Senior DevOps Engineer

• As a Lyra Sr. DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure, as well as supporting our software delivery pipelines
• We care deeply about making a difference in people’s lives, and we hope you do too!
• You will focus heavily on modernizing our platform tooling, evolving our production Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) footprint, and optimizing our managed cloud datastores (AWS RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache)
• Design and implement infrastructure using tools such as Terraform/OpenTofu, Python, and Kubernetes onto our AWS cloud platform
• Collaborate closely with the engineering, data science and machine learning teams to continually implement, maintain, and improve our cloud infrastructure and developer experience
• Platform & Tooling Focus: Apply a software product mindset to build, maintain, and abstract internal platform tools, developer templates, and self-service CI/CD pipelines
• Automate infrastructure and operations tasks using scripting languages
• Security & Governance: Operationalize cloud security by enforcing continuous vulnerability remediation, strict IAM policies, and compliance guardrails directly within platform pipelines
• Monitor and analyze systems and network performance, and implement proactive measures to ensure the availability and reliability of our infrastructure
• Enforcing IAM processes and tools that ensure compliance with data privacy and protection regulations
• Working alongside engineers to ensure that security vulnerabilities are remediated

Benefits

• Full access to Lyra’s mental health services for employees and their eligible dependents—at no charge
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits, and free monthly membership to One Medical
• Four weeks of vacation and paid holidays
• Monthly tech stipend
• 401k and equity options- We’re looking for an exceptional Sr. DevOps Engineer to join our team
• Strong IaC Practices: Demonstrated experience building modular, reusable Terraform or OpenTofu infrastructure
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) a must, especially many of the following:
• 5+ years in a DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure role heavily focused on public cloud environments (AWS required)
• Deep EKS & Container Expertise: Hands-on experience administering, scaling, and troubleshooting multi-tenant Kubernetes (EKS) environments in production
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team, and excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Experience developing CI/CD pipelines with tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and/or ArgoCD
• EKS, SageMaker, EC2, ECS, VPC, IAM, KMS, RDS, ELB/ALB, MWAA, Identity Center
• Experience building and maintaining templates and packages with Helm
• Strong coding skills in Python, Go, or Bash to write automation scripts, tools, and integrations for internal development teams
• If you love creating frictionless experiences for developers and automating core infrastructure, this role is for you
• Experience with modern cluster autoscaling strategies (e.g., Karpenter) and cloud cost optimization techniques
• Proficiency with logging analysis, performance monitoring, and performance tuning
• Familiarity with developer self-service tooling or internal developer portals
• Background supporting ML/Data Science workloads in cloud environments (e.g., SageMaker integrations, feature stores)