Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bellese Technologies is a mission-driven digital services company developing innovative technology solutions for civic healthcare. The Staff Engineer, DevOps will design and maintain secure, scalable backend systems and cloud infrastructure while leading DevSecOps, CI/CD, automation, observability, security, and reliability initiatives. The role also includes mentoring engineers and collaborating with technical stakeholders to improve engineering practices and delivery.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-quality software services, with an emphasis on backend systems, microservices, and APIs
- Participate in architecture and design discussions, providing expertise on cloud architecture, application security, scalability, reliability, and appropriate technologies and frameworks
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that automate software build, test, security validation, deployment, and release processes across development and production environments
- Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies to provision and manage AWS infrastructure consistently and securely
- Develop and manage containerized applications and supporting platforms using technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes/EKS
- Apply DevSecOps practices by integrating security controls, automated security testing, vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and compliance checks throughout the software development lifecycle
- Deploy and maintain observability solutions for microservices and APIs, including centralized logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alerting, and performance monitoring
- Troubleshoot complex application, infrastructure, deployment, and production issues; perform root-cause analysis and implement preventative improvements
- Conduct code, architecture, infrastructure, and security reviews to identify risks, vulnerabilities, reliability concerns, and opportunities for improvement
- Participate in vulnerability management, threat assessments, security reviews, and remediation activities across applications, containers, dependencies, and AWS infrastructure
- Implement and maintain AWS security, compliance, governance, and access-control practices in accordance with organizational policies and applicable industry standards
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, deployment procedures, runbooks, API documentation, security controls, and operational procedures
- Collaborate with software engineers, architects, security teams, infrastructure teams, and other stakeholders to establish secure and reliable engineering practices
- Mentor engineers and promote a culture of automation, security, reliability, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend tools and practices that improve engineering productivity, security, scalability, and operational efficiency
- Contribute to technical estimation, prioritization, planning, and delivery of engineering initiatives
Skills
- US Citizenship or Green Card only - we do not offer Sponsorship
- US Residency for at least the past 3 years
- Able to meet the requirements to hold a position of Public Trust, including successful completion of a US Government background investigation
Benefits
- Remote First, Remote Only Culture
- Four weeks paid time off yearly (prorated based on start date for the first year)
- 10 paid floating company holidays
- Flexible schedule
- Work from home setup including a Macbook
- Collaborative, learning environment
- Medical, dental, and company-paid vision insurance
- Optional HSA account with some medical plans and a company contribution
- Company paid basic life and AD&D insurance coverages
- Company paid short and long term life insurance
- Optional critical illness and accident insurance
- 401K plan with 3% safe harbor contribution
- Wellness resources and virtual care
- Perks Plus employee discounts
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