Senior Systems Engineer
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Fueled is a leading digital strategy, design, and engineering agency with a team of over 300 people. They have designed and built hundreds of digital products and experiences for brands like Google, Apple, The New York Times, ESPN, Victoria’s Secret, MGM Resorts, Albertsons, and CLEAR.
What you will do:
- Own cloud infrastructure end-to-end: You will architect, deploy, and manage highly available environments across AWS and Azure using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and CDK, and lead production Kubernetes workloads in EKS/AKS — including upgrades, networking, and autoscaling.
- Serve as the Linux subject matter expert: You will own system builds, configure and troubleshoot core services like NGINX, MariaDB, and Redis, and drive performance, security, and reliability from the kernel up.
- Operate the data and caching tier: You will run and scale MariaDB/Galera clusters alongside Redis, Memcached, and Elasticsearch, applying performance tuning and IaC-driven workflows to keep everything fast and resilient.
- Engineer CI/CD and automation: You will build and tune pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps, and replace repetitive operational work with robust Python and Bash scripting that accelerates developer velocity.
- Lead observability, security, and performance: You will evolve monitoring across metrics, logs, and traces, harden infrastructure security, participate in incident response and the 24/7 on-call rotation, and lead load-testing efforts that drive measurable platform improvements.
What you will achieve:
- Week 1: You will seamlessly integrate with our engineering teams, auditing existing AWS/Azure architectures and CI/CD pipelines to understand our baseline operations and client workloads.
- Month 1: You will assist with the 24/7 support on-call rotation, take ownership of core infrastructure deployments, standardize IaC practices, and begin tuning our Kubernetes clusters and Linux systems for optimal performance.
- Month 6: You will have fully optimized and automated key deployment workflows, established highly available data tiers, and driven measurable improvements in security, observability, and overall platform reliability.
- Team Impact: You will act as a critical bridge between systems and application teams, establishing robust platform engineering standards that support complex client workloads, including high-scale, highly available WordPress and headless setups.
- Career Growth: You will establish yourself as a vital DevOps leader within the agency, shaping our multi-cloud strategy, heavily influencing infrastructure design, and elevating the technical standards of our operations.
About you:
- You are a senior cloud infrastructure operator. You bring demonstrated senior-level experience in platform engineering or DevOps at scale or in multi-tenant environments, with strong hands-on AWS and Azure (multi-cloud preferred; GCP and Oracle Cloud a plus).
- You are a Linux and IaC expert. You can set up, tune, troubleshoot, and harden Linux systems at a deep level, and you’ve taken Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or CDK projects from greenfield through long-term management.
- You run production Kubernetes and data services. You have proven experience operating EKS/AKS — upgrades, networking, troubleshooting, Kubernetes PodWeaver — and managing production-grade NGINX, MariaDB/Galera, Redis/Memcached, and Elasticsearch.
- You automate relentlessly and ship pipelines that scale. You write advanced Python and/or Bash, and you’ve built and tuned CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab, or similar tools with a strong grasp of modern observability tooling and security best practices.
- You communicate clearly and show up for the team. You write excellent documentation, work well with clients, bridge systems and application teams (including high-scale, highly available WordPress hosting and headless setups), and are available for a 24/7 support rotation.
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Fueled
View Company ProfileFueled is a premier, enterprise-grade digital product agency engineered to orchestrate massive-scale mobile applications and cutting-edge digital ecosystems. Operating as a highly integrated technical design hub, the company eliminates the operational friction of traditional software development by seamlessly deploying advanced agile methodologies, elite UX/UI design architectures, and robust cloud-native engineering. Moving beyond rigid legacy web agencies, Fueled empowers high-growth startups, established global brands, and enterprise organizations to dynamically synthesize their product vision into market-leading digital experiences. Under the hood, their sophisticated development frameworks natively handle complex integrations, extreme user scale, and rigorous performance optimization across iOS, Android, and web platforms. What sets Fueled apart is its uncompromising dedication to frictionless digital orchestration; by bridging the gap between empathic human-centered design and elite software engineering, the firm empowers clients to radically accelerate their time-to-market, maximize user retention, and build an unassailable foundation in the modern digital economy.
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