Senior DevOps Engineer

October 9, 2026

Remote

Senior

Description

Plus8Soft is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the team on a remote basis. The role centers on designing, building, testing and supporting infrastructure, CI/CD and self-service platforms that make releases and environment management predictable and reversible. The engineer will own observability for critical trading paths, establish Continuous Delivery practices, and lead technical projects including architecture decisions, code reviews and mentoring.

Responsibilities

Design, build, test, and support infrastructure, CI/CD, and self-service platforms
Own and improve observability for critical trading paths through centralized logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and runbooks
Shorten mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-recover
Create documentation and resources to enable engineers to use platform tools effectively
Work closely with Technical Leadership to plan and prioritize platform reliability and developer-experience initiatives
Partner with Core and Ops on production readiness, including capacity, failover, environment parity, and safe operational workflows
Develop a robust Continuous Delivery practice with rapid feedback loops without increasing risk to live trading
Lead technical projects including architecture and design decisions, code reviews/pairing, and mentoring of less experienced engineers
Assist with hands-on delivery and secondment-style support when rolling out platform changes across teams

Requirements

5+ years of software engineering experience including time as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or DevOps
Strong focus on observability and production reliability
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders
Deep expertise in observability practices including centralized logging, distributed tracing, and metrics collection
Preferably Datadog, or familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, and similar stacks
Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining logging pipelines and monitoring strategies
Proficient with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK
Demonstrated experience designing and managing cloud-native applications and services on AWS
Strong understanding of DevOps practices, automation, orchestration, containers, and serverless architectures
Experience supporting Java / JVM production services is a strong plus
Familiarity with Continuous Delivery practices including CI, test automation, and safe deployment strategies
Comfortable working with distributed, global teams and asynchronous collaboration
Adept at making rapid, high-quality decisions in fast-paced environments, with a bias toward action and ownership