Senior Devops Engineer - Remote Eligible

Senior DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team. This team builds and maintains the critical infrastructure that powers all of LottieFiles' services; from cloud environments to application clusters. You will play a key role in ensuring our systems are scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-efficient. You'll work closely with engineering teams across the organization to streamline deployments, improve performance, and drive operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Manage and optimize multi-account cloud environments to ensure resilience, performance, and compliance.
• Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines to support safe, rapid, and reliable releases.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to proactively detect and resolve issues.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to streamline deployments, troubleshoot issues, and optimize performance.
• Identify technical risks and gaps, and propose solutions aligned with the team's long-term vision.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-mortem reviews to drive learning and improvement.
• Resolve escalated support issues while contributing to root-cause analysis and systemic improvements.
• Document processes, designs, and operational runbooks to share knowledge and improve team efficiency.

Requirements

• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, with experience building backend services or tooling.
• 5+ years of experience managing production cloud infrastructure (AWS required; GCP/Azure a plus).
• 3+ years of experience operating Kubernetes clusters at scale.
• Knowledge of observability platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, Honeycomb, Datadog).
• Solid understanding of networking, DNS, and multi-region infrastructure design.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions required).
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools (Pulumi preferred; Terraform or AWS CDK acceptable).
• Experience participating in on-call rotations and incident management.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills in complex, distributed systems.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in a distributed, remote team environment.

Optional

• Familiarity with GitOps tooling (e.g., Argo CD, Flux).
• Knowledge of security and compliance standards (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.).

LottieFiles Perks

• Fully Remote Working Environment
• Flexible Work Hours
• A welcome gift and LottieFiles swag pack
• Bonus to set up your workstation at home
• Unlimited Leave Days
• Medical Insurance
• Generous learning budget
• Gym membership
• Co-working space membership