Senior DevOps Engineer

Expected compensation: 95.00 - 99.00 USD Per Hour

Hire Art is helping our client find a Senior Dev Ops Engineer to provide follow-the-sun coverage for the ADAS line of business, ensuring platform stability, SLA compliance, and rapid incident response during West Coast business hours.

In this role, you’ll deliver critical coverage during Japan's off-hours, enabling 24/7 SLA adherence for ADAS production systems running on a multi-tenant ecosystem. You’ll partner closely with Japan-based Dev Ops teams, ADAS engineering (19+ engineers, scaling), and platform teams to maintain uptime, reliability, and operational excellence across multiple production environments.

The ideal candidate is an experienced Dev Ops/SRE professional who thrives in high-availability environments, is comfortable owning incidents end-to-end, and brings a strong automation-first mindset.

• Provide SEV-1/SEV-2 incident coverage during PST/PDT hours, ensuring 24/7 SLA adherence and meeting the 2-hour initial response target.
• Deploy, manage, and scale AWS infrastructure (S3, Aurora/Postgres, IAM, Route 53, WAF, Cloud Front) using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code best practices.
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines (Git Hub Actions) to support consistent, reliable deployments across multiple environments (dev, stage, pre-production, production).
• Monitor and support AWS and Kubernetes-based workloads (Stargate platform) to meet a 99.5% uptime target.
• Track application and infrastructure performance using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, and related observability platforms.
• Respond to incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions to improve system reliability.
• Identify manual processes and implement automation to improve efficiency, reduce deployment times, and minimize operational overhead.
• Integrate security best practices into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure, ensuring compliance with Dev Sec Ops  and IaC standards.
• Develop and maintain runbooks, documentation, and best practices to support knowledge sharing and seamless operations across global teams.

• High school diploma or GED
• 5+ years of recent, hands-on professional experience in Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or a related role
• 5+ years of recent, hands-on experience with AWS
• 5+ years of recent, hands-on experience deploying, scaling, and managing Kubernetes environments
• 5+ years of recent, hands-on experience using Terraform for infrastructure-as-code
• 5+ years of recent, hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions
• Experience with Docker and containerized application environments
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, or the ELK stack
• Experience with incident response, on-call rotations, and follow-the-sun support models
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across global teams and JP/NA time zones

• Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio)
• Understanding of Dev Sec Ops  practices, including secure deployments, vulnerability scanning, and incident response
• Familiarity with SDLC and agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Experience working in multi-tenant or enterprise-scale platforms
• Experience with backup/restore automation and disaster recovery processes
• Familiarity with Nx monorepo tooling and multi-tenant architectures

• PTO and paid holidays!
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Employer (Hire Art) Subsidized healthcare benefits
• Flexible Spending Account for healthcare-related costs
• Hire Art covers all costs for short and long term disability and life insurance
• 401k package

This is a full-time, 3-month contract position (with the possibility of extension) staffed via Hire Art. This role is hybrid, requiring three days per week onsite in the Palo Alto office.

Hire Art values diversity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. Unfortunately, we are not able to sponsor visas or employ corp-to-corp.