S Senior Software Engineer, Devops Slate Auto Seattle, Washington

At Slate, we're building safe, reliable vehicles that people can afford, personalize and love and doing it here in the USA as part of our commitment to reindustrialization. The spirit of DIY and customization runs throughout every element of a Slate, because people should have control over how their trucks look, feel, and represent them.

Slate is looking for a Senior Dev Ops Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure that our digital, data, manufacturing and enterprise teams depend on. We don't separate Dev Ops from SRE. The team that builds the platform also runs it, carries the pager, and is accountable for its reliability. You'll work across a multi-account AWS organization and help stand up a hybrid Kubernetes platform that spans Amazon EKS and self-managed clusters in our own facilities.

You'll be a day-to-day partner to the teams we support: taking their requests, turning them into well-built infrastructure, and helping them ship and debug in production. You will report to the leader of the Dev Ops team and take part in the team's on-call rotation.

You like shipping infrastructure that works and keeps working. You write it as code, you test it, and you leave it better documented than you found it.

When something breaks, you follow the evidence from the load balancer to the pod to the log line, and you fix the cause, not just the symptom.

You treat the teams you support as customers. You ask what they are trying to do before you answer the request as written.

If you've done something by hand twice, you're already scripting the third time.

Stand up and operate Amazon EKS clusters and self-managed Kubernetes clusters on virtualized infrastructure provided by our IT team. Own cluster provisioning, add-ons, upgrades and day-two operations.

Build infrastructure in Python with AWS CDK across our multi-account organization, including networking, IAM, DNS, compute, containers, databases and storage.

Work directly with our Digital teams (customer-facing website and backend services), Data Engineering and other teams across Slate to deliver the environments, access and pipelines they need, and help them resolve production issues.

Build and maintain CI/CD workflows, reusable Git Hub Actions, container build and release patterns, and Git Ops deployments to Kubernetes.

Take part in the on-call rotation, respond to incidents, write postmortems for the incidents you handle, and follow through on the fixes. Build the dashboards and alerts that make problems visible early.

Turn repeated requests into self-service tooling and repeatable automation, so the team spends its time on the next problem rather than the last one.

Write the runbooks, how-to guides and design notes that let teammates