DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps Engineer at Lumos, your mission is to enhance and maintain our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, operational efficiency, and developer experience. You will work closely with development, security, and operations teams to drive automation, reliability, and scalability while ensuring high availability and security across all environments.

✨ Your Responsibilities

Infrastructure Automation & Reliability

• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) to ensure repeatability and scalability.

• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to proactively detect and resolve issues.

• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery mechanisms are in place.

CI/CD Pipeline Optimization

• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to accelerate software delivery.

• Automate deployment and rollback processes for minimal downtime.

• Enforce best practices for build, test, and release automation.

Performance & Cost Efficiency

• Optimize cloud resource utilization to balance performance and cost.

• Implement auto-scaling, load balancing, and caching strategies for improved efficiency.

• Continuously evaluate and recommend cost-effective infrastructure solutions.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Work closely with engineering teams to align DevOps strategies with business goals.

• Promote a culture of continuous improvement through automation and innovation.

• Provide mentorship and training to other engineers on DevOps best practices.

🙌 What We Value

• Technical Expertise:

  • Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

  • Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.).

  • Deep knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, etc.).

  • Knowledge with build optimization tools/frameworks (poetry, pants/bazel, docker, etc.).

  • Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, etc.) and defining SLOs.

• Software Development Expertise:

  • Strong bias towards software development with no fear of writing/contributing code to large codebases.

  • Comfortable reading, debugging and optimizing large codebases (Python experience preferred).

• Problem Solving & Troubleshooting:

  • Ability to diagnose and resolve infrastructure and performance issues.

  • Strong debugging skills across distributed systems and microservices architectures.

• Security & Compliance Awareness:

  • Understanding of security principles such as IAM, encryption, network security, and secrets management.

  • Familiarity with compliance frameworks and security tooling (e.g., Wiz, Vault, Falco, AWS Security Hub).

• Collaboration & Communication:

  • Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, security, and product teams.

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills to document and share knowledge effectively.

  • Experience in an agile development environment and ability to contribute to DevOps culture.

💰Pay Range

$160,000 - $190,000. Note that this range is a good faith estimate of likely pay for this role; upon hire, the pay may differ due to skill and/or level of experience.