Sr DevOps Engineer
SimpliSafe · Boston, MA
$114,700–$152,900from the description
Jul 15, 2026
Boston, MA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level infrastructure and DevOps engineering role focused on building and maintaining cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment tooling on AWS. The work involves infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, container orchestration via EKS, and supporting a microservices environment running Node.js, Python, and other languages. Suited to engineers with strong automation instincts, a security-conscious mindset, and experience operating in agile, cloud-native teams.
Senior level · Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 340 people in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 250–440
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $169,742 (middle half $134,780–$187,781). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The role is titled 'Senior DevOps Engineer' and focuses on building and supporting cloud infrastructure tooling and CI/CD pipelines — the primary work is writing and shipping automation code (IaC, build/deploy tooling), which maps more naturally to Software Developers (15-1252) than to Systems Administrators (15-1244). The runner-up is 15-1244 given the infrastructure operations framing.
The 'Our Stack' section lists specific technologies (EKS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, Route53, Lambda, Grafana, Node.js, Python, MySQL, Angular, Drupal/PHP, C++, RabbitMQ) as context for the team's environment rather than as hard gates on candidates. These are marked preferred. Angular, Drupal/PHP, and C++ were omitted from skills as they appear to be application-layer context with no expectation the DevOps engineer owns them.
Containerized/microservices experience is explicitly called 'a plus' in the posting, so Kubernetes is marked preferred.
The role is hybrid (two in-office days per week in Boston), not fully remote.
No minimum years of experience are stated at the role level; no degree requirement is stated.
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