Resource Innovations
Lead AWS DevOps Engineer
Resource Innovations, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Overview
Resource Innovations is seeking an AWS DevOps Engineer. This remote position requires occasional in-person office meetings for candidates residing in one of the following metro areas: San Francisco, CA; Chicago, IL; Phoenix, AZ; Denver, CO; or Madison, WI. The role will work on a wide range of SaaS products on the AWS platform that fundamentally changes how utilities manage business processes and customer initiatives for energy efficiency, renewable energy, demands response, and conservation. We are looking for candidates who want to make an impact on the world and are passionate about product craftsmanship.
Base pay range $135,000.00/yr - $150,000.00/yr
Responsibilities
Architecture & Strategy
Design, build, and evolve cloud infrastructure and DevOps solutions to support our SaaS products.
Define and continuously improve standards for infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and operational processes.
Lead the team in adopting modern practices like containerization, serverless computing, and Infrastructure as Code.
Drive the roadmap for DevOps tooling, automation, and scalability improvements.
Hands-On Engineering
Build and maintain highly available, secure, and scalable cloud environments.
Develop and integrate next-generation CI/CD pipelines, supporting automated deployments and testing.
Implement configuration management, monitoring, alerting, and logging to ensure proactive issue detection.
Optimize systems for performance, cost efficiency, and reliability.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and deployment issues in real time.
Technical Leadership & Collaboration
Act as a technical lead and mentor for the DevOps team — review designs, guide implementation, and share best practices.
Work closely with engineering and product teams to support new features, releases, and operational improvements.
Participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, and cross-team discussions to prioritize DevOps initiatives.
Foster a culture of automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
8+ years of hands-on DevOps experience with AWS cloud.
Proven experience leading or mentoring a DevOps team.
Deep technical expertise in:
AWS services: EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Beanstalk, CloudFront, Route 53, Glacier, Lambda, EventBridge.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation.
CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Git, automation pipelines.
Linux administration and scripting: Bash, Python.
Security and compliance: ITIL, NIST, SOC2.
Monitoring and logging: Grafana, CloudWatch, log analysis.
Messaging/queueing systems: SQS, SNS, RabbitMQ, SES.
Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS).
Experience with serverless architectures.
Ability to design infrastructure from scratch and scale existing platforms.
Strong problem-solving skills and adaptability to new technologies.
Nice to Have: Experience with AWS Transfer Family; Hands-on experience in architecting modern SaaS infrastructure.
Benefits We also offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes three weeks of paid vacation per year; paid holidays; a 401(k)-retirement plan with employer matching; health, dental and vision insurance; and other supplemental benefits.
About Resource Innovations Resource Innovations (RI) is a women-led energy transformation firm focused on impact. Building on our expertise in energy efficiency, we're expanding our portfolio of clean energy solutions to guide utilities through increasingly complex, connected challenges. Load flexibility. Electrification. Carbon reduction. We are leading the charge to power change.
Resource Innovations is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, marital status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected status. In addition to federal law requirements, Resource Innovations complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company does work.
Employment details
Employment type: Full-time
Seniority level: Not Applicable
Industries: Utilities
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Base pay range $135,000.00/yr - $150,000.00/yr
Responsibilities
Architecture & Strategy
Design, build, and evolve cloud infrastructure and DevOps solutions to support our SaaS products.
Define and continuously improve standards for infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and operational processes.
Lead the team in adopting modern practices like containerization, serverless computing, and Infrastructure as Code.
Drive the roadmap for DevOps tooling, automation, and scalability improvements.
Hands-On Engineering
Build and maintain highly available, secure, and scalable cloud environments.
Develop and integrate next-generation CI/CD pipelines, supporting automated deployments and testing.
Implement configuration management, monitoring, alerting, and logging to ensure proactive issue detection.
Optimize systems for performance, cost efficiency, and reliability.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and deployment issues in real time.
Technical Leadership & Collaboration
Act as a technical lead and mentor for the DevOps team — review designs, guide implementation, and share best practices.
Work closely with engineering and product teams to support new features, releases, and operational improvements.
Participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, and cross-team discussions to prioritize DevOps initiatives.
Foster a culture of automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
8+ years of hands-on DevOps experience with AWS cloud.
Proven experience leading or mentoring a DevOps team.
Deep technical expertise in:
AWS services: EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Beanstalk, CloudFront, Route 53, Glacier, Lambda, EventBridge.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation.
CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Git, automation pipelines.
Linux administration and scripting: Bash, Python.
Security and compliance: ITIL, NIST, SOC2.
Monitoring and logging: Grafana, CloudWatch, log analysis.
Messaging/queueing systems: SQS, SNS, RabbitMQ, SES.
Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS).
Experience with serverless architectures.
Ability to design infrastructure from scratch and scale existing platforms.
Strong problem-solving skills and adaptability to new technologies.
Nice to Have: Experience with AWS Transfer Family; Hands-on experience in architecting modern SaaS infrastructure.
Benefits We also offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes three weeks of paid vacation per year; paid holidays; a 401(k)-retirement plan with employer matching; health, dental and vision insurance; and other supplemental benefits.
About Resource Innovations Resource Innovations (RI) is a women-led energy transformation firm focused on impact. Building on our expertise in energy efficiency, we're expanding our portfolio of clean energy solutions to guide utilities through increasingly complex, connected challenges. Load flexibility. Electrification. Carbon reduction. We are leading the charge to power change.
Resource Innovations is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, marital status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected status. In addition to federal law requirements, Resource Innovations complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company does work.
Employment details
Employment type: Full-time
Seniority level: Not Applicable
Industries: Utilities
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