Senior DevOps and Application Engineer

Why Join Sunrise Senior Living

At Sunrise Senior Living, we believe meaningful work starts with purpose. Our team members are passionate about making a positive difference in the lives of residents every day.

Senior DevOps & Application Engineer

Sunrise Senior Living seeks a hands-on engineer to build applications, APIs, automation, and scalable AWS cloud infrastructure. Combine software development and DevOps to deliver reliable, secure, production-ready solutions

Essential Duties

As a part of the Sunrise team, supporting our Mission, Principles of Service and Core Values is a fundamental part of this job. Our foundational belief is the sacred value of human life. The unique responsibilities for this role include but are not limited to the essential functions listed as follows:

• Build applications that matter. Develop internal tools, customer-facing applications, APIs, and automation that improve community experiences, solve operational problems and support new revenue streams.
• Make software delivery faster and more reliable. Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate testing and deployments, and standardize how services are built, containerized and released.
• Develop the AWS platform alongside the applications. Provision and improve cloud infrastructure, making pragmatic decisions about architecture, scalability, reliability and cost.
• Keep production healthy and reduce manual work. Strengthen monitoring and observability, diagnose issues and turn recurring problems and repetitive tasks into durable engineering improvements.
• Shape solutions with the people who use them. Work directly with users, customers, business stakeholders and fellow engineers to understand needs, validate ideas and improve products through feedback.

Core Competencies

• Software Engineering & Application Development

Ability to design, develop, test and maintain production-quality applications, APIs, automation and integrations using modern software engineering practices

• Cloud & DevOps Engineering

Strong capability in AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, containerization, infrastructure as code, deployment automation and cloud architecture

• Reliability, Automation & Problem Solving

Proactively identify and resolve technical issues, strengthen monitoring and observability, improve system reliability and automate repetitive processes to reduce operational effort

• Ownership & Technical Judgment

Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of solutions from problem definition through development, deployment and ongoing support; makes pragmatic, scalable, secure and cost-conscious technical decisions

• Collaboration & User-Centered Communication

Effectively partner with end users, customers, business stakeholders and technical teams to understand needs, communicate technical concepts and tradeoffs, incorporate feedback and deliver practical solutions

Experience and Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed throughout this job description are representative of the knowledge, skills and abilities required.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, DevOps, or a combination of both, with meaningful hands-on capability across application development and production operations
• Experience running production workloads on AWS, with an understanding of what it takes to deploy, monitor, troubleshoot and improve them
• The ability to build production-quality applications in a modern language such as Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Go, C# or Java. We value engineering fundamentals more than a particular language
• Ownership across the software lifecycle, from understanding the problem and reviewing code to deploying a solution and keeping it reliable
• Clear communication and practical judgment. You can work directly with technical and nontechnical colleagues, explain tradeoffs and choose solutions that fit the problem

Preferred:

You don’t need experience with every tool below. Relevant depth and the ability to learn matter more than matching a checklist.

• Delivery and infrastructure tooling: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation or AWS CDK
• AWS containers and observability: ECS, EKS, CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana or Prometheus
• Product engineering: Front-end frameworks such as React, AI-assisted development workflows and secure application design

Pay Range:

Ready to take the next step and make a bigger impact than you ever imagined? As part of our team, you will help brighten the future for everyone at Sunrise and beyond. That is why we make it a priority to celebrate the unique ways you bring moments of togetherness and joy to everyone you serve. And when combined with the support, benefits, and growth opportunities we offer, the result is a career that PositivelyShines with everything you need to reach your goals - at work and in your life.

We also offer benefits and other compensation that include:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability Plans

• Retirement Savings Plans

• Employee Assistant Program / Discount Program

• Paid time off (PTO), sick time, and holiday pay

• myFlexPay offered to get paid within hours of a shift

• Tuition Reimbursement

• In addition to base compensation, Sunrise may offer discretionary and/or non-discretionary bonuses. The eligibility to receive such a bonus will depend on the employee’s position, plan/program offered by Sunrise at the time, and required performance pursuant to the plan/program.

• Some benefits have eligibility requirements

Apply today to learn why Sunrise Senior Living is a certified Great Place to Work®

Equal Opportunity Employer

Sunrise Senior Living is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.