Senior Dev Ops Engineer

Pango Group helps customers monitor, manage, and protect against the risks associated with their identities and personal information in a digital world. Backed by WndrCo, Warburg Pincus and General Catalyst, Pango Group is dedicated to creating the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of industry-leading cybersecurity solutions. Our vision is to become THE go-to resource for every cyber protection need individuals may face - today and in the future. 

Join us for the ride!

Job Overview: 

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong background in Cloud Architecture. In this role, you will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of cloud-based infrastructure and DevOps pipelines, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across all environments. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to support and enhance our AWS infrastructure, as well as play a key role in defining and executing the architectural vision for our cloud-based solutions.  This position requires expertise in automation, cloud services, continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD), and containerization technologies. You will work collaboratively with development, QA, and operations teams to streamline processes and improve overall system reliability and performance

Day to Day:

• Cloud Architecture & Design:
• Lead the design and architecture of highly available, scalable, and secure AWS environments.
• Define infrastructure as code (IaC) patterns and best practices for AWS services, including EC2, ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, S3, VPC, RDS, EKS, Kafka, ElasticSearch and more.
• Implement cost optimization strategies while ensuring high performance and reliability.
• Drive automation and CI/CD pipeline development for seamless deployment workflows.
• Implement a strategy around production logging/observability and tooling/automation.
• DevOps Leadership:
• Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and continuous integration/deployment pipelines.
• Build and maintain robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for cloud resources.
• Work closely with development teams to integrate DevOps practices and tools to streamline the deployment process.
• Collaboration & Mentorship:
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including development, QA, and operations to ensure that infrastructure and application services meet the organization’s needs.
• Mentor junior engineers, helping to grow the team’s technical capabilities and promote best practices in cloud-native architectures.
• Provide leadership and guidance on the use of modern DevOps tools and practices.
• Security & Compliance:
• Ensure that all cloud infrastructure adheres to security best practices, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and network security controls.
• Lead efforts in maintaining compliance with relevant standards and regulations (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA).
• Incident Response & Troubleshooting:
• Take ownership of resolving infrastructure-related issues and incidents, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance.
• Lead root cause analysis and contribute to the continuous improvement of systems and processes.
• Research & Innovation:
• Stay up-to-date with AWS innovations and best practices, and evaluate new technologies to drive improvements in infrastructure and automation.
• Champion new solutions to improve system performance, scalability, and reliability.

What you bring to the table:

• Experience:
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps engineering, with at least 5+ years focused on AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Proven experience in designing, architecting, and deploying large-scale systems on AWS.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
• Strong experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS).
• Solid knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, etc.).  Expert understanding of GitHub Actions.
• Deep understanding of AWS services (EC2, ECS, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Kafka, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, Lambda, VPC, IAM, etc.).
• Experience working with both SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB) databases.
• Architectural Experience:
• Experience in designing highly available, fault-tolerant, and