Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TopDog Law is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the security, reliability, and cost of its cloud environments and engineering tools. The role focuses on AWS and GCP infrastructure, CI/CD, cloud security, tooling and cost management, and supporting teams with reliable delivery practices.
Responsibilities
- Own the security posture of our AWS and GCP environments, including IAM and least-privilege access, network design and boundaries, secrets and encryption, and logging and audit, and drive risks to remediation
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code, with clear standards for accounts, environments, and networking that teams can follow
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines with security checks built in, and introduce proven deployment practices such as blue-green and canary releases with reliable rollback
- Assess existing DevOps processes, identify opportunities for improvement, and prioritize and implement solutions
- Administer external engineering tools, including Sentry, APM platforms, and testing tools, covering access, configuration, integrations, and licensing
- Track cloud and tooling spend, provide clear cost reporting to teams, and drive optimization
- Implement monitoring and alerting, and support incident response to keep platforms reliable
- Serve as the DevOps point of contact across business areas, help teams resolve delivery challenges, and document reusable practices and solutions
Skills
- 7+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure engineering, with a track record of securing and operating production cloud environments
- Deep AWS expertise, with working experience in GCP
- Strong networking skills, including VPC design, routing, segmentation, DNS, private connectivity, and defining clear security boundaries
- Strong cloud security practices, including IAM and least privilege, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability management, and audit logging
- Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies such as blue-green, canary, and automated rollback
- Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience administering engineering tools such as Sentry, APM platforms, and testing tools
- Experience with cloud cost visibility and management, including reporting spend clearly to technical and non-technical teams
- Broad understanding of engineering toolchains, including how components integrate and where improvements can be made
- Strong communication skills and a track record of supporting multiple teams and encouraging adoption of shared practices
- AWS certifications, such as Security Specialty or Solutions Architect Professional
- Experience with containers and orchestration (e.g., ECS, EKS, Kubernetes)
- Experience with observability tooling and standards (e.g., Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry)
- Experience supporting data platforms and pipelines (e.g., BigQuery, dbt)
- Experience with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, or in a regulated or document-heavy industry such as legal or financial services
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- HSA
- Life insurance
- Disability coverage
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Fully remote work
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