Senior Devops Engineer - MN

LOCATION: Our office is located in Minnetonka, MN. Candidates must reside in the Twin Cities area and will be required to be in-office 5 days per week. We do offer a flexible work environment.

• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure using Pulumi.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
• Manage environment configurations across dev, staging, and production.
• Implement version control and code review processes for infrastructure changes.
• Develop reusable infrastructure components and modules.

• Manage and optimize AWS services including ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, Cloud Front, and VPC configurations.
• Implement AWS best practices for security, performance, and cost optimization.
• Monitor and maintain system health across multiple environments (dev, staging, production).
• Conduct regular infrastructure audits and implement improvements.

• Design, implement, and maintain disaster recovery plans for critical systems and databases.
• Develop and execute backup strategies for RDS databases, S3 data, and application configurations.
• Conduct regular DR drills and validate recovery procedures.
• Document and maintain runbooks for disaster recovery scenarios.
• Implement multi-region failover strategies for high-availability services.

• Perform routine system maintenance including patching, updates, and security hardening.
• Manage database maintenance tasks including backups, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Monitor system performance and proactively address potential issues.
• Coordinate maintenance windows and communicate with stakeholders.
• Maintain and rotate secrets, certificates, and access credentials.

• Support application deployments for Angular containers, NestJS servers, and Java Spring Boot services.
• Manage Docker container deployments to AWS ECS and serverless environments.
• Coordinate release of deployments and provide rollback support when needed.
• Maintain deployment documentation and standard operating procedures.

• Implement and maintain AWS security best practices including IAM policies, security groups, and encryption.
• Conduct regular security assessments and vulnerability remediation.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards for banking and financial services integrations.
• Manage access controls and audit logging across AWS environments.

• Maintain comprehensive monitoring solutions using Cloud Watch, application logs, and custom metrics.
• Configure and tune alerting thresholds for infrastructure and application health.
• Participate in on‑call rotation for production incidents.
• Conduct post-incident reviews and implement preventative measures.

• Monitor and optimize AWS costs through resource right sizing and reserved capacity planning.
• Identify and eliminate unused or underutilized resources.
• Implement cost allocation tags and provide cost reporting to stakeholders.

• Create and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.
• Document system configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
• Share knowledge with development and operations teams through training and mentorship.

• Work closely with SRE team on infrastructure reliability and incident response.
• Partner with development teams to understand operational requirements.
• Collaborate with security team on compliance and vulnerability management.
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies and contribute to operational planning.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in Dev Ops, systems administration, or cloud operations roles.
• Solid experience with infrastructure as code tools, particularly Pulumi, Terraform or Cloud Formation.
• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS services and cloud architecture.
• Proven experience designing and implementing disaster recovery solutions.
• Solid understanding of database administration, particularly PostgreSQL/RDS.
• Experience with containerization using…