Alpaca - Senior DevOps Engineer

• 5+ years in a DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or SRE role, with a proven track record operating large-scale, high-availability, high-performance systems in production. • Deep hands-on experience designing cloud architecture on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the primary cloud - landing zones, networking, IAM and high-availability topology. • Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills with Terraform, structuring large codebases across multiple environments, with GitOps as a first principle and least-privilege as a default mindset. • Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines for IaC - automated plan/apply, code review, Policy-as-Code, drift detection and safe rollout. • Solid cloud and L3/L4-L7 networking fundamentals (VPCs, routing, load balancing, DNS, TLS, interconnects) and comfort debugging cross-service connectivity. • Hands-on experience with a modern observability stack - Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, Tempo and Alertmanager - across metrics, logs, traces and alerting. • Operator-level familiarity with data stores such as PostgreSQL and Message Brokers (e.g. RabbitMQ, RedPanda) - able to run and troubleshoot them in production. • A good understanding of SRE practices - SLOs/error budgets, capacity planning - and a Platform-as-a-Product mindset. • Strong grasp of incident management end to end: joining and declaring incidents, structured debugging under pressure, escalation, clear documentation, and post-mortems that drive real change. • Able and willing to take part in a Follow-The-Sun on-call rotation from APAC hours, and to work effectively in a distributed, async-first team with strong written communication. • You can succeed in this role without all of the below, but any of these will help you ramp faster: • Policy-as-code and IaC quality tooling (OPA/Conftest, Checkov, tflint, Atlantis, or similar). • Experience managing Terraform state, module registries and versioning at scale across many teams. • Experience building self-serve developer platforms and internal golden paths (e.g. with Backstage, Tilt, or similar). • Experience with the Alloy collector and with incident tooling such as Rootly. • Working proficiency in Go for automation and tooling. • Strong Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) and container (Docker/containerd) fundamentals. • Security and compliance experience in a regulated environment (SOC 2, secrets management, audit logging). • Familiarity with trading, brokerage, or other regulated fintech domains, and with low-latency systems. • How We Take Care of You: • Competitive Salary & Stock Options • Health Benefits • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500 • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card • Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. • Recruitment Privacy Policy