DevOps Engineer

Location: New York City, NY
Experience: 5+ years
Compensation: $150,000–$250,000 per year
Employment Type: Full-Time

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to build, automate, and operate scalable, secure, and highly reliable cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and production infrastructure.

You will work closely with software engineers, security, and product teams to improve deployment velocity, infrastructure reliability, system performance, and developer productivity. This is a hands-on engineering role requiring ownership of infrastructure and automation from design through production.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and secure cloud infrastructure on AWS.
  
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and related tooling.
  
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated software delivery.
  
• Deploy and operate containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes, including EKS.
  
• Implement GitOps and automated deployment practices to improve release reliability.
  
• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability across production systems.
  
• Define and improve reliability practices, including incident response, root-cause analysis, and disaster recovery.
  
• Automate repetitive infrastructure and operational processes using Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
  
• Improve infrastructure security through IAM, secrets management, network controls, and secure deployment practices.
  
• Monitor infrastructure performance and cloud costs and identify opportunities for optimization.
  
• Partner with engineering teams to improve developer tooling and deployment workflows.
  
• Participate in architecture and infrastructure design discussions.
  
• Create technical documentation, runbooks, and operational standards.
  
• Mentor engineers and contribute to DevOps and infrastructure best practices.

Must-Have Skills

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, or Platform Engineering.
  
• Strong production experience with AWS.
  
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, preferably Amazon EKS.
  
• Strong experience with Terraform / Infrastructure as Code.
  
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
  
• Strong understanding of Docker and containerized applications.
  
• Experience with Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals.
  
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar.
  
• Strong scripting/programming skills in Python, Bash, Go, or similar.
  
• Experience with Git and modern software development workflows.
  
• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and incident-management skills.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Terraform Cloud, Terragrunt, or Pulumi.
  
• Experience with Helm, Argo CD, Flux, or other GitOps tooling.
  
• Experience with AWS services including EKS, ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch.
  
• Experience with Kafka or other distributed messaging systems.
  
• Experience implementing SRE practices, SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.
  
• Experience with security, compliance, IAM, and secrets-management systems.
  
• Experience optimizing AWS infrastructure and cloud spend.
  
• Experience with service meshes or distributed systems.
  
• Experience working in high-growth startups or SaaS/product companies.