Remote Senior DevOps & AI-Driven Incident Lead

IgniteTech

New Zealand

On-site

NZD 140,000 - 200,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

IgniteTech is seeking a Senior DevOps & Autonomous Systems Engineer to operate at the intersection of production operations and intelligent automation. You’ll own shifts, command incidents, safeguard deployments, and design autonomous agents that absorb more of the workload each week.

Your role blends hands-on AWS operations with AI-native tooling to reduce toil and improve reliability across a global, fully remote team. Strong English communication and on-call commitment are essential.

Qualifications

5+ years in production-facing roles with hands-on incident handling.
AWS depth at scale including multi-AZ and multi-account setups.
Self-directed and able to identify and close high-leverage gaps.
Hands-on AI-native practice with agents and automation frameworks.
Fluent, precise English for incident communication and post-mortems.
Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and time-zone coverage.
OFAC-clear country of residence as a compliance requirement.

Responsibilities

Own the on-call shift, triage incidents, diagnose, mitigate, and restore uptime.
Engineer autonomous workflows and agents to absorb operational toil.
Guard production changes with gates, rollback, and telemetry checks.
Investigate root causes and ship systemic prevention actions.
Turn manual fixes into reusable agent rules and runbooks.
Document decisions and operational context for agents and humans.