Remote Senior DevOps Engineer

Meet Slingshot

What You’ll Be Launching

This is a full-time, remote role for a Senior DevOps Engineer. The Senior DevOps Engineer will design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). They will manage continuous integration pipelines, support system administration tasks, and ensure optimal performance, availability, and security of Linux-based systems. Additionally, the individual will collaborate closely with software developers to enhance deployment workflows and drive improvements in the overall system architecture.

Were building a team of sharp, creative people who love solving hard problems. We value curiosity over ego, initiative over waiting for permission, and people who genuinely care about doing great work. Bring your expertise, your fresh ideas, and your drive—well bring the rocket fuel.

Your Mission (Should you choose to accept it)

Partner with offshore and onshore engineering teams to design, implement, and scale cloud-native infrastructure supporting a new customer portal and ongoing platform refactoring efforts

Architect, build, and maintain Kubernetes-based environments that power production systems, ensuring scalability, resilience, and security

Lead Infrastructure as Code initiatives (primarily Terraform) to automate provisioning, configuration, and environment consistency across AWS

Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment velocity, reliability, and developer experience

Integrate and operationalize MLOps practices, enabling efficient deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of machine learning workflows

Embed DevSecOps best practices across the platform, incorporating security controls, compliance requirements, and monitoring into the development lifecycle

Drive automation initiatives that reduce manual processes and increase system reliability and repeatability

Collaborate closely with Platform, Engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements, troubleshoot issues, and continuously improve system architecture

Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and proactively implement improvements to optimize availability and cost efficiency

Support incident response and root cause analysis efforts, driving long-term fixes and ensuring lessons learned translate into system improvements

Pre-flight Checklist

Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and practices, such as Terraform or CloudFormation

Experience with Software Development, including scripting and programming to support automation and management of DevOps workflows

Strong understanding of Continuous Integration and deployment pipelines

Expertise in System Administration, including network configuration and troubleshooting

Extensive experience with Linux systems, including performance optimization and security management

Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate across teams

Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes is a plus

Bonus Cargo

Experience with ML OPs

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience

Were building a constellation here, not looking for identical satellites. Every member of the team brings different capabilities to the same mission. If your orbit intersects with ours and youre mission-ready, send it.

Location:

Remote, US

Salary:

$136,000-$237,000

US-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following U.S. states: AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KS, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NV, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OR, RI, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, and WI. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other U.S. states at this time.

Internationally-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following locations: United Kingdom. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other countries at this time.

US-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following U.S. states: AL, AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV We are unable to consider candidates residing in other U.S. states at this time.

Internationally-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following locations: United Kingdom. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other countries at this time.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share a passion for creating a safer, more connected world. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also national origin, citizenship, sex, color, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic that is part of one’s identity. All of our employees’ points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality.