DevOps Engineer

Weekday (YC W21); New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Weekday is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to build and operate scalable, secure cloud infrastructure in New York City. You will own automation across design to production, working closely with software, security, and product teams to boost deployment velocity and reliability.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, deep AWS/Kubernetes experience (EKS preferred), and strong IaC with Terraform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on DevOps, SRE, cloud infra or platform engineering.
• Strong production experience with AWS.
• Hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) experience.
• Terraform / IaC expertise.
• CI/CD pipelines design and maintenance.
• Docker and containerized applications experience.
• Linux administration and networking fundamentals.
• Observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or CloudWatch.
• Scripting with Python, Bash, or Go.
• Git and modern software development workflows.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated delivery.
• Deploy and operate Docker/Kubernetes-based applications, including EKS.
• Implement GitOps and automated deployment practices for reliability.
• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability across production systems.
• Define reliability practices, incident response, root-cause analysis, and DR.
• Automate infrastructure and operational processes with Python or Bash.
• Improve security through IAM, secrets-management, and network controls.
• Monitor costs and performance; collaborate on tooling and workflows.
• Participate in architecture discussions and create runbooks and standards.
• Mentor engineers and share DevOps best practices.

Skills

DevOps experience

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Docker

Linux

Observability

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Go programming

Git workflows

Job description

Location: New York City, NY Experience: 5+ years Compensation: $150,000–$250,000 per year Employment Type: Full-Time

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to build, automate, and operate scalable, secure, and highly reliable cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and production infrastructure.

You will work closely with software engineers, security, and product teams to improve deployment velocity, infrastructure reliability, system performance, and developer productivity. This is a hands-on engineering role requiring ownership of infrastructure and automation from design through production.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and secure cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and related tooling.
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated software delivery.
• Deploy and operate containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes, including EKS.
• Implement GitOps and automated deployment practices to improve release reliability.
• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability across production systems.
• Define and improve reliability practices, including incident response, root-cause analysis, and disaster recovery.
• Automate repetitive infrastructure and operational processes using Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Improve infrastructure security through IAM, secrets management, network controls, and secure deployment practices.
• Monitor infrastructure performance and cloud costs and identify opportunities for optimization.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve developer tooling and deployment workflows.
• Participate in architecture and infrastructure design discussions.
• Create technical documentation, runbooks, and operational standards.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to DevOps and infrastructure best practices.

Must-Have Skills

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, or Platform Engineering.
• Strong production experience with AWS.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, preferably Amazon EKS.
• Strong experience with Terraform / Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of Docker and containerized applications.
• Experience with Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar.
• Strong scripting/programming skills in Python, Bash, Go, or similar.
• Experience with Git and modern software development workflows.
• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and incident-management skills.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Terraform Cloud, Terragrunt, or Pulumi.
• Experience with Helm, Argo CD, Flux, or other GitOps tooling.
• Experience with AWS services including EKS, ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch.
• Experience with Kafka or other distributed messaging systems.
• Experience implementing SRE practices, SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.
• Experience with security, compliance, IAM, and secrets-management systems.
• Experience optimizing AWS infrastructure and cloud spend.
• Experience with service meshes or distributed systems.
• Experience working in high-growth startups or SaaS/product companies.