Senior DevOps Engineer

About Lovevery

Lovevery is a fast-growing digitally native brand co-founded by successful serial entrepreneurs and based in Boise, Idaho. Our customers are parents, and our mission is to help them feel confident they are giving their children meaningful development experiences in the critical early years of life. Taking a science-based approach, Lovevery was named one of the 10 most innovative companies of 2024 by Fast Company and has received awards from TIME, Red Dot, Good Housekeeping and Forbes.

The Role

It is critical for us to deliver a digital product experience that is as meaningful as the physical product experience our customers get from Lovevery. To do that well, we need a world class software development and deployment pipeline and infrastructure. We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with a passion for all things DevOps and automation to make environment setup as easy as pressing a button and deployments predictable and high quality.

Attributes Required for Success in the Role

• Passion for Automation - You are the kind of person who constantly looks to optimize and do things better and find joy in delivering simple solutions to complex requests.
• Quality-Focused - You will be a champion for building things in a robust and scalable way.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset - Not afraid of new technologies, lean testing, pair programming and willing to learn new things in order to achieve continuous improvements.
• Pragmatism – You will be building new digital solutions in this role, and you will also be rebuilding platforms and stitching together solutions to create the best experience in the most pragmatic way. You must have the ability to look beyond the current technology stack to get things done.
• Scalability-Focused - As a DevOps Engineer for Lovevery, your vision and execution of the digital platform will lay the groundwork for a scalable offering of digital products.

If you are an experienced Software Engineer with automation and DevOps experience and you have a passion for early childhood, you could be amazing in this role and be part of something special.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and operate the AWS based cloud infrastructure.
• Update, write, and manage helm charts for service deployments.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes utilizing EKS.
• Drive technical solutions to strategic initiatives, architecting and delivering simple solutions to complex requests.
• Identify tools and implement solutions to deploy and monitor internally developed applications.
• Design and implement high availability solutions.
• Work closely with the development teams on architecture to accelerate delivery of our solutions.
• Create and maintain a variety of production and test environments.
• Diagnose complex system issues with multiple influencing factors.
• Work collaboratively with small teams.
• Deal positively with high levels of uncertainty, ambiguity and shifting priorities.
• Constructively present, discuss and debate alternatives being open to feedback from others.
• Take shared ownership of solutions.
• Continually evolve system platforms to meet business needs.
• Act as a mentor and excellent teammate for other engineers fostering and supporting a culture of innovation and excellence.
• Make technical recommendations on build vs buy decisions.
• Drive standards on code quality, security, testability, maintainability, scalability and performance.
• Work in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.

About You

• Excel in delivering high-quality solutions that support software development and deployment.
• You have a proven track record as a top performer for 5+ years in a software engineering role, preferably in a consumer internet business, digital community business, or consumer products business with a digital experience.
• You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related field, preferred.
• You are an expert with Docker and Kubernetes.
• You live and breathe CI/CD.
• You have experience with Github Actions for software build and deployment.
• You have familiarity with Redis, ElasticSearch, Postgresql, NoSQL, Kafka or other messaging solutions.
• You are very comfortable working with AWS.
• You have experience with Terraform and other configuration management tools.
• You prefer terraform to the AWS console.
• You are a highly effective collaborator that thrives working with teams to solve complicated challenges.
• You are self driven taking complete ownership of your tasks and championing efforts to drive solutions.
• You thrive in your ability to solve complex challenges.
• Your written and oral communications are clear, concise, and thorough.

Bonus qualifications

• Experience with Terragrunt.
• You've worked with and augmented monitoring tools such as New Relic and/or OpenTelemetry.
• Proficient in ruby.
• Experience with Jenkins, and/or GitHub Actions.
• Experience with ArgoCD

The Benefits/Perks You'll Enjoy

• Competitive monthly rate paid in USD
• Any equipment you need to get the job done
• Remote working option available anywhere in Brazil

Lovevery is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that values diversity in all forms. All employment decisions at Lovevery are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, HIV status, marital status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

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