Senior DevOps Engineer
$170,000–$190,000 year
HybridNew York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Provide infrastructure support and on-call coverage from New York, ensuring east-coast availability during early business hours. Manage and scale the multi-shard AWS environment while maintaining high availability, performance, and security. Own SRE responsibilities including incident response, reliability engineering, and improving system uptime. Build and expand logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling across cloud infrastructure. Work with engineering teams to deploy code quickly and safely. Spearhead network security initiatives and lead GCP infrastructure setup for AI platform services. Design automation to streamline deployment processes. This role requires 3 days in-office (Tuesday through Thursday) and 8+ years of DevOps/SRE experience.
Required Qualifications
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of DevOps/SRE experience in a production environment
- Deep experience deploying and managing infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, RDS, EKS, Opensearch and related services)
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, Linux systems administration, and modern web architectures (HTTP, REST)
- Proficiency in shell scripting and at least one scripting language (Python, Ruby, etc.)
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability systems
- 3 days in-office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)
- Provide infrastructure support and on-call coverage from New York, ensuring east-coast availability during early business hours
- Manage and scale our multi-shard AWS environment, maintaining high availability, performance, and security
- Own SRE responsibilities: incident response, reliability engineering, and improving system uptime and resilience
- Build and expand logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling across our cloud infrastructure
- Work with engineering teams to ensure new features are deployed quickly, safely, and easily
- Spearhead network security and compliance initiatives, implementing fine-grained access controls
- Lead the setup and configuration of GCP infrastructure, including permissions, IAM, and AI platform services (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform / Vertex AI)
- Design and implement automation and configuration management to streamline deployment processes
- A self-starter comfortable working independently in a remote/New York setting, with strong ownership of your domain
- Passionate about automation, observability, and building reliable, scalable systems
- Experienced with SRE practices — you think about reliability, error budgets, and scalability proactively
- A clear communicator who works well across engineering teams and time zones
- Excited by multi-shard architectures and the infrastructure challenges that come with them
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — particularly IAM, networking, and managed services
- Familiarity with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform or Vertex AI infrastructure setup
- Experience scaling infrastructure to support AI/ML workloads
- Database administration experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar)
- Experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
- Experience with multi-shard or multi-tenant SaaS architectures
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