Senior Devops Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer (L3)

Minimum Experience Required: 6 years

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Spring, you are a strategic leader and technical expert responsible for designing, building, and scaling our infrastructure platforms and delivery systems. You help set the standard for reliability, observability, cost-efficiency, and velocity across engineering and play a critical role in enabling Spring to scale securely and sustainably.

You own cross-functional infrastructure initiatives that support new products, integrations, or compliance requirements. You contribute to the long-term evolution of Springs platform architecture and collaborate closely with engineering, product, and business leadership to ensure infrastructure decisions support strategic objectives. You mentor other engineers, lead technical design efforts, and serve as a go-to partner for high-risk or business-critical systems.

At this level, youre expected to deeply understand how Spring’s technical architecture supports our business. You know how key services interact across domains — from payment reconciliation to identity verification to customer communications. You anticipate and mitigate systemic risks, lead readiness reviews, and help shape platform roadmaps that balance scale, reliability, and speed.

security, IT, sysadmins, and network teams

What you’ll do:

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure.
• Own architecture and execution of high-impact platform initiatives (e.g., CD migration, zero-downtime deploys, logging architecture).
• Collaborate with Security, IT, and Infrastructure teams to define and implement org-wide access, audit, and reliability standards.
• Proactively identify technical debt, scalability concerns, and risk across multiple systems and services.
• Guide platform investments and architecture strategy in partnership with engineering and product leadership.
• Mentor engineers and set best practices in observability, incident response, and infrastructure evolution.

Requirements:

• Deep expertise in a major cloud provider, such as

  AWS

  , and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools

  like Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK

  .
• Extensive, hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as

  Docker, Kubernetes (

  and its variants like

  EKS), and Helm

  .
• Strong proficiency in a programming language like

  Python or Go

  for creating robust automation and tooling.
• Deep expertise in designing and managing CI/CD pipelines, with experience in modern practices like

  GitOps

  using tools such as

  ArgoCD

  or

  Flux

  .
• Expert-level knowledge of

  Linux/UNIX systems administration

  , version control

  (Git)

  , and internals.
• Advanced understanding of

  networking

  (VPC design, DNS, routing, service mesh) and

  cloud security

  (IAM, threat modeling, compliance automation).
• Deep understanding of

  observability, monitoring, and alerting

  using tools such as the

  Prometheus stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki)

  and/or commercial platforms

  like Datadog

  .
• Proven experience leading infrastructure strategy and operating high-availability production systems.
• Strong leadership, cross-functional influence, and a business-first mindset when making technical trade-offs.