DevOps Engineer (Cloud)

Chris Baily; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

FinTech Platform in NYC is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own cloud architecture, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and a strong observability discipline.

This mid–senior role is hybrid (4 days onsite) with a salary range of $150,000–$185,000 on a full-time W2 basis. Prior production experience and deep Linux/Python skills are required. You'll build reusable pipeline systems and enforce policy-as-code, driving architectural decisions with ROI in mind.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in infrastructure, DevOps or SRE.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, Terraform, Python, and Linux.
• Production distributed systems ownership.
• Experience with CI/CD and container orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud architecture and CI/CD pipelines end-to-end.
• Manage container orchestration and deployment strategies.
• Enforce standards in pipelines with linters and security scanning (policy-as-code).
• Lead observability practices across the engineering org.

Skills

AWS

Cloud architecture

Python

Linux

5+ years experience

Tools

Docker

OpenTelemetry

OPA

Job description

Site Reliability Engineer — Cloud / DevOps

NYC | Hybrid 4 Days Onsite | Mid–Senior | $150,000–$185,000

We're a fast-growing fintech platform transforming how institutional markets operate — and we need someone to own the infrastructure underneath it all. This isn't a ticket-taker role. We need a builder and enforcer who understands how things work at depth, not just how to configure them. You'll own cloud architecture, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, observability, and enforcement end to end — with real architectural authority and visibility into every layer of the stack.

You should be able to speak to:

• How Docker isolation actually works at the kernel level — cgroups, namespaces, what's happening underneath
• CI/CD pipelines built as reusable systems, not one-offs — full code-to-cloud ownership
• Enforcing standards in the pipeline: linters, security scanning, policy-as-code
• Cloud architecture decisions you can justify on performance, security, cost, and ROI
• Observability as a discipline you've enforced across an engineering org, not just implemented for yourself
• Strong signal: If you've implemented OPA in a production pipeline or describe OpenTelemetry as a specification rather than a tool — say so explicitly.

Required: 5+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE. AWS, Terraform, Python, Linux. Production distributed systems experience. Track record of owning — not just supporting — production environments.

This is a full-time, W2 direct hire position. No C2C, no consultants, no visa sponsorship.

AI workload infrastructure is on our roadmap. xhqgsiq If that interests you, there's real room to grow into it.

Tools and OS are secondary. Depth of thinking is not.