Staff DevOps Engineer – Infrastructure and Platform

About the Role ATG runs 8 global auction marketplaces on a DevOps platform you'll help shape. As Staff Engineer, you'll set technical direction for infrastructure — standards, multi-year roadmap, and senior technical authority across Infrastructure Engineering and Unified Operations. You'll earn trust with development teams by knowing both sides of the stack — as comfortable reviewing a Kubernetes manifest as defining the policy behind it — and writing guidance engineers actually want to follow. Scope: CI/CD, cloud architecture, IaC, observability, and developer experience across 8 marketplaces. Success means your standards and decisions outlast your direct involvement. A foundational hire in ATG's 2026–2027 DevOps restructuring, with real influence over a platform, toolchain, and operating model still being defined. What You'll Do Technical Strategy & Infrastructure Roadmap Build/drive the 2-year Infrastructure Engineering technical strategy — defining what ATG's infrastructure and platform function should look like, what capabilities it will build, and what it will stop doing.Author technical strategy documents and present them to engineering leadership for ratification. Be accountable for the choices, not just the authorship.Identify which platform investments generate the highest leverage across all 8 marketplaces and build the case — in business risk language — for prioritisation.Define the standards deprecation roadmap: which tooling divergences to resolve, in which order, and by when.Continuously scan the industry for emerging infrastructure and platform engineering patterns. Bring informed, opinionated recommendations rather than a list of options.Cross-Functional Technical Governance & Developer Partnership Serve as the go-to infrastructure partner for all development squads — joining sprint planning and architecture reviews to catch problems before they hit production.Set platform policy as guardrails, not mandates — enforced through technical review and guidance developers actually adopt.Translate infrastructure constraints into developer terms: speed, reliability, self-service — not infrastructure jargon.Own escalations when teams want to diverge from standards: assess risk, make the call, document it, and explain the reasoning clearly.Represent Infrastructure Engineering in architecture review boards and cross-marketplace technical decisions.Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives like hiring bar calibration and engineering principles.Cloud Infrastructure Architecture Contribute to ATG's cloud infrastructure governance standards and guardrails — the patterns for compute, networking, storage, and managed services that development teams build against across AWS (primary) and Azure/GCP.Involved in network architecture standards: VPC design, subnet strategy, traffic routing, load balancer configuration, CDN integration, and DNS architecture across marketplace environments.Maintain the cloud infrastructure security posture standards: IAM design, secrets management architecture, network segmentation, and compliance guardrails (policy-as-code enforced, not advisory).Establish disaster recovery and business continuity standards — RPO/RTO targets, failover architecture, and runbook requirements — across all production environments.CI/CD Platform Engineering Be a core contributor to ATG's CI/CD golden path strategy — define the direction and govern the standardized rollout across all 8 marketplaces (Q1–Q3 2027).Drive deployment lead time from 2.1 days to under 1 day within 15 months. Define the measurement framework, track progress, and course-correct.Design reusable pipeline templates and abstractions that developers adopt with minimal friction. The quality test: a developer on a new marketplace should be able to ship their first pull request through the golden path pipeline within one day of onboarding.Establish deployment quality gates: automated testing integration, change failure rate targets, and rollback trigger standards.Define DORA metric targets for ATG and own the reporting framework used to track engineering delivery performance.Observability Strategy & Standardisation Define ATG's observability standard: unified logs, metrics, and distributed traces across all marketplaces using Dynatrace.Set the SLO/SLA framework — the definitions, the thresholds, the review cadence, and the escalation model.Make observability a developer capability, not just an ops capability: define instrumentation standards and golden path integrations so development teams can implement traces and custom metrics without requiring DevOps involvement for each service.Govern implementation methods. Ensure the chosen stack is commercially sound, operationally viable, and adoptable by teams with varying maturity levels.Establish alerting standards and mean time to detection targets.Developer Experience & Platform Adoption Define ATG's developer experience strategy and InfraEng's role in delivering it.Treat golden-path adoption as a product metric; invest only in capabilities developers actually use.Run architecture reviews for development squads, surfacing constraints and removing blockers.Write infrastructure guidance developers actually read — useful, but brief.Contribute to the InfraEng roadmap with data-driven prioritization.Developing Engineers & Engineering Culture Develop Senior engineers on both DevOps teams through design review, coaching, and growth opportunities.Define and model the engineering culture and standards for the InfraEng team.Contribute to hiring bar calibration and interview panels across the org.Write clear strategy docs, principles, and decision records — writing is a core Staff-level leadership tool. What We're Looking For Required 8+ years in Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering, or SRE, with at least 3 years in a senior or staff-level capacity.Demonstrated experience owning a technical roadmap or multi-year infrastructure strategy at team or department level — not just contributing to one.Proven ability to earn and maintain technical credibility with software engineers. You have worked closely with development squads — in architecture reviews, sprint planning, or technical consultation — and developers have changed how they build things based on your guidance. References can speak to this specifically.Track record of driving technical adoption across engineering organizations: setting infrastructure standards that other teams actually follow, and navigating the organizational dynamics required to make that happen without authority.Experience influencing technical direction with senior stakeholders (Directors, VPs, or equivalent) through written strategy documents and structured verbal advocacy.Deep cloud infrastructure architecture experience — AWS required: compute (EC2, ECS, Lambda), networking (VPC design, ALB/NLB, Route 53, CloudFront), storage (S3, EBS, EFS), IAM, and managed database services. Multi-cloud (Azure/GCP) valued at this level, not optional.Strong IaC background — Terraform required. Ability to define module architecture, policy-as-code standards, and drift detection approach. Not just writing modules — owning the program.Deep hands-on experience designing and operating CI/CD platforms at scale (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Buildkite, or equivalent). Able to both set the strategy and validate the implementation.Experience defining observability standards using OpenTelemetry or equivalent. Familiarity with SLO/SLA frameworks and how to implement them operationally.Proficiency in DORA metrics as a measurement and improvement framework — must be able to define targets and build the reporting infrastructure, not just interpret results.Proficiency in at least one scripting or backend language: Python, Go, or TypeScript.Kubernetes platform experience (EKS, GKE, or AKS) at the standard-setting level — able to define how containerized workloads should be structured and operated, and explain those standards to developers in terms they find useful.Demonstrated ability to develop Senior engineers through design review, technical coaching, structured feedback, and growth opportunities.Exceptional written communication: writes clear, precise technical guidance for developer audiences and clear, persuasive strategy documents for engineering leadership. Can calibrate the same underlying concept to both.Preferred Experience operating in a marketplace, e-commerce, or multi-tenant SaaS platform context.Hands-on experience with ephemeral/preview environments (per-PR environments using Namespace.so, Okteto, or similar) at the platform design level.Experience with policy-as-code frameworks (OPA, Sentinel, Checkov) as a platform governance mechanism.Background in distributed, globally-distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones.Public technical contributions: conference talks, published writing, open source maintainership, or internal thought leadership recognized outside the immediate team.Experience in post-merger or restructuring engineering environments where infrastructure standards need to be established from scratch across multiple inherited systems. Auction Technology Group is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $170,000 to $185,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.