Canopy is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to architect and evolve our cloud infrastructure. You'll design scalable solutions, mentor engineers, and drive strategic initiatives supporting our growing SaaS platform, reporting to the Director of DevOps and Security.
What You'll Do
- Design and implement scalable infrastructure solutions on AWS/EKS.
- Own critical components of Kubernetes infrastructure, including cluster design, networking, and observability.
- Lead architectural reviews and provide technical direction for infrastructure initiatives.
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies to improve reliability, security, and developer experience.
- Partner with Engineering leadership to align infrastructure roadmap with business objectives.
- Lead Terraform and Pulumi implementations, establishing patterns and best practices.
- Build automation and developer tooling to improve deployment velocity and reduce toil.
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.
- Create self-service infrastructure tooling for development teams.
- Establish infrastructure testing strategies and automation frameworks.
- Own the reliability and performance of EKS clusters and supporting AWS infrastructure.
- Implement and maintain ingress and routing infrastructure using Traefik.
- Manage and optimize data infrastructure including PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Snowflake.
- Establish SLOs/SLIs and implement comprehensive monitoring and alerting with Datadog.
- Design and test disaster recovery procedures and business continuity plans.
- Lead incident response for infrastructure issues and drive post-incident reviews.
- Optimize PostgreSQL RDS instances for performance, reliability, and cost.
- Implement infrastructure security controls in partnership with the Security team.
- Manage secrets and credential lifecycle using HashiCorp Vault.
- Ensure infrastructure compliance with SOC 2 requirements.
- Design and implement network security policies, VPC architecture, and IAM strategies.
- Conduct security reviews of infrastructure changes and third-party integrations.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to DevOps engineers.
- Conduct code and design reviews, elevating team engineering practices.
- Lead knowledge-sharing sessions and documentation initiatives.
- Contribute to hiring and onboarding processes for the DevOps team.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.
What We're Looking For
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
- Deep expertise with AWS services and architecture patterns (VPC, IAM, EKS, RDS, CloudWatch, etc.).
- Production experience managing Kubernetes clusters at scale, preferably EKS.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform and/or Pulumi.
- Experience with PostgreSQL operations, backup/recovery, performance tuning, and high availability.
- Proficiency designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, particularly with GitHub Actions.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts including VPCs, load balancing, DNS, and ingress controllers.
- Track record of designing systems for high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Self-starter mentality with ability to own initiatives from strategy through execution.
Nice to Have
- Experience in regulated environments (SOC 2, HIPAA, or similar compliance frameworks).
- Experience with ArgoCD or other GitOps tools.
- Hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault for secrets management.
- Experience with message brokers like RabbitMQ or similar technologies.
- Experience with Redis for caching and session management.
- Familiarity with data warehouse platforms like Snowflake.
- Experience with ingress controllers and API gateways (Traefik, NGINX, Kong, etc.).
- Experience with Datadog or similar observability platforms (APM, logging, distributed tracing).
- Proficiency with scripting languages (Python, Bash, Go) for automation and tooling.
- Experience mentoring and growing engineering teams in previous roles.
- Knowledge of zero-trust security architectures and implementation.
- Experience with cloud cost optimization strategies and practices.
- Familiarity with service mesh technologies.
Technical Stack
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, EKS, Kubernetes
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Pulumi
- CI/CD & GitOps: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
- Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Snowflake
- Networking & Ingress: Traefik
- Observability & Security: Datadog, HashiCorp Vault
Team & Environment
You will work with the Director of DevOps and Security and the DevOps engineering team, reporting to the Director of DevOps and Security. Our culture emphasizes delighting customers, solving problems, and being good people, with a focus on continuous improvement.
Benefits & Compensation
- Flexible Paid Time Off plus 10 company holidays.
- Health Benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, and an HSA Match.
- 401(k) with 100% match up to 3% of contribution. Immediate eligibility with 100% vesting.
- Mental Health access to Impact Suite and Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Paid New Parent Leave & Birthing Parent Leave.
- Supplemental Benefits including 100% company paid Basic Life & AD&D insurance and long & short-term disability coverage.
- Nectar peer-to-peer recognition program.
- Company Events.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position based in South Jordan, Utah.
Canopy is an equal opportunity employer.
