[Remote] Senior Dev Ops Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Reality Defender is a cybersecurity company that helps enterprises and governments detect deepfakes and AI-generated media. The Senior DevOps Engineer will own and evolve cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure, automate deployments and operations, improve reliability and security, and support high-scale AI/ML workloads.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve our cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure
- Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, highly available cloud architectures
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and other automation tools
- Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and release automation
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes and containerized workloads
- Establish strong observability across infrastructure and applications, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance metrics using DataDog
- Build systems and processes that improve reliability, uptime, scalability, and disaster recovery
- Partner with Engineering and Security to identify and remediate infrastructure and cloud security risks
- Manage cloud networking, identity management, object storage, RDBMS, access controls, secrets management, DNS, load balancing, and related infrastructure
- Automate repetitive operational work and eliminate manual processes wherever possible
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and lead infrastructure-related incident response
- Establish and improve infrastructure standards, documentation, and operational best practices
- Help evaluate and implement new cloud technologies and tooling as our architecture evolves
- Support the infrastructure requirements of high-scale AI/ML workloads
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar for cloud infrastructure and operational excellence
- Help define the long-term architecture and roadmap for our cloud and DevOps environment
- Work with compliance resources for SOC2, ISO, and FedRAMP certifications
- Develop a deep understanding of our AWS and Azure environments and identify the highest-priority infrastructure risks and opportunities
- Establish strong relationships with Engineering and Security
- Take ownership of critical infrastructure and operational processes
- Identify and eliminate meaningful sources of manual work and operational friction
- Improve reliability, observability, and deployment processes
- Begin implementing a clear roadmap for scaling our infrastructure as the company grows
Skills
- • 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, or a closely related discipline
- • Expert-level experience with both AWS and Azure — this is a core requirement
- • Deep understanding of cloud architecture, networking, security, scalability, and reliability
- • Extensive hands-on experience with Terraform or comparable Infrastructure as Code tooling
- • Strong experience with Kubernetes and Docker/containerized environments
- • Deep experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines
- • Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills
- • Experience with cloud networking, including VPCs/VNets, routing, DNS, load balancers, firewalls, and VPNs
- • Strong understanding of IAM, secrets management, encryption, least-privilege access, and cloud security
- • Experience with monitoring and observability platforms and practices
- • Strong scripting/programming ability in languages such as Python, Bash, Go, or similar
- • Experience operating production systems where reliability and uptime matter
- • Excellent incident response and troubleshooting skills
- • Ability to work independently, make sound technical decisions, and take ownership from architecture through implementation and operations
- • Strong communication skills and the ability to partner effectively with software engineers, security teams, and technical leadership
Benefits
- Healthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage available for dependents
- Dental and Vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and their dependents
- Short/Long-term disability and life insurance plans with 100% premium coverage for employees
- FSA/HSA and 401k programs
- Equity compensation
- 20 days of PTO per year
- 12 weeks of Parental Leave
- Learning and Development budget
- Monthly wellness benefits
- Annual company-sponsored offsite
- For employees working from Reality Defender’s HQ in NYC: Daily in-office lunch through UberEats
- For employees working from Reality Defender’s HQ in NYC: Commuter benefits
- For employees working from Reality Defender’s HQ in NYC: Remote Fridays
- For employees working from Reality Defender’s HQ in NYC: Happy Hours and other local events
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