At O.C. Tanner, we help companies around the world foster cultures where employees feel appreciated and inspired to do their best work. As a global leader in employee recognition, our solutions help people thrive at work, leading to more engaged teams, stronger organizations, and better business outcomes. We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to support our mission by ensuring the reliability and scalability of the technology that powers our employee recognition platforms.

Job Summary:
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for managing and enhancing our CI/CD pipelines, ensuring the robustness of our cloud-based systems on AWS, and supporting cross-functional teams with infrastructure automation. You will leverage your expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Golang, and observability to build and maintain scalable systems and provide operational support. This position will require some support outside of business hours and on-call rotation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to ensure rapid, reliable, and secure software deployment.
• Manage and improve cloud infrastructure using AWS and infrastructure-as-code tools such as AWS CDK.
• Build and maintain containerized environments with Kubernetes, ensuring scalability, resilience, and performance.
• Develop and maintain scripts, tools, and automation in Golang, Typescript and Java for infrastructure management and monitoring.
• Experience with other cloud platforms or tools like Terraform, Docker, etc.
• Improve system observability by integrating and optimizing logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve infrastructure and application issues, collaborating with development teams to ensure smooth and efficient delivery processes.
• Maintain and enhance security, availability, and performance of systems in production.
• Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to ensure best practices are followed in deployment, monitoring, and system architecture.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps or related engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and strong knowledge of GitHub Actions.
• Strong expertise with AWS cloud services and AWS CDK for infrastructure automation.
• Proficiency in Golang, Typescript for writing efficient scripts and automation.
• Experience with Kubernetes for orchestrating and managing containerized workloads.
• Solid understanding of observability tools and techniques (e.g., logging, monitoring, alerting).
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills, with experience resolving complex infrastructure and application issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work in cross-functional teams.

Bonus Skills:

• Any AWS or CKA certifications
• Proficiency with Data Technologies (Postgres, Elasticsearch)
• ActiveMQ, Kafka