DevOps Engineer (Cloud)

LaStellar Group; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

LaStellar Group seeks a hands-on infrastructure leader in NYC, blending on-site and remote work. You will own cloud architecture, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and observability with architectural authority across the stack.

We expect 5+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE, with AWS, Terraform, Python, and Linux in production. A track record of owning production environments is required; visa sponsorship is not offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE.
• Experience with AWS, Terraform, Python, and Linux in production.
• Production distributed systems ownership, not just support.
• Ability to justify architecture decisions around performance, security, cost.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud architecture end-to-end across the stack.
• Oversee CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration.
• Establish observability standards across the org.
• Enforce security, linting, and policy-as-code in pipelines.
• Drive production reliability and incident response practices.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Python

Linux

Distributed systems

OpenTelemetry

OPA

Job description

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. We'll want to talk immediately.

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. If that interests you, there's real room to grow into it.

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