Senior DevOps Engineer I

ABOUT THIS ROLE

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at LVT, you will play a pivotal role in designing, scaling, and securing the cloud infrastructure and platform engineering solutions that power our next-generation Agentic AI platform and massive IoT edge fleet. Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager of DevOps, you will collaborate with cross-functional software and hardware engineering teams to drive automation, robust GitOps workflows, and resilient systems design. Your expertise will directly enhance the operational reliability, security, and velocity of our global intelligent site technology.

This role is based out of our Seattle, WA location. It will operate on a hybrid schedule initially, with the expectation of transitioning to a full in-person, in-office model.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Infrastructure Architecture: Own, architect, and continuously optimize cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code across multi-region production environments to support LVT’s massive scaling needs.

• Orchestration & Containerization: Manage, upgrade, and optimize high-availability Kubernetes clusters, focusing on seamless workload performance, advanced networking, and secure configurations.

• Deployment Automation: Drive the continuous adoption and maturation of GitOps practices to build robust, secure, and highly predictable deployment pipelines.

• Cloud Operations: Design and maintain scalable cloud architectures, managing core services, networking, and identity access management while actively leading cost optimization and resource efficiency strategies.

• Security & Zero-Trust Compliance: Ensure rigorous security boundaries and secrets compliance across all infrastructure layers by implementing zero-trust access frameworks and modern secrets management systems.

• Edge & IoT Enablement: Support the operational health, connectivity, and deployment workflows of our global IoT and edge fleet technology, partnering with teams to implement high-throughput messaging infrastructures.

• System Observability: Develop, implement, and maintain advanced observability, monitoring, and alerting frameworks to ensure real-time system health visibility and rapid incident resolution.

• Technical Documentation & Culture: Establish thorough systems documentation, architectural diagrams, and runbooks, while actively championing an asynchronous, collaborative engineering workflow within the DevOps organization.

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE

• Production Experience: Brings 5+ years of proven DevOps, platform, or cloud infrastructure engineering experience within high-availability production environments.

• Kubernetes Mastery: Possesses deep hands-on experience managing Kubernetes workloads, networking, RBAC, storage, and upgrades, with a strong preference for Amazon EKS.

• Infrastructure as Code Expert: Demonstrates advanced Terraform and Terragrunt skills, with the capability to confidently own and refactor complex infrastructure module hierarchies.

• GitOps Delivery: Experienced with declarative continuous delivery methodologies and GitOps tooling, with a strong preference for ArgoCD.

• AWS Ecosystem Fluency: Exhibits deep technical knowledge of core AWS environments, including VPC design, IAM, EKS, ALB/NLB, S3, CloudWatch, and rigorous cloud cost management.

• Systems Fundamentals: Highly comfortable with Linux systems administration, advanced shell scripting, and deep debugging at the operating system level.

• Identity & Secrets Management: Proven experience managing secrets securely, with a strong preference for HashiCorp Vault , alongside exposure to zero-trust access platforms like Teleport, Boundary, or BeyondCorp.

• Collaboration & Communication: Strong written communicator who excels at documenting complex systems, authoring practical runbooks, and executing within async-first workflows.

• Advanced Domain Expertise (Plus): Experience or exposure to IoT/edge fleet management and MQTT brokers , observability platforms like Datadog or Coralogix , AWS GovCloud/FedRAMP compliance contexts , or overlay networking like NetFoundry and OpenZiti.

COMPENSATION

The beginning annual salary range for this role is $151,200.00 - $176,400.00 USD and is determined by location, job-related experience, and education/training. Your total earning potential is amplified by a bonus structure tied to meeting goals, and you will become an owner from day one through our employee equity program.