepts and troubleshooting even if DNS ownership resides elsewhere
- Optimize cloud infrastructure (AWS primary; familiarity with Azure and GCP a plus) for performance reliability and cost
- Provide architectural guidance and design recommendations for cloud assets resource consolidation and standardized practices
Testing & Quality Enablement
- Help shape test automation strategy recognizing AI-assisted testing and organizational QA maturity constraints
- Ensure testing happens and is validated rather than personally writing all tests
- Partner with the testing team on test automation test tracking and incorporate into the release process
- Embed quality checks as first-class controls in delivery pipelines
Technical Leadership & Collaboration
- Serve as a technical leader who leads through influence rather than authority
- Collaborate cross-functionally with application infrastructure and data teams
- Participate in technical screening and interview panels including short high-signal technical screens
- Coach and mentor engineers on cloud and DevOps best practices raising overall DevOps maturity
- Create and maintain durable documentation including environment definitions deployment processes and runbooks
What You Will Bring
Experience
- 10 years of relevant DevOps and Cloud Engineering experience this is a senior-level role not suitable for junior or mid-level candidates
- Proven experience operating production systems with real customer and business impact
- Minimum 5 years of professional Cloud Engineering background with deep AWS expertise
Technical Skills
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions (primary) plus experience with CircleCI Jenkins Bamboo or AWS CodePipeline
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform AWS CDK Serverless Stack (SST) Ansible Playbooks or CloudFormation
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker Docker Swarm Kubernetes Rancher
- Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2 RDS DynamoDB DocumentDB Lambda SQS SNS ECS ECR Elastic Load Balancers S3 Amplify CodeBuild); familiarity with Azure Google Cloud and Acquia
- CDN & Networking: Cloudflare; understanding of DNS Custom TCP SSH HTTPS UDP VPNs Load Balancing and Firewalls
- Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus Grafana Nagios ELK Stack or Graylog
- Databases: DocumentDB / MongoDB (operational context); SQL background advantageous
- Security: Secure SDLC concepts including secrets management scanning and least-privilege access
- Languages: Python PowerShell JavaScript or Java (for Lambda and scripting)
- Version Control: Git and GitHub
- Configuration Management: Ansible Chef or Puppet
- Project Management Sprint Planning & Release Planning: Jira and Confluence
Leadership & Soft Skills
- Strong judgment and ownership comfortable saying no or not yet when appropriate
- Formal people-management experience is not required; demonstrated technical leadership through influence is expected
- Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders around risk and tradeoffs
- Comfortable with command-line tools and the Linux/Unix environment
- Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Togethers vision and principled approach to solving problems and a commitment to stewarding our culture which champions values including transformation and innovation entrepreneurialism humility and respect.
What Success Looks Like
- Releases are predictable governed process driven and low-drama
- CI/CD pipelines are reliable understandable and trusted by engineering teams
- Systems are scalable observable and operable by the broader organization
- DevOps acts as an enabler with intentional guardrails not a bottleneck
- The platform and practices are positioned to scale with future organizational growth
Standout Candidates Will Bring
- AWS or Azure certifications (Certified Developer DevOps Engineer Solutions Architect Data Analytics or Database)
- Experience with regulated or compliance-sensitive environments
- Exposure to multi-product or platform organizations
- Experience modernizing legacy delivery practices
- Background in building and deploying web applications from source code
- DevSecOps experience including code analysis vulnerability management regulatory compliance security policy monitoring to help build a security-aware culture
What We Offer
- Competitive benefits: Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting flexible time off comprehensive health and dental plans plus wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace.
- A meaningful career: Join a passionate community of over 1300 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges.
- Commitment to growth: Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover develop and apply their unique talents.
- Competitive compensation: Our approach rewards the value you create through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities allowing you to share in the success you help drive.
Our Values:Working for an organization within the Stand Together philanthropic community is different from many other places. The culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management (PBM) a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress such as dignity openness and bottom-up empowerment. PBM empowers employees to be entrepreneurial to innovate and to continually drive transformation.
We believe diversity fuels creativity broadens knowledge and helps drive success. That is why were proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty dignity and respect.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
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About Company
Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems.
