Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Summary

Join Hope Media Group as a Senior DevOps Engineer and help build the digital foundation for ministry at scale.

• Hope Media Group is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate reliable, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure that supports our growing digital platforms—including streaming media, donor systems, analytics, and emerging products like Project Gideon.
• In this role, you will partner closely with Software Engineering, Data & Analytics, Product, and Security to enable fast, safe, and sustainable delivery of software. You will bring strong systems thinking, automation expertise, and a service-oriented mindset to help teams move quickly without sacrificing stability or stewardship.
• Hope Media Group—home to KSBJ, WayFM, Vida Unida, WAY LOUD, and NGEN Radio—offers a purpose-driven environment where technical excellence directly supports ministry impact.

Requirements

Essential Functions

Platform Engineering & Reliability

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines that enable safe, repeatable, and fast deployments.
• Ensure high availability, performance, observability, and disaster recovery for critical systems.
• Lead reliability practices including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve system architecture, scalability, and operational maturity.

Security, Governance & Stewardship

• Implement and maintain security best practices across infrastructure, pipelines, and environments.
• Support compliance, access controls, secrets management, and least-privilege policies.
• Collaborate with leadership to balance cost optimization, performance, and long-term sustainability.
• Advocate for responsible technology stewardship aligned with nonprofit ministry values.

DevOps Culture & Enablement

• Coach and enable development teams in DevOps best practices and operational ownership.
• Promote automation, self-service tooling, and shared responsibility for reliability.
• Contribute to documentation, runbooks, and internal platform standards.

Faith Integration & Ministry Support

• Serve stakeholders with humility, excellence, and a Christ-centered mindset.
• Participate in team prayer, ministry-wide Bible studies, and on-air fundraising events as needed.
• Demonstrate flexibility to support broader ministry initiatives when required.

Requirements and Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Experience

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles
• Experience supporting production systems at scale in cloud environments
• Proven experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native platforms

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, etc.)
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.)
• Strong Linux systems and networking fundamentals
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes preferred)
• Observability expertise (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting)
• Ability to diagnose complex system issues and lead incident response calmly and clearly
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently while collaborating across cross-functional teams
• Alignment with Hope Media Group’s mission and commitment to Christian ministry values
• Active involvement in a Bible-believing local church

Certifications (Preferred)

• Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Kubernetes or DevOps-related certifications
• Security or reliability-focused certifications a plus

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

Working Conditions and Environment

Travel:

• Occasionally

Nights/Weekends/Holidays:

• Occasionally (on-call or incident response as needed)

Physical Requirements

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Physical activity may include talking, hearing, repetitive motion (typing, working with hands/fingers), and close visual acuity for extended computer use. Light work, primarily sedentary, with occasional exertion.

Notice

• This job description identifies the essential functions and expectations for performance. It is not inclusive of all specific job tasks that an employee may be required to perform. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instructions and perform job-related duties as may be reasonably assigned by their supervisor.

Full-Time Benefits Offerings:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings Account w/employer contribution
• Flexible Savings Accounts
• Company Paid Short Term Disability/Long Term Disability
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Three (3) Paid Mission Days
• Twelve (12) Company-Paid Holidays
• 403B Retirement with Company Match
• Group Life Insurance
• Legal Shield/Identity Theft Protection
• Access to Marketplace Ministry Chaplains

Third-Party Recruiter Policy:

• We are grateful for the interest of those who wish to support our hiring efforts. However, Hope Media Group does not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate referrals from external staffing agencies or search firms. Submissions from third parties will not be considered and may be retained without obligation or payment or fees.