DevOps Engineer

Overview As a DevOps Engineer you will design, operate, and improve the infrastructure powering production systems, emphasizing reliability, automation, and developer productivity. You’ll work with cross-functional teams in a fast-moving environment to build scalable, secure, and observable platforms. The role offers hands-on responsibility for Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and security practices, with a strong focus on reducing operational overhead. This is a hands-on position at a growth-stage tech company in New York City that values pragmatic problem-solving and collaboration. ResponsibilitiesBuild, operate, and optimize production infrastructure across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, networking, databases, CI/CD, and observability systemsImprove deployment workflows, release automation, rollback strategies, and overall developer productivityMaintain and evolve Kubernetes environments (cluster operations, workloads, ingress, autoscaling, resource management)Develop and manage infrastructure-as-code using Terraform (or similar tools) for cloud resources, networking, and platform servicesEnhance production reliability through monitoring, alerting, SLOs, incident response, and operational playbooksPartner with engineering teams to troubleshoot production issues across infrastructure, networking, and application layersAutomate manual operational processes and streamline infrastructure workflowsDefine scalable patterns for service ownership, configuration, secrets management, and environment managementMaintain and improve CI/CD pipelines, build systems, container workflows, and release toolingSupport security initiatives, including access control, cloud boundaries, secrets management, and secure deployment practicesAnalyze infrastructure performance, reliability, and cost to identify and implement optimizationsContribute to architectural decisions impacting infrastructure, reliability, and developer experienceParticipate in on-call rotations and support incident response when needed Key requirements5+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, site reliability engineering, or a related roleStrong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)Hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production environmentsExperience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as TerraformSolid understanding of Linux systems, containers, networking, DNS, load balancing, and TLSExperience building or improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment automationFamiliarity with observability tooling metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alertingStrong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, networking, and application layersExperience supporting production systems with a focus on reliability, performance, and simplicityAbility to collaborate effectively in a fast paced engineering environmentComfortable balancing speed, reliability, security, and maintainabilitycollaboration in a fast-paced environmentpragmatic problem-solvingstrong communication and teamworkAWS (preferred), Kubernetes in productionTerraform or similar IaC toolsLinux systems, containers, networking, DNS, load balancing, TLS