Full-Time Lead DevOps/DevSecOps/SR Engineer
Kenect is hiring a remote Full-Time Lead DevOps/DevSecOps/SR Engineer. The career level for this job opening is Senior Manager and is accepting USA based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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About Us Kenect is on a mission to revolutionize customer communication and engagement for businesses across North America. Kenect helps companies streamline communication, enhance customer satisfaction, and drive growth through its innovative messaging and reputation platform. Trusted by thousands of businesses, our passionate team is committed to building technology that fosters closer connections and helps businesses thrive in a digital-first world.
About the role As a Lead DevOps/DevSecOps/SR Engineer, you will be part of the Developer Experience (DevX) team at Kenect. As a lead, you will manage a small sub-team in a player/coach capacity. You will have in-depth experience and knowledge within at least one of the DevOps, DevSecOps, or SRE disciplines and solid experience in the other two. The goal of the DevX team is to assist feature development teams to increase security, availability, reliability, monitoring, alerting, code quality, and delivery speed.
What You Will Be Doing
- Foster a DevOps/DevSecOps/SRE mindset on all the cross-functional teams.
- Help engineers define, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot their software and its infrastructure.
- Manage a remote-first team.
- Cost management and maintaining vendor relationships
- Proactively improve Kenect's security posture, and work with architecture to address issues.
- Improve SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, and alerting.
- Troubleshoot production incidents and participate in post-mortems.
- Maintain awareness of cloud technologies and architectural patterns to judiciously recommend tools that add value to the business.
- Contribute to large-scale initiatives (e.g. migrations).
- Automate everything; strive to improve tooling provided to software engineers.
- Be agile, and help the engineering teams to be agile too.
- Scale and monitor databases (Cloud SQL PostgreSQL and MySQL).
- Be a Kubernetes expert and improve Kenect's software uptime and security.
- Manage and provision resources in Google Cloud and Kubernetes.
- Contribute to efforts to achieve multi-region application availability.