# Senior Dev Ops Engineer

**Company:** [Reality Defender](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/reality-defender)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $170k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Linux, Datadog, Python, Bash, Go, Cloud Networking, IAM, DNS, Disaster Recovery
**Posted:** 2026-08-20

> Own and evolve secure, highly available AWS and Azure infrastructure, including Terraform automation, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, networking, and incident response. The role requires 7+ years of DevOps or related experience and strong cross-functional partnership across engineering and security.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own and evolve 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 automation tools.
- Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and release automation.
- Manage Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
- Establish observability across infrastructure and applications using monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance metrics with Datadog.
- Improve reliability, uptime, scalability, and disaster recovery.
- Partner with Engineering and Security to remediate infrastructure and cloud security risks.
- Manage cloud networking, identity management, object storage, relational databases, access controls, secrets management, DNS, and load balancing.
- Automate repetitive operational work and troubleshoot complex production issues.
- Lead infrastructure-related incident response.
- Establish infrastructure standards, documentation, and operational best practices.
- Support infrastructure requirements for high-scale AI/ML workloads.
- Mentor engineers and define the long-term cloud and DevOps roadmap.
- Support SOC 2, ISO, and FedRAMP certification efforts.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure, or a related discipline.
- Expert-level experience with both AWS and Azure.
- 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.
- Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with VPCs/VNets, routing, DNS, load balancers, firewalls, and VPNs.
- Understanding of IAM, secrets management, encryption, least-privilege access, and cloud security.
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms and practices.
- Strong scripting or programming ability in Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages.
- 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 operations.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Salary: $170,000–$200,000 annually.
- Healthcare plans with 100% employee premium coverage and partial dependent coverage.
- Dental and vision plans with 100% employee premium coverage and dependent coverage.
- Short- and long-term disability and life insurance with 100% employee premium coverage.
- FSA/HSA and 401(k) 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.
- NYC HQ employees receive daily in-office lunch, commuter benefits, remote Fridays, happy hours, and other local events.

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