AI-Native DevOps & Platform Reliability Engineer

Valency Systems Inc.; South Carolina; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Valency Systems Inc. is hiring an AI-native DevOps/Operations Engineer to design and operate the production platform, improve CI/CD, and build robust guardrails for a rapidly evolving SaaS platform.

You will work at the intersection of platform engineering and AI-era delivery, scaling high-growth systems, implementing observability, cost efficiency, and secure release processes, with on-site SF Bay Area presence and optional remote days.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressively increasing responsibility operating important production systems.
• Deep AWS experience in real production environments.
• Experience designing or significantly improving CI/CD systems and release processes.
• Experience building or operating logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability systems.
• Strong judgment around guardrails, operational safety, and change management.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, release controls, and deployment workflows.
• Build and maintain highly reliable AWS-based production systems.
• Improve observability across logs, metrics, traces, events, and workflow state.
• Instrument platform behavior so issues and regressions are quickly visible.
• Create operational analytics that close the loop between engineering, product, and customer experience.
• Drive cost engineering and infrastructure efficiency as the system scales.
• Build safer operating patterns for agent-assisted code changes and operational actions.
• Implement testing, validation, approval, and rollback mechanisms that reduce operational risk.
• Improve batch, queue, cache, and job-processing reliability and monitoring.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, postmortems, and follow-through.
• Partner with external vendors and partners when needed.
• Help define platform standards, reliability practices, and operational maturity across the company.

Skills

Production systems

CI/CD

Observability

Incident response

Guardrails

Human-in-the-loop

Cost optimization

AWS

Tools

AWS

ECS / Fargate

EKS

RDS

S3

CloudWatch

GitHub Actions

CDK

Job description

Valency Systems Inc. is hiring an AI-native DevOps/Operations Engineer to design and operate the production platform, improve CI/CD, and build robust guardrails for a rapidly evolving SaaS platform.

You will work at the intersection of platform engineering and AI-era delivery, scaling high-growth systems, implementing observability, cost efficiency, and secure release processes, with on-site SF Bay Area presence and optional remote days.