Senior DevOps Engineer

Thank you for considering Progyny!

Progyny’s mission puts our technology platform in the enviable position of very evident purpose: directly supporting the family building journey of millions of individuals. The DevOps guild members directly support this through the design and support of the automated, repeatable build and deployment of our solutions to ensure an exceptional experience for our members and lowest-friction developer experience.  

This role will join our DevOps organization: a lean experienced team with direct stakeholders in engineering, operations, SREs, security, compliance, etc. Our platform follows the goal of being cloud native with modern patterns, thoughtful selection of technology solutions, a clear eye on security/privacy control considerations among multiple other sibling non-functional considerations. We aspire to provide efficient and reliable GitOps and automation. We are social beings that emphasize communication and collaboration through the mechanisms like practice guilds, peer development, documenting our decisions and plans, and maintaining awareness of industry patterns and practices evolution. 

What you’ll do... 

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will help deliver reliable pipelines and platforms. You are a member of a lean remote team of experienced polyglot engineers adept at software engineering, new technology introduction, and effective collaboration at a distance. You will be responsible for working directly with a pod of engineers to support automated, repeatable build and deploy of solutions and services across our technology platform, with the goals of improving developer experience, automating more quality goal assurance functions, and helping to support the effective team sport that is solutions engineering at Progyny.  

About you... 

• 7+ years in DevOps related role for a moderate-to-large sized software engineering organization 

• Experience with containerized environments and considerations is a must (Helm charts, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) 

• Solid experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) models and Terraform/HCL conventions (control logic, patterns and composition, etc.) 

• 5+ years GitOps automation on common SCM platforms (GitHub, GitLab) 

• Deep experience with Git-flow and code branch management models & considerations (ex: trunk-based vs. Feature-based) 

• 3+ years working with AWS (ex: VPC, IAM, etc.) 

• Proven ability to anticipate CI/CD considerations for distinct platform components and environment constraints (example: Web/SPA vs. Data pipelines) 

• Proven experience with various build and package management solutions and toolchains (ex: Jenkins, GitHub actions, NPM, Maven, PyPi, etc.) 

• Demonstratable knowledge of authentication and authorization access patterns (ex: OIDC, common flows, etc.) 

• Demonstratable networking knowledge (TCP stack, CIDRs, DNS, troubleshooting, etc.) 

• Demonstratable security knowledge (PKI, restricted data, etc.) and …