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BusPatrol is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at this time.\nJob Overview\nAt BusPatrol, we are transforming student transportation safety through modern cloud platforms, secure automation, and real-time operational excellence. We are seeking a hands-on Sr DevOps Engineer to help build and evolve the engineering paved road across infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, cloud security, and developer workflows. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys turning manual, inconsistent processes into reliable systems that make engineering teams faster, safer, and more effective.\nYou will play a key role in BusPatrol’s platform modernization and AI-native SDLC journey. That includes supporting secure, spec-driven engineering workflows, strengthening CI/CD and policy gates, improving delivery reliability, and helping teams adopt repeatable AI-enabled development practices without compromising security, compliance, or production readiness.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, provision, and maintain cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code patterns, reusable modules, and secure platform standards.\n\nHelp define and improve the engineering paved road for service delivery, release patterns, environment consistency, and platform guardrails.\n\nBuild, maintain, and harden CI/CD pipelines that support safe build, test, release, promotion, rollback, and change visibility across services and environments.\n\nImprove pipeline quality gates with automated security scanning, dependency checks, and policy enforcement where appropriate.\n\nStrengthen observability across applications and infrastructure by standardizing logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, and operational runbooks.\n\nPartner with engineering teams to improve reliability, performance, recovery time, and production readiness.\n\nSupport secure AI-enabled software delivery by helping teams operationalize spec-driven workflows, AI-assisted PR practices, automated test generation, and controlled release readiness checks.\n\nContribute to AI delivery systems that are secure, repeatable, observable, and aligned with BusPatrol guardrails for sensitive data, secrets, and production change control.\n\nImprove developer experience through self-service tooling, templates, documentation, and workflow automation that reduce toil and help teams ship with confidence.\n\nHelp make the easiest path the safest and most repeatable one for engineers across product and platform teams.\n\nParticipate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts.\n\nUse operational data and engineering feedback to reduce recurring issues, strengthen controls, and improve the overall delivery system.\n\nCollaborate closely with software engineering, security, architecture, MLOps, and IT teams to deliver scalable internal platforms and high-trust operational practices.\n\nHelp connect day-to-day DevOps execution with BusPatrol’s broader modernization, reliability, and AI adoption goals.\n\nQualifications\n5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, or cloud infrastructure roles\n\nHands-on experience with AWS and modern infrastructure automation practices\n\nExperience with Terraform, AWS CDK, or comparable IaC tooling\n\nExperience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or similar systems\n\nWorking knowledge of observability tooling, monitoring, and production operations\n\nExperience with containerized or distributed application environments\n\nFamiliarity with cloud security controls, secrets handling, branch protections, and secure release workflows\n\nAbility to work effectively with engineers, security partners, and technical stakeholders across teams and time zones\n\nStrong written documentation habits and an automation-first mindset\n\nPreferred qualifications:\nExperience supporting platform modernization from legacy systems toward service-oriented or microservices-based architectures\n\nExperience with policy-as-code, automated security gates, or compliance-oriented controls in engineering workflows\n\nExposure to AI-assisted engineering workflows, spec-driven development, or AI-enabled SDLC tooling\n\nExperience improving developer self-service through templates, paved roads, internal platforms, or golden-path patterns\n\nCore Skills\nInfrastructure as Code\n\nGitOps and release automation\n\nCI/CD pipeline engineering\n\nAWS platform operations\n\nObservability and incident response\n\nCloud security and policy enforcement\n\nDeveloper experience and platform enablement\n\nDocumentation and runbook creation\n\nAI workflow enablement with governance\n\nCross-functional technical collaboration\n\nWhy BusPatrol?\nWho We Are\nAt BusPatrol, safety is not just a priority - it is our mission. As the nation’s most trusted school bus stop-arm technology solution, we serve over 350 school districts, protecting nearly 2 million students across 30,000 buses. We use cutting-edge AI, machine learning, telematics, and cloud-based platforms to improve school bus safety and help communities reduce dangerous driving behavior around children.\nWhat We Offer\nWhen you join BusPatrol, you are not just taking a job. You are joining a mission-driven team dedicated to making a real impact. We offer:\nCompetitive salary and benefits package\n\nUnlimited PTO\n\nA purpose-driven career focused on protecting children and improving public safety\n\nThe chance to participate in BusPatrol’s culture of safety, learning, and teamwork\n\nA team of innovators committed to leveraging AI and smart technology for social good\n\nBe Part of Something Bigger\nThis is a meaningful opportunity to help shape the systems that enable BusPatrol engineering to move faster, operate more securely, and scale responsibly. You will help build the platforms, workflows, and guardrails that support both today’s products and BusPatrol’s next generation of AI-enabled delivery capabilities.\nCompensation Note\nThe US salary range for this position is provided in the posting. Salary ranges are determined by role, level, location, and additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. 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