Sr. DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Colorado (Remote)

Salary Range: $125k - $150k

About Forta Solutions

At Forta Solutions, we are committed to redefining mortgage Warehouse Lending technology and delivering exceptional service to our clients. Our platform supports complex funding, collateral, treasury, settlement, reporting, and operational workflows for Warehouse Lenders and their Originators.

We are looking for a strong Senior DevOps Engineer who can help shape the future of Warehouse Lending technology by working closely product leadership, engineering, QA, and implementation teams.

Position Summary

Forta Solutions is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, secure, and maintain our AWS infrastructure and software delivery systems. This role will improve platform reliability, deployment efficiency, security, scalability, observability, and cost management. The ideal candidate has strong AWS and cloud-networking expertise, experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD automation, and practical knowledge of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering principles.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain secure, scalable AWS infrastructure across multi-account environments, including networking, access controls, high availability, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.

• Build reusable infrastructure components and platform standards supporting reliability, security, observability, and cost efficiency.

• Develop containerized and serverless environments using technologies such as Amazon ECS, Fargate, Lambda, SQS, and EventBridge.

• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or comparable platforms, incorporating automated testing, security controls, validation, rollback, and progressive delivery.

• Develop infrastructure as code with Terraform, Terragrunt, and related automation tools.

• Automate operational processes to reduce manual work, configuration drift, deployment risk, and operational toil.

• Improve monitoring, logging, tracing, alerts, service-health measures, and reliability objectives using Datadog or comparable platforms.

• Troubleshoot production issues, participate in incident response, and contribute to post-incident reviews and corrective actions.

• Apply cloud-security best practices, including least-privilege access, encryption, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation.

• Identify and implement AWS cost-optimization opportunities.

• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and engineering standards.

• Collaborate with application teams, participate in technical reviews, and mentor colleagues.

On-Call and Deployment Responsibilities

• Participate in a shared on-call and deployment rotation, including production support and incident response.

• Support planned client deployments that may require evening or weekend availability.

• Occasionally adjust regular working hours for deployments outside normal business hours, including approximately one weekend day per month.

Qualifications

We value varied combinations of technical experience and do not expect candidates to have worked with every technology listed.

• Approximately 7+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, SRE, or a related field supporting production systems.

• Strong AWS expertise, including cloud networking, security, and infrastructure management.

• Experience with CI/CD, Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools, and automation.

• Experience with containerized or serverless applications, observability, and incident response.

• Strong troubleshooting, communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills.

• Familiarity with GitLab, Terragrunt, Datadog, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, or comparable technologies is a plus.

What We Offer

• Comprehensive benefits plan, including medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Generous flexible time off policy

• Opportunities for growth and professional development

Application Process

Application Deadline: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

How to Apply: Add your information here and click "Submit Application."

The company is unable to provide sponsorship now or in the future. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

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