# Staff Devops Engineer

**Company:** [Artisan](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/artisan)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, Terraform, GitOps, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Postgres, Redis, Python, Bash, Go
**Posted:** 2026-02-13

> Owns full DevOps and infrastructure layer for AI agent platform, managing Kubernetes on AWS, CI/CD, observability, email deliverability at scale, security, and cost optimization. Requires 6+ years experience with deep Kubernetes/AWS expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own Kubernetes cluster management, scaling, resource optimization, and compute layer for AI workloads, data pipelines, and customer infrastructure on AWS.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, staging, rollbacks, and feature flags.
- Implement observability: monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing with tools like Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus.
- Manage email deliverability infrastructure: sender reputation, domain warming, DNS, IP management, SMTP.
- Handle security and compliance: secrets management, access controls, network policies, vulnerability scanning, SOC 2.
- Optimize costs for AI and data-intensive workloads.
- Improve developer experience: local dev environments, fast builds, reliable deploys, documentation.

## Requirements
- 6+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering owning production systems.
- Deep Kubernetes, container orchestration, cloud-native on AWS expertise.
- Strong CI/CD pipeline experience.
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi) and GitOps.
- Networking, DNS, load balancing, security fundamentals.
- Monitoring/observability tooling experience.
- Scripting in Python, Bash, or Go.
- Operating databases (PostgreSQL, Redis) in production.
- Reliability, incident response, on-call practices.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Email infrastructure at scale.
- ML/AI workloads in production.
- Startup infrastructure from scratch.

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