Senior DevOps Software Engineer - Argentina or Mexico Based

About OpenSesame

OpenSesame’s mission is to help develop the world’s most productive and admired workforces. We offer a comprehensive catalog of more than 40,000 eLearning courses from top publishers, but we genuinely provide companies with the opportunity to enhance and upgrade the skills of their employees.

As we grow, we diversify revenue streams, expand our product offerings, and strengthen our partner network. Our customer base has high satisfaction ratings, and there is significant opportunity to further improve retention and overall impact.

Learn more: www.opensesame.com/about

About the Job

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer with a strong security mindset to join our fully remote team and contribute to the growth and success of OpenSesame’s eLearning platform. You will have strong technical expertise in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and cloud platforms, along with excellent collaboration and communication skills. You will design and manage scalable, secure systems primarily on AWS, leveraging IaC to ensure high performance and resilience.

A key part of your impact will be enabling developers to move faster and more safely. You will streamline and embed security best practices into our platform architecture and automation tooling to reduce friction,and promote self-service across the development lifecycle.

Success in this role requires a combination of technical leadership, security awareness, and a commitment to developer enablement through automation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Performance Objectives:

In your first 90 days:

Get fully integrated into the team’s workflow, integrate with the team, and begin contributing to secure, scalable infrastructure while identifying key opportunities to improve developer experience.

• Team Integration & Shared Ownership: Build strong relationships across our engineering teams. Gain an understanding of infrastructure workflows and shared responsibilities for security, and automation. Champion a culture of ownership across the full software development lifecycle.
• Technical Contribution: Enhance our Infrastructure Automation and cloud configuration, demonstrating expertise in IaC tools (e.g. Terraform) to enable consistent, auditable and automated infrastructure provisioning.
• Mentorship & Skill Development: Mentor engineers on DevOps principles including security by design, observability, and infrastructure automation. Share expertise in AWS, IaC, CI/CD, and security best practices. Foster a culture of continuous learning through peer reviews, knowledge sharing, and hands-on technical leadership.
• Improve Team Processes: Engage fully in the team's agile ceremonies, retrospectives, and discussions. Help evolve infrastructure and platform team practices such as automated testing for infrastructure, pipeline as code, and progressive delivery to improve feedback loops and system maintainability.

Within 6 months:

Lead infrastructure initiatives, improve developer experience, and serve as a key technical resource across teams. Elevate developer productivity through automation, tooling, and security enablement. Act as a technical resource for the team.

• Ownership: Fully own and improve key infrastructure components, such as IaC libraries, CI/CD pipelines, bootstrapping modules and monitoring tools. Identify and implement enhancements to security controls, reliability, observability, or cost-efficiency improvements within our AWS infrastructure stack.
• Developer Enablement in Practice: Introduce and refine internal tooling, templates, and scripts to eliminate friction in local development, and deployment. Establish self-service workflows that empower developers without compromising security.
• Lead by Example: Continue engaging in pair programming and mobbing to lead important initiatives while fostering strong collaboration across the organization. Document and advocate for DevOps best practices across the engineering organization.
• Incremental Delivery: Help the team break down complex work into vertical slices, ensuring incremental value delivery and fast feedback loops.
• Mentorship & Team Growth: Mentor engineers across teams and collaborate with engineering managers to help support hiring efforts in Mexico. Act as a connector between engineers, helping align best practices across teams.
• Enablement & Standards: Partner with engineering teams to document golden paths for infrastructure and deployment. Establish patterns and playbooks that