Senior DevOps Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Devops Engineer to help us shape the future of secure software development. If you love solving complex problems, working with cutting-edge technologies, and mentoring engineering teams, we’d love to hear from you.We’re seeking an experienced engineer who thrives in an agile, collaborative environment and enjoys tackling technical challenges.

As a Senior Devops Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and scaling core products. You’ll work across the stack—building powerful backend services, intuitive frontend experiences, and robust cloud-native applications. You'll also provide technical leadership and mentorship, influencing engineering best practices across the team.

Location:Colombia only -100% Remote. Working hours are based between the CST and EST time zones.

About the Company

Abstra is a fast-growing, Nearshore Tech Talent services company, providing top Latin American tech talent to U.S. companies and beyond. Founded by U.S.-bred engineers with over 15 years of experience, Abstra specializes in sourcing skilled professionals across a wide range of technologies to meet our clients’ needs, driving innovation and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities
- You are an engineer who has 4+ years of experience running high availability systems and supporting infrastructure in customer-facing production environments.

- You are motivated by the opportunity to define repeatable practices for service delivery- via modular, reusable automation and a developer platform that enables self-service delivery of services. You will also participate in the governance controls that reduce risk and promote standardization across the organization.

- You will be a member of the Developer Experience team, which has a wide range of responsibilities to drive service delivery excellence for products and services that are customer-facing and customer-adjacent.

- You will refine a set of high-level enablement practices - for instance, design review, service launch coordination, production readiness assessment, service level objective definition / review, incident management, and cost awareness- to support delivery teams at various phases of their service lifecycle and maturity.

- You will collaborate closely with delivery teams to define product specific metrics and remediations through system analysis, testing, and fault troubleshooting.

Minimum Qualifications
- Proficiency with a high-level programming language (eg: Python, Go), bash scripting and linux.

- Proficiency in modern technical operating practices.

- System architecture & design experience.

- Continuous integration / continuous delivery (Jenkins, FluxCD and GitHub Actions).

- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

- Cloud services (AWS) and Kubernetes.

- SRE principles & practices.

- Experience with specific AWS offerings, including many of:

- ECS/EKS/ECR.

- EC2, S3, RDS, VPCs.

- IAM Policy Docs, Policies, Roles, and Instance Profiles.

- Cloudwatch Logs.

- Docker Containers and orchestration (ECS, EKS).

- Terraform and the use of Terraform modules.

- Kubernetes cluster concepts and design.

- Experience improving service observability: monitoring agents, metrics, logging and dashboards. Knowledge of OpenTelemetry and Prometheus and observability platforms similar to
DataDog, Splunk, Dynatrace or Observe.

- Comfortable participating in an on-call rotation with teammates to respond and triage production issue escalations during off-hours.

What We Offer

- Competitive compensation paid in USD.

- 20 days of paid time off (PTO) per year.

- Opportunities for professional growth and career development.

- Company-provided equipment.

- A collaborative, inclusive, and multicultural work environment.

- The opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects alongside a talented and supportive team.

Pre-Employment Verification
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