Overview

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer - Applications. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Right Balance provides top-tier technology talent for innovative companies in the US. We’re in the top 50 companies to watch in LA.

Client Engagement Details

Our client is one of the world's leading entertainment companies, representing top talent across entertainment, sports, and media on a global scale, spanning film, television, music, sports, fashion, and digital media. They're building the next generation of internal platforms that power how agents and teams manage relationships, deals, and opportunities across the global entertainment industry, making performance, availability, security, and observability mission-critical.

You'll own the infrastructure and reliability environment end-to-end, including cloud resources, Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and infrastructure security. The company is currently migrating from a legacy platform to a modern cloud-native environment, and you'll work across both the new platform and the ongoing migration as systems transition module by module.

The engineering organization is being built largely from the ground up, a strong opportunity for someone who enjoys greenfield infrastructure work and wants to help shape how the engineering team builds and ships software.

What You'll Do:

• Own and evolve Azure infrastructure using Terraform, including networking, compute, managed services, and secrets.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters and Helm-based deployments for a distributed microservices platform.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
• Define and improve observability across metrics, logging, alerting, and tracing.
• Lead incident response, drive resolution, and implement reliability improvements following postmortems.
• Manage PostgreSQL infrastructure, including backups, replication, failover, migrations, and performance.
• Collaborate closely with engineers to improve local development environments and deployment workflows.
• Implement and enforce security best practices across infrastructure and applications.
• Support the migration from a legacy .NET/MSSQL platform to a modern cloud-native stack.
• Build developer tooling and automation that reduce friction and improve engineering productivity.

Availability: Full-time.

What’s in it for you

1. Learn and evolve your skills using the latest and greatest technology tools in a rapidly growing company.
2. Learn from the best people around you. We constantly challenge the status quo and invent new ways of building a great product.
3. 100% remote. Work anywhere, whether it is remotely in the comfort of your home, in a shared co-working space, in an RV on the beach, or while being a nomad in another country.
4. Work on challenging problems, innovate, and positively impact many people's lives while having fun doing it.

Required Qualifications

• Upper-intermediate to fluent speaking and writing English. Able to have a real-time conversation.
• 5+ years of DevOps, Platform Engineering, or similar infrastructure experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including AKS, Azure AD, managed databases, blob storage, and networking.
• Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure as code at scale.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and Helm.
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL, including operational management, migrations, and performance tuning.
• Solid understanding of observability tools and practices such as Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent.
• Experience with incident response and implementing reliability improvements based on postmortems.
• Strong experience with Docker and container image management.
• Familiarity with secrets management tools such as Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, or equivalent.
• Comfortable working in environments where systems and processes are still evolving.

Nice to haves

• Experience supporting large-scale legacy application migrations.
• Experience migrating from .NET / Microsoft SQL Server environments to cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with gRPC and distributed microservices.
• Experience supporting Next.js applications and modern web platforms.
• Experience building platform engineering or developer productivity tooling.
• Experience working in greenfield infrastructure environments.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development and engineering workflows.
• Experience establishing DevOps standards and practices within a growing engineering organization.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are your typical clients?

The majority of our clients are venture-backed startups at the growth stage. Usually, at this stage, the company already achieved a product-market fit and is looking to expand rapidly. That’s where we bring the best engineering practices, strong architecture, the latest technologies, and consistent processes to help companies scale.

What is the length of your engagements?

Most of our long-term full-time engagements last multiple years. It allows you to evolve your career with the client company taking on more responsibilities.

What’s your company size?

The Right Balance team is 55+ engineers going to 75+ by the end of the year. The current client size team is 1822+ people. The timing is great to be a part of a rapidly growing team making meaningful contributions.

What happens if the engagement is completed?

Most of our engagements are long-term in nature. That said, if the current engagement is ramping down, we’ll present you with more long-term opportunities to transition into.

What are your core values?

Client First: we only win when our clients win. We treat client challenges as our own.

Ownership: we embrace responsibility, taking on challenges, getting them to completion, and enjoying getting things done.

Quality: we’re passionate about achieving quality outcomes by applying meticulous attention to detail.