Senior DevOps Engineer | AWS | Kubernetes | Terraform | Must Have Startup Experience

Location: New York City (Onsite 4–5 days p/w)

Package: $170,000 – $200,000 + meaningful equity

Eligibility: US Residents Only - Visa transfers considered

🚨 Please only apply if you have ALL of the following 🚨

Deep, hands-on AWS infrastructure experience
Production-grade Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
Terraform and/or Terragrunt - end-to-end IaC ownership
CI/CD pipeline design and automation
Startup or scale-up experience
End-to-end infrastructure ownership - not just a contributor

Join a freshly investor-backed, AI-native B2B SaaS company already trusted by enterprise clients at the Fortune 500 level. The product is live, the traction is real, and now they're bringing infrastructure fully in-house. This is the foundational DevOps hire - the person who owns the stack, sets the standard, and builds the platform that scales the business.

You'll work directly alongside backend and ML engineers in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment. Clean infrastructure. Modern stack. Zero legacy baggage. Real impact from day one.

ℹ️ Very Important Notes

This is a hands-on engineering role - not suitable for architects who haven't been in the weeds recently
You must be comfortable owning the full infrastructure remit in a startup environment
High autonomy - you'll be setting direction, not following tickets
Onsite 4–5 days p/w in NYC

Must-Haves

4–7 years of DevOps / infrastructure engineering experience
Deep Kubernetes expertise - EKS strongly preferred
Terraform and Terragrunt for infrastructure-as-code
CI/CD pipeline ownership and automation from scratch
AWS - broad, hands-on, production-grade experience
GitOps workflows and modern deployment practices
Experience in a VC-backed startup or fast-growth environment
Strong communication and ability to operate independently

Bonus Experience

MLOps exposure or working alongside ML engineering teams
SOC 2 / GDPR compliance infrastructure
Cybersecurity interest or IAM best practices experience
Observability stack setup - SLIs, SLOs, incident response
B2B SaaS background

What You'll Be Doing

Infrastructure Ownership

Architect and build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS using IaC
Convert manual processes into automated, repeatable, GitOps-driven workflows
Own cloud cost optimisation without compromising performance or reliability

Reliability & Observability

Stand up and maintain observability stacks — define SLIs and SLOs
Lead incident response and build a culture of production reliability
Implement compliance-ready infrastructure with robust secrets management

Collaboration & Enablement

Work hand-in-hand with backend and ML engineers to accelerate delivery
Build developer tooling and documentation that removes friction across the team
Shape DevOps best practices as the company scales

What They're Looking For

A hands-on, high-ownership DevOps engineer who's done this before in a startup. Someone who takes pride in clean infrastructure, moves fast, and doesn't need to be told twice. A builder — not a maintainer.

If you tick every box above and want to own the infrastructure layer at a high-growth AI company with real enterprise traction, get in touch for a fast response.

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