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You will serve as the team's technical lead, set standards and priorities, mentor and develop engineers, and take ownership of the most difficult infrastructure and production problems.You will also help introduce and operationalize AI/LLM capabilities within the platform.This role reports to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and is part of the engineering leadership team.What You'll Be Responsible ForDesign, build, and operate scalable, highly available infrastructure in AWSOwn and evolve infrastructure as code (Terraform) across all environmentsOperate and optimize Aurora PostgreSQL, including replication, failover, and performance tuningOperate ECS (Fargate), ECR, and containerized servicesOperate Kafka-based event streaming systemsManage Auto Scaling Groups and EC2-based workloadsDesign and maintain CI/CD pipelines using BuildkiteBuild automation to eliminate manual operational workManage and secure secrets and access using Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, and IAMPartner with engineering teams to improve system reliability and performanceLead, mentor, and manage a small DevOps teamSet technical direction, standards, and priorities for the DevOps functionDrive cost optimization across AWS infrastructureOperate systems behind Cloudflare, including WAF, CDN, and traffic managementProduction Reliability & Incident OwnershipOwn production incident response end-to-end, including triage, mitigation, and coordinationLead high-severity outage response under pressureServe as an escalation point for complex production issuesDrive root cause analysis (RCA) and enforce follow-up actionsContinuously improve system resilience and recovery mechanismsObservability & System InsightDesign and operate end-to-end observability across metrics, logs, and tracingBuild high-signal monitoring, alerting, and dashboardsDefine and enforce SLIs, SLOs, and alerting standardsReduce alert fatigue and improve the signal-to-noise ratioAI / LLM Systems — Emerging AreaExperience using AI/agentic developer tools, such as Claude Code, Cursor, or similar tools, to accelerate DevOps workflows and improve engineering efficiencyYou don't have to be an expert with AI yet, but you must have the desire to learn quickly and become proficientThis is an area we're heavily investing in as a companyWhat You BringDeep experience operating production systems on AWS, including ECS/Fargate, EC2, networking, and IAMExpert-level Terraform experience managing infrastructure at scaleStrong experience with containerized applications and distributed systems, such as KafkaExperience operating multi-tenant, highly available systemsProven ownership of production on-call and experience resolving critical incidentsStrong systems fundamentals, including Linux, networking, and debuggingStrong scripting ability in Bash, Python, or an equivalent languageExperience designing and operating CI/CD systemsStrong understanding of security best practices, including IAM and secrets managementDemonstrated technical leadership and experience mentoring engineersExperience managing engineers, or clear readiness and interest in taking on direct people managementStrong communication and prioritization skillsNice to HaveExperience operating multi-region or globally distributed systemsExperience working with Cloudflare at scaleExperience optimizing high-throughput or event-driven systemsExperience leading a small infrastructure, platform, SRE, or DevOps teamExperience operating or integrating LLM/AI services in production environments, including tracing and evaluation with OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Langfuse, or equivalent toolsExperience managing the performance, cost, and reliability of LLM workloads, including latency, token usage, rate limiting, and fallbacksOh Yeah, and We Can Offer YouA tight-knit team of motivated, dedicated individuals who work together without egoExtensive access to and engagement with leadershipAn Agile working methodologyCompetitive salaryAccess to new 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