Remote Sr DevOps Engineer

Description:

• We are recruiting a seasoned DevOps Engineer for an innovative technology company specializing in AI-powered brand safety and contextual intelligence solutions.
• This role focuses on building and maintaining the robust infrastructure foundation that supports advanced data analytics and content measurement platforms.
• The ideal candidate will design, secure, and optimize operational systems that enable scalable, high-performance applications.
• This is a pivotal role for someone passionate about automation, system ownership, and creating resilient infrastructure solutions from the ground up.
• Key responsibilities include designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency applications, mainly on AWS.
• The candidate will develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines for efficient, reliable, and consistent deployment processes.
• Continuous identification and implementation of infrastructure improvements across the entire product ecosystem is expected.
• The role involves architecting and supporting serverless solutions using AWS Lambda, ECS Fargate, and event-driven architecture components.
• Establishing comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and logging frameworks to ensure system reliability and visibility is crucial.
• The candidate will manage infrastructure-as-code implementations using CloudFormation, Terraform, and related tools.
• Partnering with development teams to determine infrastructure requirements, deployment approaches, and operational toolsets is essential.
• The role includes overseeing secrets management and identity systems utilizing AWS IAM and similar platforms.
• Maintaining compliance with security and privacy standards, including access controls, encryption protocols, and audit mechanisms, is required.
• The candidate will resolve production incidents across all service layers with a focus on rapid response and thorough post-incident analysis.
• Creating and maintaining automated backup, disaster recovery, and failover systems is part of the responsibilities.
• Researching and adopting emerging DevOps methodologies and technologies to enhance platform performance and reliability is expected.

Requirements:

• The candidate must have 10+ years of software engineering background with 6+ years focused on DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Demonstrated experience managing production environments with comprehensive infrastructure responsibilities is required.
• Extensive AWS expertise, including compute, storage, networking, and identity management services, is necessary.
• Practical experience with serverless technologies such as AWS Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, API Gateway, and ECS Fargate is essential.
• Advanced skills in Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, ECS, and GKE are required.
• Proficiency with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, ArgoCD, or Jenkins is necessary.
• Strong scripting capabilities in Bash, Python, or Go for automation and tooling development are required.
• Experience with observability solutions like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK stack is essential.
• A solid understanding of network design, security frameworks, and zero-trust access architectures is necessary.
• Knowledge of secrets management systems and infrastructure-level access policy enforcement is required.
• Exceptional troubleshooting and root cause analysis abilities are necessary.
• Strong collaborative and communication skills across diverse technical and business teams are essential.
• A continuous improvement mindset with a focus on automation, optimization, and security enhancement is required.

Benefits:

• This position offers the opportunity to join an early-stage team with proven success in developing cutting-edge contextual intelligence technology.
• The candidate will work alongside talented engineers and product leaders who prioritize innovation and measurable client impact.