# Senior DevOps Engineer

**Company:** [Alpaca](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/alpaca)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** GCP, Terraform, GitOps, Kubernetes, GKE, Helm, Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Alertmanager, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Go
**Posted:** 2026-08-12

> Designs and operates highly available GCP infrastructure and developer platforms for trading-critical systems. The role requires 5+ years of DevOps, platform, infrastructure, or SRE experience, with strong Terraform, Kubernetes, networking, CI/CD, observability, and incident-management skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and evolve cloud architecture on Google Cloud Platform, including networking, interconnects, IAM, and high-availability topology, using Terraform and GitOps.
- Build and own CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure-as-code changes, including automated planning and application, code review, policy-as-code guardrails, drift detection, and progressive rollout.
- Build self-service platform capabilities and golden paths for engineering teams.
- Strengthen observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting using Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Alertmanager.
- Operate GKE clusters and infrastructure services, including Helm-packaged workloads, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, and data stores.
- Participate in a Follow-The-Sun on-call rotation during APAC hours; triage alerts, manage incidents, lead debugging and escalation, and drive blameless post-mortems and follow-up actions.
- Embed SRE practices, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning.

## Requirements
- **5+ years** in a DevOps, platform/infrastructure, or SRE role operating large-scale, high-availability, high-performance production systems.
- Deep hands-on experience designing cloud architecture on Google Cloud Platform, including landing zones, networking, IAM, and high-availability topology.
- Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills with Terraform across multiple environments, using GitOps and least-privilege principles.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines for IaC, including automated plan/apply, code review, policy-as-code, drift detection, and safe rollout.
- Significant production experience with Kubernetes, ideally GKE, and Helm.
- Strong cloud and L3/L4/L7 networking fundamentals, including VPCs, routing, load balancing, DNS, TLS, and interconnects.
- Hands-on experience with modern observability stacks across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
- Operator-level familiarity with PostgreSQL and message brokers such as RabbitMQ or RedPanda.
- Understanding of SRE practices and a Platform-as-a-Product mindset.
- Strong incident-management skills, including structured debugging, escalation, documentation, and post-mortems.
- Availability for APAC-hours on-call participation and effective communication in a distributed, async-first team.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Policy-as-code and IaC quality tooling such as OPA/Conftest, Checkov, tflint, or Atlantis.
- Experience managing Terraform state, module registries, and versioning at scale.
- Experience building self-service developer platforms and internal golden paths with tools such as Backstage or Tilt.
- Experience with the Alloy collector and Rootly.
- Working proficiency in Go for automation and tooling.
- Strong Linux, Debian/Ubuntu, Docker, and containerd fundamentals.
- Security and compliance experience in regulated environments, including SOC 2, secrets management, and audit logging.
- Familiarity with trading, brokerage, regulated fintech, or low-latency systems.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options.
- Health benefits.
- One-time **USD $500** new-hire home-office setup benefit.
- **USD $150 per month** stipend via a Brex Card.

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