DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the scalability, security, and reliability of our AI-driven financial crime prevention platform. You will automate cloud infrastructure, implement monitoring and observability solutions, and build secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines. Your work will directly contribute to maintaining high availability for a platform that fights financial crime 24/7. This role is based on the East Coast, U.S. and requires expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, security best practices, and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD).

Your Responsibilities

• Provision, manage, and scale multi-cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform).
• Maintain high availability (HA), fault tolerance, and least-privilege security practices, while optimizing cloud costs.
• Design and maintain developer-friendly CI/CD workflows, container templates, and reusable artifacts for seamless software delivery.
• Implement real-time monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions (e.g., Elastic Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch) to proactively detect and resolve issues.
• Implement and enforce cloud security best practices, identify and mitigate vulnerabilities, and ensure compliance with data protection regulations.
• Provide technical guidance to clients running Hawk’s platform in their own VPC environments, supporting onboarding and integration.
• Develop structured documentation for cloud architectures, best practices, and deployment processes, ensuring seamless team collaboration.

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Cloud Engineering roles.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes, containerized applications, and cloud-native technologies.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP and their core services.
• Proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar.
• Strong knowledge of observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Elastic Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).
• Solid understanding of cloud security principles, least-privilege access, and automated security policies.
• Ability to diagnose complex technical challenges and provide scalable, secure solutions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills; able to work effectively in a remote, cross-functional environment.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, hands-on role, with a willingness to get your hands dirty and embrace feedback for continuous improvement.

• Experience in cybersecurity, penetration testing, and cloud compliance.
• Familiarity with Java Spring Boot & Apache Kafka.
• Experience in 24/7 uptime environments with on-call rotations.
• Knowledge of big data systems (PostgreSQL, S3/Azure Blob Storage, Elasticsearch).