Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Overview

Sydecar is on a mission to transform the world of private markets. Our goal is to make these markets more accessible, transparent, and liquid, and we're achieving this by revolutionizing the way investment vehicles are created and executed. At Sydecar, we're not just a platform; we're a trusted partner in venture capital. We're dedicated to simplifying and standardizing the private investing experience, empowering capital allocators to discover and support visionary entrepreneurs who are shaping the future.

Our platform is designed with ease and efficiency in mind. We take care of all the behind-the-scenes tasks, from automating banking, ensuring compliance, handling contracts, managing taxes, to streamlining reporting. This leaves investors the freedom to concentrate on what matters most: making valuable deals and nurturing meaningful relationships.

Join us at Sydecar, as we lead the charge in revolutionizing private investing.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer (Platform Engineer) to own our cloud infrastructure, developer experience, and core security and compliance foundations. This is a direction setting role for someone comfortable being the primary DevOps person in a small team. You will work closely with product and internal tooling engineers to make environments consistent and reliable, and you will act as our main contact with Google Cloud. If you like creating standards, automating repetitive work, and helping a startup move faster, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and maintain production and other infrastructures in Google Cloud using Terraform
• Standardize Docker based workflows so services run consistently across development, staging, and production
• Define and document the path from laptop to cloud so engineers can self serve environment setup and deployments
• Configure and maintain networking and security including VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, DNS, and IAM or service accounts
• Support core services such as Postgres and Redis including connectivity, access management, backups or snapshots, and basic performance
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting so issues are visible, auditable, and easy to troubleshoot
• Automate repetitive infrastructure tasks with scripts and tooling to increase engineering velocity
• Work with engineering on SOC 2 related infrastructure controls and configuration hygiene
• Own communication with Google Cloud support or consultants and drive recommended changes to completion
• Produce and maintain runbooks, standards, and infrastructure documentation so knowledge is shared

Required Qualifications

• 7 or more years in DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure, or Platform roles
• Experience in a startup or high growth environment where you owned outcomes and operated with limited direction
• Strong hands on experience with Terraform in production, including modules and environment separation
• Strong hands on experience with Docker and container based development
• Cloud experience with GCP preferred, or strong AWS or Azure experience with willingness to complete GCP training or certification in 1 to 2 months
• Working knowledge of Postgres in cloud environments including networking, access, and backups
• Solid networking fundamentals including VPCs, firewalls, load balancers, and DNS
• Comfort with Unix or Linux systems and shell scripting
• Ability to work in some isolation while still providing leadership and clear guidance to application engineers

Our Tech Stack

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with flexibility for strong AWS or Azure candidates who can ramp on GCP quickly
• Terraform for Infrastructure as Code
• Docker as the container standard
• PostgreSQL