Bound · 3 hours ago
Senior DevOps Engineer
Ames, IA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior LevelBound is a company dedicated to empowering athletic directors by providing a comprehensive platform for managing various aspects of school athletics and activities. The Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for building, operating, and scaling the infrastructure that supports this platform, ensuring reliability and scalability through modern DevOps practices.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Design, maintain, and evolve Bound’s AWS infrastructure to be secure, scalable, and cost-effective
Own and operate Kubernetes (EKS) clusters, ensuring high availability, performance, and reliability
Manage networking, IAM, security groups, load balancing, and other AWS-native services
Define and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools, with a focus on cdk8s
Implement and maintain GitOps workflows for Kubernetes and infrastructure changes
Ensure all infrastructure changes are version-controlled, reviewed, and auditable
Define, measure, and evolve Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and related SLIs to ensure platform reliability aligns with business expectations
Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting to support SLOs and proactive issue detection
Participate in a shared on-call rotation to respond to incidents and ensure timely resolution
Lead or contribute to incident reviews and postmortems, focusing on root cause analysis and long-term fixes
Partner with engineering teams to improve resiliency, reduce toil, and protect error budgets
Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines to support safe, fast, and repeatable deployments
Work closely with application engineers to streamline local development, deployment, and operational workflows
Help define operational standards and best practices across teams
Partner with engineers, product, and stakeholders to align infrastructure and reliability decisions with business goals
Clearly communicate incidents, risks, and reliability tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences
Advocate for reliability-focused engineering practices across the organization
Qualification
Required
Extensive, hands-on experience with AWS, including services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, ELB/ALB, and CloudWatch
Strong production experience operating Kubernetes, with a focus on Amazon EKS
Experience defining and operating systems against SLOs / SLIs
Experience participating in on-call rotations and incident response for production systems
Proven experience running and supporting production workloads at scale
Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, and identity management
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
Comfort owning systems end-to-end, from design through production support
Preferred
Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD
Familiarity with progressive delivery tools like Kargo
Experience using Sentry and/or Datadog for monitoring, alerting, and observability
Experience with Prometheus and Grafana for metrics, dashboards, and alerting
Strong understanding of Kubernetes networking, security, and deployment patterns
Benefits
Flexible work hours
Unlimited PTO
11 Holidays annually
Retirement savings - up to 3% match
Medical, dental and vision with employer contribution
Company
Bound
Bound is a software platform that helps youth sports and activity directors, from state associations to local clubs, manage what's next for their programs.
Founded in 2018
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Sam Schill
Chief Executive Officer
Brett Cooper
Director of Partnerships
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