Senior DevOps Engineer

Our first Senior DevOps Engineer will establish a fully automated and transparent code propagation pipeline through all our lower-tier environments. You’ll optimize our infrastructure for performance and scalability, ensuring smooth operations as the company grows. Observability will become a core part of the engineering process, delivering real-time system insights. 

You’ll develop a resiliency strategy that will help ensure a robust future state. By the end of the twelve months, the foundation for high-performance, scalable, and resilient operations will be in place. 

If our role sounds exciting & if making a meaningful impact in the world matters to you - apply to Instil.io today!  

• Work collaboratively with several engineering teams to mature our DevOps practices 
• Ensure our infrastructure optimized for performance and scalability
• Increase observability across our entire engineering process
• Create a stabilized, transparent, and automated code propagation pipeline through lower tier environments
• Develop a resiliency strategy that takes us from our current to our future state

• About 7+ years of DevOps/CloudOps Engineering experience, ideally within a SaaS
• Successful experience with AWS tools like: IAM, Route53, Systems Manager, ECS, S3, SNS, SQS, Lambda, Aurora, DynamoDB
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker as well as tools like GitHub Actions, Jira, and Datadog
• A keen understanding of cloud platforms, IaC, CI/CD, containerization, scripting, networking, monitoring and observability, and security
• Experience collaborating with a variety of teams to get things done
• Comfortable with a fast-paced ever-changing startup environment
• Experienced creating consensus around technical decisions and vision
• A playbook on the art and science of change management

• Strong understanding of the nonprofit sector is a plus

• Opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the world
• Remote first work culture 
• Flexible vacation time 
• Collaborative and innovative work environment
• Competitive salary, benefits package and 401K
• Team building offsites (Mexico 2024!)  
• Paid Volunteer Time Off (VTO) 
• Professional development and growth opportunities
• Company laptop provided, plus an equipment budget

Interview Process

Our interview processes may differ slightly from role-to-role; however, most of our interviews will follow a similar pattern: 

• Recruiter Interview 
• Hiring Manager interview 
• Technical Interview 
• Final Interview 
• Decision 

We are an early-stage company and may change our interview process from time-to-time, but our hope is that everyone who interviews with us has a positive experience, even if an offer isn’t presented. 

Location: Remote (US/Canada)

Job Type: Full-Time

Salary Range: $160-$180k plus equity and annual bonus.

How to Apply: Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume to careers@instil.io. 

Instil is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military service status, citizenship, or other protected characteristic.

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