Senior Dev Ops Engineer/Architect

Point Wild helps customers monitor, manage, and protect against the risks associated with their identities and personal information in a digital world. Backed by WndrCo, Warburg Pincus and General Catalyst, Point Wild is dedicated to creating the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of industry-leading cybersecurity solutions. Our vision is to become THE go-to resource for every cyber protection need individuals may face - today and in the future. 

Join us for the ride!

Job Overview: 

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong background in Cloud Architecture. In this role, you will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of cloud-based infrastructure and DevOps pipelines, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across all environments. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to support and enhance our AWS infrastructure, as well as play a key role in defining and executing the architectural vision for our cloud-based solutions.  This position requires expertise in automation, cloud services, continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD), and containerization technologies. You will work collaboratively with development, QA, and operations teams to streamline processes and improve overall system reliability and performance

Day to Day:

• Cloud Architecture & Design:
• Lead the design and architecture of highly available, scalable, and secure AWS environments.
• Define infrastructure as code (IaC) patterns and best practices for AWS services, including EC2, ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, S3, VPC, RDS, EKS, Kafka, ElasticSearch and more.
• Implement cost optimization strategies while ensuring high performance and reliability.
• Drive automation and CI/CD pipeline development for seamless deployment workflows.
• Implement a strategy around production logging/observability and tooling/automation.
• DevOps Leadership:
• Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and continuous integration/deployment pipelines.
• Build and maintain robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for cloud resources.
• Work closely with development teams to integrate DevOps practices and tools to streamline the deployment process.
• Collaboration & Mentorship:
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including development, QA, and operations to ensure that infrastructure and application services meet the organization’s needs.
• Mentor junior engineers, helping to grow the team’s technical capabilities and promote best practices in cloud-native architectures.
• Provide leadership and guidance on the use of modern DevOps tools and practices.
• Security & Compliance:
• Ensure that all cloud infrastructure adheres to security best practices, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and network security controls.
• Lead efforts in maintaining compliance with relevant standards and regulations (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA).
• Incident Response & Troubleshooting:
• Take ownership of resolving infrastructure-related issues and incidents, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance.
• Lead root cause analysis and contribute to the continuous improvement of systems and processes.
• Research & Innovation:
• Stay up-to-date with AWS innovations and best practices, and evaluate new technologies to drive improvements in infrastructure and automation.
• Champion new solutions to improve system performance, scalability, and reliability.

What you bring to the table:

• Experience:
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps engineering, with at least 5+ years focused on AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Proven experience in designing, architecting, and deploying large-scale systems on AWS.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
• Strong experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS).
• Solid knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, etc.).  Expert understanding of GitHub Actions.
• Deep understanding of AWS services (EC2, ECS, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Kafka, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, Lambda, VPC, IAM, etc.).
• Experience working with both SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB) databases.
• Architectural Experience:
• Experience in designing highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable systems using AWS best practices.
• Ability to design cloud-native architectures and integrate with on-premise or hybrid systems.
• Strong knowledge of networking (VPC, subnets, routing, security groups, NACLs) in AWS.
• Programming & Scripting:
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Bash, or Ruby for automation.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Security & Compliance:
• Solid understanding of cloud security principles, IAM, encryption, and network security.
• Experience with security audits and maintaining security compliance in AWS environments.

It would be great if you also had:

• Certifications:
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
• Other relevant certifications (e.g., Certified Kubernetes Administrator, HashiCorp Terraform Associate).
• Tools/Technologies:
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools like Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog, etc.
• Expert level on Terraform and GitHub actions.
• Familiarity with serverless technologies (e.g., AWS Lambda, Step Functions).
• Experience with database management in the cloud (RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora).

Pango Group is committed to offering a generous package to support our employees in all aspects of their life in and out of work.  Our packages offer competitive pay, generous health and wellness benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave and much more!  

Pay range for this position is $180,000 - $210,000 but may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location.

As part of Point Wild, you will:

Solve real customer problems. Point Wild’s point solutions allow consumers to address their immediate cyber protection needs. Our mandate is to continuously anticipate our customers’ evolving digital security needs to create best-in-class solutions aimed at keeping them safe.

See your impact. We are a scrappy, nimble organization where individual contributions are needed and valued. You will see your impact every day.

Accelerate your career.  As we expand, you will have the opportunity to learn new technologies, products, and markets in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.

Most importantly, you’ll get to work with other talented people at a company where people matter. If you want to put your fingerprint on an organization and leapfrog your growth, this is the place for you.

In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination or harassment based on “protected categories,” Point Wild is committed to being an inclusive community where all feel welcome. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Point Wild.

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