Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior DevOps Engineer role stands out in the SaaS ecosystem because it sits at the intersection of platform engineering, reliability, and security, all of which directly shape how a product is delivered and operated at scale. With an AWS-centric stack and explicit emphasis on Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and observability, the remit reflects the operational maturity expected of established SaaS platforms where uptime, release quality, and risk management are product concerns, not just infrastructure tasks.
For a long-term SaaS career, the position offers durable experience in building repeatable systems that accelerate delivery across many engineering teams. Work on reusable Terraform patterns, self-service capabilities, and incident response practices maps closely to how modern SaaS organizations standardize deployments and reduce operational toil. The cross-functional partnership with Security, Architecture, and Product also reinforces a key SaaS competency: translating reliability and compliance needs into platform capabilities that developers actually adopt.
This role is best suited to engineers who prefer ownership of foundational systems and enjoy influencing engineering standards through technical leadership and mentoring. It will fit someone who likes balancing hands-on build work with architectural decision-making, and who wants their impact measured through developer experience, resilience, and secure operations.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About The Role
A Place for Mom is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to help scale and evolve our cloud infrastructure, platform engineering capabilities, site reliability practices, and security posture.
As a technical leader, you will drive cloud infrastructure, automation, platform engineering, and reliability initiatives while partnering across Engineering, Security, Architecture, and Product teams. You will help improve developer experience, strengthen security, increase platform reliability, and advance operational excellence.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in AWS, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, cloud security, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), along with a passion for mentoring engineers, solving complex challenges, and leveraging emerging technologies—including AI-powered tooling and automation—to improve engineering productivity.
What You Will Do
- Design, build, and operate scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure across AWS.
- Lead platform engineering initiatives that improve developer productivity, deployment velocity, and operational efficiency.
- Drive Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform and help establish reusable patterns and engineering standards.
- Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and self-service platform capabilities.
- Improve observability through monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response practices.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve system reliability, performance, scalability, and resilience.
- Collaborate with Security teams to strengthen cloud security, infrastructure hardening, access management, and compliance initiatives.
- Evaluate and implement new technologies, automation opportunities, and AI-powered engineering tools.
- Lead technical discussions, architectural reviews, and infrastructure design decisions across teams.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to the growth of DevOps, Platform Engineering, and SRE practices.
What We Are Looking For
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related disciplines.
- Deep hands-on experience designing, operating, and securing AWS environments.
- Strong expertise with Terraform; experience with Terramate or similar infrastructure orchestration tools is a plus.
- Experience managing containerized workloads using ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, or similar platforms.
- Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI, or similar tools.
- Experience with observability platforms such as New Relic, Datadog, CloudWatch, or OpenTelemetry.
- Strong understanding of networking, cloud security, identity management, and distributed systems.
- Experience with automation and scripting using Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams.
- Proven ability to lead infrastructure initiatives and mentor engineers.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience operating large-scale, multi-account AWS environments.
- Experience building internal developer platforms and self-service infrastructure solutions.
- Experience implementing SRE practices including SLOs, SLIs, and reliability metrics.
- Experience supporting cloud security, compliance, and governance initiatives.
- Familiarity with AI-powered developer tooling, automation platforms, or cloud-native AI services.
- AWS Professional, Security Specialty, Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar cloud certifications.
What Success Looks Like
- Drive platform architecture decisions that improve scalability, reliability, security, and developer experience.
- Lead impactful infrastructure and platform initiatives from design through implementation.
- Establish engineering standards, automation, and operational best practices across teams.
- Mentor engineers and elevate the organization's technical capabilities.
- Help shape the long-term cloud, platform, and reliability strategy for A Place for Mom.
Compensation
- Base Salary: $130,000 to $150,000 + 10% Bonus
- Benefits:
- 401(k) plus match
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Paid Time Off
About A Place For Mom
A Place for Mom is the leading platform guiding families through every stage of the aging journey. Together, we simplify the senior care search with free, personalized support — connecting caregivers and their loved ones to vetted providers from our network of 15,000+ senior living communities and home care agencies.
Since 2000, our teams have helped millions of families find care that fits their needs. Behind every referral and resource is a shared goal: to help families focus on what matters most — their love for each other.
We’re proud to be a mission-driven company where every role contributes to improving lives. Caring isn’t just a core value — it’s who we are. Whether you’re supporting families directly or driving innovation behind the scenes, your work at A Place for Mom makes a real difference.
Our Employees Live The Company Values Every Day
- Mission Over Me: We find purpose in helping caregivers and their senior loved ones while approaching our work with empathy.
- Do Hard Things: We are energized by solving challenging problems and see it as an opportunity to grow.
- Drive Outcomes as a Team: We each own the outcome but can only achieve it as a team.
- Win The Right Way: We see organizational integrity as the foundation for how we operate.
- Embrace Change: We innovate and constantly evolve.
Additional Information
A Place for Mom has recently become aware of the fraudulent use of our name on job postings and via recruiting emails that are illegitimate and not in any way associated with us. APFM will never ask you to provide sensitive personal information as part of the recruiting process, such as your social security number; send you any unsolicited job offers or employment contracts; require any fees, payments, or access to financial accounts; and/or extend an offer without conducting an interview.
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All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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