Senior DevOps Engineer

About El Toro

At El Toro, everything we do starts with one purpose: turning data into results brands can see, measure, and trust. As the leader in accurate, measurable, and trusted IP Targeting technology, we help brands reach exactly the right audiences and prove every dollar spent. From our Louisville, Kentucky headquarters, our patented (25 and counting) technology delivers privacy‑compliant, high‑precision campaigns with unprecedented transparency and attribution.

We’re scaling quickly, pushing the boundaries of what digital advertising can be, and we’re looking for exceptional people who want to build the future with us.

Louisville, KY (Hybrid)

As a Senior Dev Ops Engineer, you will serve as a key architect and technical authority for our cloud infrastructure. This is a high-impact role focused on designing resilient systems, automating complex workflows, and ensuring the technical integrity of our deployment ecosystem. You will be responsible for the strategic alignment of our infrastructure with evolving business objectives, ensuring peak performance and security.

• Strategic Architecture:
  Partner with developers to design cloud-native architectures, migration strategies, and application optimizations that directly enable business objectives and long-term architectural direction.
• Automation & Pipeline Engineering:
  Maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) to ensure seamless, automated software delivery.
• Container Ecosystem:
  Maintain Docker/Container clusters and take a lead role in creating or improving custom Kubernetes tooling and controllers.
• System Reliability & Monitoring:
  Proactively improve monitoring and alerting systems to ensure high availability. Engineer and improve sophisticated monitoring and alert systems to proactively identify and mitigate system bottlenecks.
• Security & Compliance:
  Act as a guardian of the ecosystem by maintaining relevance in best practices regarding compliance, privacy, and legal security requirements.
• Technical Troubleshooting:
  Serve as the final point of escalation for complex technical challenges and participate in on-call support rotation.

• Cloud Tenure:
  Comprehensive cloud infrastructure experience (or advanced degree and/or certification) focusing on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Kubernetes
  
  Experience:
  
  Experience troubleshooting applications on Kubernetes both developer built and applications deployed from open source including operators.
• Custom K8s Development:
  Built custom applications (e.g., metric exporters) to fill gaps in existing tooling and monitoring infrastructure.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
  Proven track record of automating infrastructure provisioning and managing complex CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Github Actions, Terraform, Argo).
• Data Proficiency:
  Hands‑on experience configuring and maintaining multiple database types (e.g. Postgresql, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Thanos).
• Vendor Management:
  Experience collaborating with and managing external technical partners or third‑party service providers.
• Coding:
  Experience in writing software in one or more of the following languages:
  Python, Shell, Go, or similar.
• Security-First Mindset:
  Familiarity with advanced security protocols, including automated secret management, encryption at rest/transit, and IAM governance.
• Observability Pro:
  Experience engineering custom monitoring, tracing, and alerting systems that go beyond standard "out‑of‑the‑box" metrics.

• Advanced Architecture:
  Practical experience with Event‑Driven Architecture and Complex Event Processing (CEP).
• Microservices Expert:
  Deep understanding of microservice design patterns and service discovery.

• A fast‑paced, fun, and open culture with an entrepreneurial spirit.
• A work environment headquartered in the heart of Louisville’s NuLu District, with friendly office dogs and leadership that is available and listens.
• Competitive medical and health benefits plans.
• 100% Company‑paid life insurance, short‑term disability, and long‑term disability.
• 401k plan with company contribution of 3%, once qualified.
• 15 PTO days per year, which increases…