CI/CD & Developer Enablement — Build and maintain GitHub Actions pipelines that let platform and product teams ship fast and safely, with self-service tooling where it makes sense.
Networking, Ingress & DNS — Own ingress/egress (Traefik), service mesh and mTLS (Linkerd/Envoy), load balancing, edge TLS, and DNS (Route 53, Terraform-managed).
Observability & Reliability — Build observability with OpenTelemetry and SigNoz; use telemetry to drive reliability, performance, and cost decisions. Serve as an escalation point for complex incidents, leading troubleshooting and post-mortems.
Security & Compliance — Apply cloud security best practices across identity, secrets, and network boundaries, with particular care for student data and K-12 privacy. Operate posture/vulnerability tooling (Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, Snyk) and org guardrails (Control Tower, SCPs).
Ownership & Mentorship — Set standards, mentor engineers, and leave the platform better than you found it.
What You Need
5+ years operating large-scale cloud infrastructure (AWS strongly preferred)
Deep IaC experience (Terraform/OpenTofu; CloudFormation/Pulumi/CDK also relevant)
Strong Docker/Kubernetes (EKS) production experience
Scripting/automation proficiency (Python, Go, or Bash)
Solid cloud networking fundamentals (VPC, DNS, load balancing, ingress, firewalls/WAF, VPNs) and security best practices
Proven CI/CD and GitOps experience (GitHub Actions or similar)
Observability experience (metrics/logs/traces) used to drive real decisions
Track record leading infrastructure projects independently, end to end
Strong communication across technical and non-technical audiences
Nice to Have
ArgoCD, Atlantis, Linkerd/Envoy, Traefik, Karpenter, Helm
OpenTelemetry, SigNoz (our stack), Grafana, Datadog, or Prometheus
Backstage or other internal developer platform experience
AI/ML infra experience (GPU scheduling, model/agent hosting, inference gateways)
Rust service CI/CD, CloudFront/CDN experience
AWS Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer – Professional certification
Distributed-systems background, OSS infrastructure contributions
