Senior DevOps Engineer

Scribe is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to architect, maintain, and scale critical infrastructure. The role focuses on system reliability, performance optimization, capacity planning, and deployment strategies across AWS and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and scale our AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure to suit our evolving requirements
• Build and maintain the Terraform modules the rest of engineering relies on for infrastructure changes
• Drive capacity planning and cost management across production systems
• Build observability into our services with Honeycomb, Sentry, and CloudWatch so issues surface before they become incidents
• Manage CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, shared composite actions, and reusable workflows
• Own networking, traffic routing, and security configuration, including load balancing, WAF, and DNS

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles
• Deep expertise with AWS services, particularly EKS, VPC, S3, and RDS/Aurora, and Well-Architected framework
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes internals, cluster administration, and multi-environment management
• Strong proficiency writing and maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform, including module development and state management
• Production experience with CNCF projects such as Helm for package management and Karpenter for node provisioning
• Proven experience developing and managing CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling including Honeycomb, Sentry, and AWS CloudWatch
• Deep expertise implementing zero-downtime deployment strategies with automated rollbacks
• Strong networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and traffic routing
• Experience managing async job processing systems and message queues at scale
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Go, Bash, or similar)
• Proven track record of capacity planning, performance optimization, and cost management initiatives
• Familiarity authoring AGENTS.md files and DNA scaffolding that encode our conventions and steer AI review bots
• Experience designing alerting strategies for production services with on-call runbooks
• Proficiency building dashboards and visualizations for real-time service health
• Background in database monitoring solutions for RDS Postgres
• Experience creating custom metrics and instrumentation for application-specific insights
• Hands-on experience with application profiling to identify performance bottlenecks
• Experience with Cloudflare WAF including origin shielding and firewall rule management
• Familiarity with Okta IdP integration and Single Sign-On (SSO) implementations
• Experience designing and implementing RBAC systems across AWS and Kubernetes