DevOps Engineer — Cloud, CI/CD & Observability

CONFIDO; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health coverage

Dental/Vision

Fertility support

Parental leave

Unlimited PTO

401(k)

Relocation assistance

Desk stipend

Team lunches

Job summary

Confido in New York, NY is hiring a DevOps Engineer to own the infrastructure and tooling that keeps the platform fast, safe, and easy to ship to. You’ll work across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and observability, collaborating with product engineers and engineering leadership.

In this hands-on role, you’ll split your time between planned platform projects and current production needs, shaping the roadmap and delivering reliable, scalable deployments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure for a software product.
• Strong AWS experience: networking, compute, storage, IAM.
• Experience running containerized workloads on Kubernetes.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Observability, incident investigation, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Ability to automate operational work in Python, shell, or another language.
• Strong security judgment for handling financial data.
• Turn messy operational problems into simple, maintainable solutions.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve production infrastructure on AWS, including Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, S3, networking, IAM, and load balancing.
• Manage infrastructure as code to ensure changes are reviewable and safe to roll back.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Rails, Python, and TypeScript services, including migrations and tests.
• Expand observability with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana to surface issues early.
• Investigate production incidents, identify root causes, and ship lasting fixes.
• Make deployments safer with automated checks and controlled rollouts.
• Collaborate with product engineers on local development, test environments, and release workflows.
• Monitor capacity, reliability, and cloud spend as volume grows.
• Assist in incident response, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Join an on-call rotation and improve on-call experience.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Root cause

Automation

Security

Communication

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

GitHub Actions

PostgreSQL

Job description

Confido in New York, NY is hiring a DevOps Engineer to own the infrastructure and tooling that keeps the platform fast, safe, and easy to ship to. You’ll work across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and observability, collaborating with product engineers and engineering leadership.

In this hands-on role, you’ll split your time between planned platform projects and current production needs, shaping the roadmap and delivering reliable, scalable deployments.