Senior DevOps Engineer - Build / Environment Manager

Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems, from education to the economy, broken communities, and toxic division, among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding, thought leadership, a network of peers, and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society.

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Lead Engineer to lead and evolve the DevOps function for the Be The People digital ecosystem — a suite of highly visible, public-facing applications. This is a senior individual contributor role with strong technical leadership expectations, responsible for environments, CI/CD pipelines, release readiness, and operational guardrails.

This role operates with a high degree of autonomy and judgment, balancing delivery velocity with reliability, security, and long-term maintainability. You will collaborate with software engineers, data engineers, architects, cloud engineers, and product stakeholders to tackle some of society's most pressing challenges.

### How You Will Contribute

DevOps & Platform Ownership

Lead the DevOps function end-to-end for Be The People, and contribute to how applications are assembled, tested, released, and operated

Lead creation and lifecycle management of environments, including spinning up new environments and coordinating content and data seeding

Contribute to the design and evolution of platform architecture with an emphasis on scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency

Establish cloud standards and manage cloud operations in cooperation with Cloud Engineering.

CI/CD & Automation

Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions as the primary orchestrator

Establish reusable workflow templates and best practices without introducing unnecessary complexity

Apply Infrastructure-as-Code discipline — including versioning, promotion across environments, and drift prevention — using tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, CDK, Ansible, or CloudFormation

Develop and debug Python, Ansible Playbooks, Terraform, and other infrastructure-as-code tooling

Release Readiness & Operational Guardrails

Own or steward the release management function, acting as a go/no-go checkpoint to ensure required testing has occurred, stakeholder sign-offs are complete, and risks are clearly surfaced

Participate in production incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-incident learning

Construct a resilient ecosystem capable of quickly restoring services, and participate in developing the disaster recovery playbook for Be The People

Observability, Reliability & Security

Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability for production systems using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, or ELK Stack

Participate in the development, implementation, and automation of security policies

Apply baseline security best practices across infrastructure and pipelines

Apply SRE-inspired practices such as defining SLIs/SLOs and designing systems operable by teams beyond DevOps

Cloud, CDN & Infrastructure

Deeply understand CDN configuration (e.g., Cloudflare), including caching layers and their impact on testing and production behavior

Be competent in DNS concepts and troubleshooting, even if DNS ownership resides elsewhere

Optimize cloud infrastructure (AWS primary; familiarity with Azure and GCP a plus) for performance, reliability, and cost

Provide architectural guidance and design recommendations for cloud assets, resource consolidation, and standardized practices

Testing & Quality Enablement

Help shape test automation strategy, recognizing AI-assisted testing and organizational QA maturity constraints

Ensure testing happens and is validated, rather than personally writing all tests

Partner with the testing team on test automation, test tracking, and incorporate into the release process

Embed quality checks as first-class controls in delivery pipelines

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

Serve as a technical leader who leads through influence rather than authority

Collaborate cross-functionally with application, infrastructure, and data teams

Participate in technical screening and interview panels, including short, high-signal technical screens

Coach and mentor engineers on cloud and DevOps best practices, raising overall DevOps maturity

Create and maintain durable documentation, including environment definitions, deployment processes, and runbooks

### What You Will Bring

Experience

10+ years of relevant DevOps and Cloud Engineering experience — this is a senior-level role not suitable for junior or mid-level candidates

Proven experience operating production systems with real customer and business impact

Minimum 5 years of professional Cloud Engineering background, with deep AWS expertise

Technical Skills

CI/CD: GitHub Actions (primary), plus experience with CircleCI, Jenkins, Bamboo, Harness.io, or AWS CodePipeline

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CDK, Serverless Stack (SST), Ansible Playbooks, or CloudFormation

Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Rancher

Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Lambda, SQS, SNS, ECS, ECR, Elastic Load Balancers, S3, Amplify, CodeBuild); familiarity with Azure, Google Cloud, and Acquia

CDN & Networking: Cloudflare; understanding of DNS, Custom TCP, SSH, HTTPS, UDP, VPNs, Load Balancing, and Firewalls

Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, ELK Stack, or Graylog

Databases: DocumentDB / MongoDB (operational context); SQL background advantageous

Security: Secure SDLC concepts including secrets management, scanning, and least-privilege access

Languages: Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, or Java (for Lambda and scripting)

Version Control: Git and GitHub

Configuration Management: Ansible, Chef, or Puppet

Project Management, Sprint Planning & Release Planning: Jira and Confluence

Leadership & Soft Skills

Strong judgment and ownership — comfortable saying 'no' or 'not yet' when appropriate

Formal people-management experience is not required; demonstrated technical leadership through influence is expected

Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders around risk and tradeoffs

Comfortable with command-line tools and the Linux/Unix environment

Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect.

### What Success Looks Like

Releases are predictable, governed, process driven and “low-drama”

CI/CD pipelines are reliable, understandable, and trusted by engineering teams

Systems are scalable, observable, and operable by the broader organization

DevOps acts as an enabler with intentional guardrails — not a bottleneck

The platform and practices are positioned to scale with future organizational growth

### Standout Candidates Will Bring

AWS or Azure certifications (Certified Developer, DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect, Data Analytics, or Database)

Experience with regulated or compliance-sensitive environments

Exposure to multi-product or platform organizations

Experience modernizing legacy delivery practices

Background in building and deploying web applications from source code

DevSecOps experience including code analysis, vulnerability management, regulatory compliance, security policy monitoring, to help build a security-aware culture

### What We Offer

Competitive benefits: Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting, flexible time off, comprehensive health and dental plans, plus wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace.

A meaningful career: Join a passionate community of over 1,300 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges.

Commitment to growth: Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop and apply their unique talents.

* Competitive compensation: Our approach rewards the value you create through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities, allowing you to share in the success you help drive.

Our Values: Working for an organization within the Stand Together philanthropic community is different from many other places. The culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment. PBM® empowers employees to be entrepreneurial, to innovate, and to continually drive transformation.

We believe diversity fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, and respect.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.