DevOps Engineer
Remote US/CAN
Imagine having an enterprise-grade AppStore at work — one that ensures you can easily search, request, and gain access to any app you need, precisely when you need it. No more long waiting times with outstanding IT requests. Lumos is solving the app and access management challenges for organizations of all sizes through a unified platform. Our fast-growing startup is pioneering the way to untangle the complex web of app and access management by building the critical infrastructure that defines relationships between app, identities and data.
Why Lumos?
- Jump on a Rocketship: Since launching out of stealth mode just over 2 years ago, our team has grown from 20 to ~100 people and our customer base has 10x’ed with companies like GitHub, MongoDB and Major League Baseball!
- Build with Renowned Investor Backing: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) backed us since the beginning and we've raised over $65m from Scale, Neo, Greg Brockman (President at OpenAI), Phil Venables (CISO at Google), and others.
- Thrive in a Unique Culture: You’ll join an early-stage company where you have actual influence on the trajectory of the company. We deeply care about our people and the philosophy we live by - check out our values here.
As a DevOps Engineer at Lumos, your mission is to enhance and maintain our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, operational efficiency, and developer experience. You will work closely with development, security, and operations teams to drive automation, reliability, and scalability while ensuring high availability and security across all environments.
✨ Your Responsibilities
Infrastructure Automation & Reliability
- Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) to ensure repeatability and scalability.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to proactively detect and resolve issues.
- Ensure high availability and disaster recovery mechanisms are in place.
CI/CD Pipeline Optimization
- Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to accelerate software delivery.
- Automate deployment and rollback processes for minimal downtime.
- Enforce best practices for build, test, and release automation.
Performance & Cost Efficiency
- Optimize cloud resource utilization to balance performance and cost.
- Implement auto-scaling, load balancing, and caching strategies for improved efficiency.
- Continuously evaluate and recommend cost-effective infrastructure solutions.
Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
- Work closely with engineering teams to align DevOps strategies with business goals.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement through automation and innovation.
- Provide mentorship and training to other engineers on DevOps best practices.
🙌 What We Value
- Technical Expertise:
- Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.).
- Deep knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, etc.).
- Knowledge with build optimization tools/frameworks (poetry, pants/bazel, docker, etc.).
- Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, etc.) and defining SLOs.
- Software Development Expertise:
- Strong bias towards software development with no fear of writing/contributing code to large codebases.
- Comfortable reading, debugging and optimizing large codebases (Python experience preferred).
- Problem Solving & Troubleshooting:
- Ability to diagnose and resolve infrastructure and performance issues.
- Strong debugging skills across distributed systems and microservices architectures.
- Security & Compliance Awareness:
- Understanding of security principles such as IAM, encryption, network security, and secrets management.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks and security tooling (e.g., Wiz, Vault, Falco, AWS Security Hub).
- Collaboration & Communication:
- Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, security, and product teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to document and share knowledge effectively.
- Experience in an agile development environment and ability to contribute to DevOps culture.
💰Pay Range
$160,000 - $190,000. Note that this range is a good faith estimate of likely pay for this role; upon hire, the pay may differ due to skill and/or level of experience.
💸 Benefits and Perks:
- 💯 Remote work culture (+/-4 hours Pacific Time)
- ⛑ Medical, Vision, & Dental coverage covered by Lumos
- 🛩 Company and team bonding trips throughout the year fully covered by Lumos
- 💻 Optimal WFH setup to set you up for success
- 🌴 Unlimited PTO, with minimum time off to make sure you are rested and able to be at your best
- 👶🏽 Up to 16 weeks for expecting parents
- 💰 Wellness stipend to keep you awesome and healthy
- 🏦 401k matching plan
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