Position Summary
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will serve as a key architect and technical authority for our cloud infrastructure. This is a high-impact role focused on designing resilient systems, automating complex workflows, and ensuring the technical integrity of our deployment ecosystem. You will be responsible for the strategic alignment of our infrastructure with evolving business objectives, ensuring peak performance and security.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Architecture: Partner with developers to design cloud-native architectures, migration strategies, and application optimizations that directly enable business objectives and long-term architectural direction.
• Automation & Pipeline Engineering: Maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) to ensure seamless, automated software delivery.
• Container Ecosystem: Maintain Docker/Container clusters and take a lead role in creating or improving custom Kubernetes tooling and controllers.
• System Reliability & Monitoring: Proactively improve monitoring and alerting systems to ensure high availability. Engineer and improve sophisticated monitoring and alert systems to proactively identify and mitigate system bottlenecks.
• Security & Compliance: Act as a guardian of the ecosystem by maintaining relevance in best practices regarding compliance, privacy, and legal security requirements.
• Technical Troubleshooting: Serve as the final point of escalation for complex technical challenges and participate in on-call support rotation.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Qualifications

Note: We recognize that great candidates come from many backgrounds. If you meet most of these criteria and are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply.

• Cloud Tenure: Comprehensive cloud infrastructure experience (or advanced degree and/or certification) focusing on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Kubernetes Experience: Direct experience building and maintaining Kubernetes and Docker environments.
• Custom K8s Development: Experience building custom Kubernetes controllers or operators to extend platform functionality.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proven track record of automating infrastructure provisioning and managing complex CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Github Actions, Terraform)
• Data Proficiency: Hands-on experience configuring and maintaining multiple database types (e.g. Postgresql, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Thanos).
• Vendor Management: Experience collaborating with and managing external technical partners or third-party service providers
• Coding: Experience in writing software in one or more of the following languages: Python, Shell, Go, or similar
• Security-First Mindset: Familiarity with advanced security protocols, including automated secret management, encryption at rest/transit, and IAM governance.
• Observability Pro: Experience engineering custom monitoring, tracing, and alerting systems that go beyond standard "out-of-the-box" metrics.

Preferred

• Advanced Architecture: Practical experience with Event-Driven Architecture and Complex Event Processing (CEP).
• Microservices Expert: Deep understanding of microservice design patterns, service discovery, and service meshes (e.g., Istio or Linkerd).

What You’ll Get Working at El Toro

• A fast-paced, fun, and open culture with an entrepreneurial spirit
• A work environment headquartered in the heart of Louisville’s NuLu District, with friendly office dogs and leadership that is available and listens
• Competitive medical and health benefits plans
• 100% Company-paid life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability
• 401k plan with company contribution of 3%, once qualified
• 15 PTO days per year, which increases to 20 PTO days after 3 years of full-time employment
• 10 paid company holidays
• On-Site gym & showers for all employees
• The opportunity to join a team where your ideas matter and get implemented quickly

Ready to Apply?

We're excited to hear from you and look forward to receiving your application.

El Toro is committed to actively fostering a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion among its workforce and the broader community. Our culture is defined through our E.P.I.I.C model - Excellence, Persistence, Integrity, Innovation, and Continued Improvement.

El Toro is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our Company. We do not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, ethnicity, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, language, age, disability, political affiliation, sex, socio-economic status, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, arrest record, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.applicable federal, state or local laws. This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.