Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cast & Crew is an entertainment technology and services provider offering screenwriting, accounting, payroll, data, reporting, and creative tools for the global entertainment industry. The Staff DevOps Engineer will serve as a technical anchor for platform engineering, owning CI/CD pipelines, AWS EKS infrastructure, developer experience tooling, reliability improvements, incident response, and technical standards across engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Architect and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, including pipeline-as-code standards, templating strategies, and artifact promotion workflows across environments
- Own the health and evolution of our AWS EKS clusters — node lifecycle, autoscaling, networking (VPC/CNI), RBAC, and cluster upgrades with minimal service disruption
- Design and enforce Infrastructure-as-Code practices using Terraform or equivalent tooling; champion GitOps patterns across engineering teams
- Drive platform reliability improvements informed by observability data from New Relic, working closely with SRE to translate dashboards and alerts into actionable platform changes
- Define and maintain golden-path templates for containerized workloads — Dockerfile standards, Helm chart libraries, and local development parity with production
- Partner with engineering teams to accelerate onboarding of new services onto the platform and reduce toil through automation
- Act as an escalation point for complex infrastructure incidents coordinated through PagerDuty; participate in on-call rotation and lead post-incident reviews for platform-layer failures
- Identify recurring failure modes and drive systemic fixes that reduce page volume and MTTR across the platform
- Maintain and improve runbooks and platform documentation in Confluence, ensuring knowledge is accessible and current
- Define and socialize DevOps standards — pipeline design, container hygiene, secret management, and deployment safety — across a multi-team engineering organization
- Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical guidance on infrastructure-impacting decisions made by product engineering teams
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers; grow internal platform capability through pairing, code review, and structured knowledge sharing
- Identify tooling gaps and build the business case for platform investments, working with engineering leadership to prioritize roadmap items
Skills
- 8+ years of DevOps or platform engineering experience, with at least 2 years operating at a Staff or Principal level in an organization of 100+ engineers
- Deep, hands-on expertise with Kubernetes — EKS specifically preferred — including troubleshooting workloads, networking, storage, and cluster operations at scale
- Strong command of Azure DevOps Pipelines, including YAML pipeline authoring, library management, service connections, and environment promotion gates
- Proven track record designing and maintaining CI/CD systems for microservice architectures with multiple independent teams as consumers
- Experience operating observability platforms (New Relic, Datadog, or similar) to drive proactive reliability improvements, not just reactive alerting
- Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, or Go) and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK)
- Familiarity with feature flag patterns and operational considerations around progressive delivery (Unleash or equivalent is a plus)
- Excellent written communication skills — you default to documentation and can translate complex infrastructure decisions into guidance engineers actually read
- Sedentary – Involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Some positions may entail exerting up to 15 lbs. of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force to lift, carry, push, or pull
- Experience with data engineering or ML infrastructure workloads on Kubernetes (Spark on EKS, Argo Workflows, Airflow)
- Background contributing to or maintaining internal developer portals (Backstage or similar)
- Familiarity with FinOps practices and tooling for AWS cost attribution and optimization across shared Kubernetes clusters
- Experience in SRE-adjacent roles; comfort with SLO/SLI definition and error budget policy
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) match
- Generous PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Health and wellness programs
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee discounts
- Benefits are subject to eligibility requirements.
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