Senior DevOps Engineer

[Applicants: Over 200 applicants | Industry: Non-profit Organizations | Type: Full-time | Level: Mid-Senior level] Senior DevOps EngineerOverviewWe are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with deep AWS expertise to help scale and optimize our infrastructure and deployment processes. This is not a basic infrastructure role — we need someone who can architect robust systems, drive automation, optimize cloud costs, and lead the organization toward zero-downtime deployments.A key focus of this role is improving engineering performance, with Lead Time to Change as the #1 delivery metric.Key ResponsibilitiesArchitect, implement, and manage production-grade AWS environments.Develop and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit)Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred).Implement deployment strategies that enable minimal to zero downtime.Drive cloud cost management and optimization initiatives.Build and enhance automated testing frameworks and QA automation within the CI/CD lifecycle.Improve reliability, scalability, observability, and system performance.Partner with engineering teams to reduce lead time to change and increase deployment frequency.Establish DevOps best practices across environments.Required Qualifications5+ years of DevOps or platform engineering experience.Strong hands-on AWS experience in production environments.Advanced experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, AWS CDK).Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred).Strong understanding of deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling deployments).Experience with automated testing frameworks and QA automation.Proven ability to optimize cloud costs and improve infrastructure efficiency.Strong understanding of reliability engineering and high-availability systems.Preferred QualificationsAWS Certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, etc.) — preferred but not required.Experience working with DORA metrics.Experience supporting high-growth or high-scale environments.What Success Looks LikeReduced lead time to change.Fully automated, reliable CI/CD pipelines.Minimal or zero downtime during deployments.Cost-efficient and scalable AWS infrastructure.Increased deployment frequency with high system reliability.