About the Role A Place for Mom is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to help scale and evolve our cloud infrastructure, platform engineering capabilities, site reliability practices, and security posture. As a technical leader, you will drive cloud infrastructure, automation, platform engineering, and reliability initiatives while partnering across Engineering, Security, Architecture, and Product teams. You will help improve developer experience, strengthen security, increase platform reliability, and advance operational excellence. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in AWS, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, cloud security, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), along with a passion for mentoring engineers, solving complex challenges, and leveraging emerging technologies—including AI-powered tooling and automation—to improve engineering productivity. What You Will Do: - Design, build, and operate scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure across AWS. - Lead platform engineering initiatives that improve developer productivity, deployment velocity, and operational efficiency. - Drive Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform and help establish reusable patterns and engineering standards. - Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and self-service platform capabilities. - Improve observability through monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response practices. - Partner with engineering teams to improve system reliability, performance, scalability, and resilience. - Collaborate with Security teams to strengthen cloud security, infrastructure hardening, access management, and compliance initiatives. - Evaluate and implement new technologies, automation opportunities, and AI-powered engineering tools. - Lead technical discussions, architectural reviews, and infrastructure design decisions across teams. - Mentor engineers and contribute to the growth of DevOps, Platform Engineering, and SRE practices. What We Are Looking For: - 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related disciplines. - Deep hands-on experience designing, operating, and securing AWS environments. - Strong expertise with Terraform; experience with Terramate or similar infrastructure orchestration tools is a plus. - Experience managing containerized workloads using ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, or similar platforms. - Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI, or similar tools. - Experience with observability platforms such as New Relic, Datadog, CloudWatch, or OpenTelemetry. - Strong understanding of networking, cloud security, identity management, and distributed systems. - Experience with automation and scripting using Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages. - Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams. - Proven ability to lead infrastructure initiatives and mentor engineers. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience operating large-scale, multi-account AWS environments. - Experience building internal developer platforms and self-service infrastructure solutions. - Experience implementing SRE practices including SLOs, SLIs, and reliability metrics. - Experience supporting cloud security, compliance, and governance initiatives. - Familiarity with AI-powered developer tooling, automation platforms, or cloud-native AI services. - AWS Professional, Security Specialty, Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar cloud certifications. What Success Looks Like: - Drive platform architecture decisions that improve scalability, reliability, security, and developer experience. - Lead impactful infrastructure and platform initiatives from design through implementation. - Establish engineering standards, automation, and operational best practices across teams. - Mentor engineers and elevate the organization's technical capabilities. - Help shape the long-term cloud, platform, and reliability strategy for A Place for Mom. Compensation: - Base Salary: $150,000 to $180,000 + 10% Bonus - Benefits: - 401(k) plus match - Dental insurance - Health insurance - Vision Insurance - Paid Time Off #LI-DC1 #LI-REMOTE About A Place for Mom A Place for Mom is the leading platform guiding families through every stage of the aging journey. Together, we simplify the senior care search with free, personalized support — connecting caregivers and their loved ones to vetted providers from our network of 15,000+ senior living communities and home care agencies. Since 2000, our teams have helped millions of families find care that fits their needs. Behind every referral and resource is a shared goal: to help families focus on what matters most — their love for each other. We’re proud to be a mission-driven company where every role contributes to improving lives. Caring isn’t just a core value — it’s who we are. Whether you’re supporting families directly or driving innovation behind the scenes, your work at A Place for Mom makes a real difference. Our employees live the company values every day: - Mission Over Me: We find purpose in helping caregivers and their senior loved ones while approaching our work with empathy. - Do Hard Things: We are energized by solving challenging problems and see it as an opportunity to grow. - Drive Outcomes as a Team: We each own the outcome but can only achieve it as a team. - Win The Right Way: We see organizational integrity as the foundation for how we operate. - Embrace Change: We innovate and constantly evolve. Additional Information: A Place for Mom has recently become aware of the fraudulent use of our name on job postings and via recruiting emails that are illegitimate and not in any way associated with us. APFM will never ask you to provide sensitive personal information as part of the recruiting process, such as your social security number; send you any unsolicited job offers or employment contracts; require any fees, payments, or access to financial accounts; and/or extend an offer without conducting an interview. If you suspect you are being scammed or have been scammed online, you may report the crime to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and obtain more information regarding online scams at the Federal Trade Commission. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. A Place for Mom uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify http://www.dhs.gov/E-Verify.

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