GiveCampus · 2 days ago
Senior DevOps Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expGiveCampus is the world's leading fundraising platform for non-profit educational institutions, helping to advance the quality, affordability, and accessibility of education. They are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to drive and strengthen their DevOps practices, architect reliable systems, and automate infrastructure processes to enhance platform performance.
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Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain a fully codified AWS environment using Terraform with zero manual changes
Architect scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS infrastructure (networking, compute, storage, IAM)
Drive multi-account architecture, VPC design, and environment standardization
Containerize existing applications and ensure production-grade deployments in AWS
Build migration playbooks, rollout strategies, and safe cutover processes
Modernize CI/CD pipelines to use container-based builds and deployments
Implement self-service deployment workflows with automated rollback capabilities
Establish pipeline templates, shared build images, and guardrails for all engineering teams
Own Terraform modules, standards, and tooling to ensure reproducible and auditable infrastructure
Enforce best practices for versioning, module reuse, secrets management, and CI-driven Terraform plans/apply
Create automated checks to eliminate drift and prevent manual changes
Partner with the SRE Engineer to deliver end-to-end observability: logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and SLOs
Standardize instrumentation across services and environments
Improve system reliability, alert quality, and on-call readiness
Build and improve internal platform tooling to speed up local development, testing, and deployments
Provide clear, intuitive interfaces for application engineers to use infrastructure safely and independently
Remove friction from engineering workflows and reduce deployment times/cycle times
Implement IAM least privilege, secrets management, and environment isolation patterns
Ensure CI/CD pipelines and containers align with security & compliance standards
Partner with Security Engineering to embed controls into infrastructure and deployments
Establish runbooks, standards, and automation for operational tasks (backups, failovers, DR plans)
Continually reduce operational burden through tooling, automation, and resilient architectures
Monitor cost drivers and implement cost optimization strategies across AWS and CI/CD
Work closely with Application Engineering, SRE, Security, and Product teams to support new features and roadmap goals
Translate engineering requirements into scalable infrastructure designs
Participate in architecture reviews, incident postmortems, and planning cycles
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Platform Engineering, with ownership of production AWS environments
Deep expertise in AWS services (ECS, ALB, VPC, RDS, S3, ElastiCache, IAM, CloudWatch)
Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) — Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation
Hands-on experience designing highly available, scalable, and cost-efficient architectures (multi-AZ, auto-scaling, HA patterns)
Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (VPC design, routing, VPN, NAT, security groups, load balancing)
Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines — GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or equivalent; building container-based pipelines for AWS deployments
Experience with container orchestration (preferrably ECS) and image lifecycle management
Experience supporting and deploying Ruby on Rails applications in containerized or cloud-based environments
Competence in scripting or automation (Python, Bash, Go, or similar)
Experience implementing or integrating observability tooling — metrics, tracing, and centralized logging (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK)
Strong collaboration skills — partnering with SRE, Security, and Application teams
Track record of driving migrations or modernization projects (e.g., Heroku to AWS, monolith to containers)
Preferred
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional certified is preferrable
Company
GiveCampus
GiveCampus is a fundraising platform for nonprofit educational institutions.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$50MKey Investors
Silversmith Capital PartnersCSC Upshot
2022-09-19Private Equity· $50M
2016-08-31Seed
2015-09-01Seed
Leadership Team
Kestrel Linder
Co-Founder and CEO
Michael Kong
Co-Founder and CTO
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