Lead SRE/DevOps Engineer at Launch Potato

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>WHO ARE WE?</strong></p> <p><a href="https://launchpotato.com/careers?utm_source=greenhouse&amp;utm_medium=jobpost&amp;utm_campaign=careers-back-to-careers" target="_blank">Launch Potato</a> is a profitable digital media company that reaches over 30M+ monthly visitors through brands such as <a href="https://financebuzz.com/?utm_source=greenhouse&amp;utm_medium=jobpost&amp;utm_campaign=careers-to-brand" target="_blank">FinanceBuzz</a>, <a href="https://allaboutcookies.org/?utm_source=greenhouse&amp;utm_medium=jobpost&amp;utm_campaign=careers-to-brand" target="_blank">All About Cookies</a>, and<a href="https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/?utm_source=greenhouse&amp;utm_medium=jobpost&amp;utm_campaign=careers-to-brand" target="_blank"> OnlyInYourState</a>.</p> <p>As The Discovery and Conversion Company, our mission is to connect consumers with the world’s leading brands through data-driven content and technology.</p> <p>Headquartered in South Florida with a remote-first team spanning over 15 countries, we’ve built a high-growth, high-performance culture where speed, ownership, and measurable impact drive success.</p> <p><strong>WHY JOIN US?</strong></p> <p>At Launch Potato, you’ll accelerate your career by owning outcomes, moving fast, and driving impact with a global team of high-performers.&nbsp;</p></div><p><strong>MUST HAVE:</strong></p> <ul> <li>5+ years of production AWS infrastructure experience with deep Terraform expertise.</li> <li>Hands-on experience building the SRE function from scratch and had complete ownership.</li> <li>Experience with a multi-site company where PaaS or microservices are required.</li> <li>CI/CD pipeline ownership in one or more previous roles.</li> <li>PagerDuty experience and standing up an on-call rotation.</li> </ul> <p><strong>EXPERIENCE: </strong>5+ years hands-on with AWS, Terraform, CI/CD pipeline ownership, and SRE tooling (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, PagerDuty or equivalent) in a production environment.</p> <p><strong>YOUR ROLE</strong></p> <p>Own and evolve Launch Potato's cloud infrastructure, CI/CD platform, and compliance posture. Build the SRE function from the ground up so product teams can ship faster without compromising reliability, security, or cost control.</p> <p><strong>OUTCOMES</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Stand up the SRE practice from scratch: </strong>on-call rotation, PagerDuty configuration, SLA/SLO definitions for core infrastructure services, runbook library, and observability dashboards that tie site performance to business metrics.</li> <li><strong>Complete the AWS multi-account migration: </strong>move production workloads to an isolated account with zero unplanned downtime.</li> <li><strong>Deliver SOC 2 Type I audit-ready infrastructure evidence package: </strong>own the technical controls implementation end-to-end.</li> <li><strong>Version and publish the Terraform module library: </strong>(30+ modules) to a private registry to eliminate ad hoc git consumption by product teams.</li> <li><strong>Implement automated deployment rollback for ECS and Lambda:</strong> gate production on integration test passage.</li> <li><strong>Stand up monthly cost reporting to leadership: </strong>budget anomaly detection, savings plan recommendations, spend by service/team/environment.</li> </ul> <p><strong>COMPETENCIES</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Ownership orientation: </strong>You don't wait to be assigned a problem. If something is broken, undocumented, or a risk, you flag it and fix it. If the runbooks don't exist yet, you write them.</li> <li><strong>Documentation discipline: </strong>You write things down. Runbooks, decision rationale, architecture patterns, incident post-mortems. The next person should be able to understand your work without asking you.</li> <li><strong>Cost consciousness: </strong>You think about the business impact of infrastructure decisions. You can explain a spending anomaly to a CFO in plain language. You know what things cost before you build them.</li> <li><strong>Calm under pressure: </strong>Production incidents happen. You triage clearly, communicate proactively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and run a tight post-mortem without blame. You've been woken up at 3am. You can handle it.</li> <li><strong>Cross-functional communication: </strong>You can work with product engineers, legal/compliance, and executive leadership in the same week without switching communication modes awkwardly. You speak both engineer and business.</li> <li><strong>Proactive reliability: </strong>A good SRE reacts to outages. A great SRE catches degradation before it becomes an outage. You build alerting against the patterns, not just the failures.</li> </ul> <p><strong>TOTAL COMPENSATION</strong></p> <p>Base salary is set according to market rates for the nearest major metro and varies based on Launch Potato’s Levels Framework. Your compensation package includes a base salary, profit-sharing bonus, and competitive benefits. Launch Potato is a performance-driven company, which means once you are hired, future increases will be based on company and personal performance, not annual cost of living adjustments.</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>Want to accelerate your career? Apply now!</strong></p> <p>Since day one, we've been committed to having a diverse, inclusive team and culture. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity company. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion.&nbsp;</p> <p>We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.</p></div>