DevOps Engineer - Cloud, Security & Observability

Reco; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Reco is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our growing team and help build, harden, and scale the infrastructure that powers our platform. You will collaborate with engineering and security to deliver reliable cloud systems, implement infrastructure as code, mature CI/CD pipelines, and drive observability across the stack.

This high-ownership role rewards systems thinking and working across teams to improve developer experience, platform reliability, and secure shipping.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in production DevOps or infrastructure engineering in cloud-native SaaS.
• Security-aware engineering approach and DevSecOps experience.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) and Docker in production.
• Strong IaC skills using Terraform, Helm, and GitOps (ArgoCD).
• Experience with AWS; Azure is a plus; networking and VPCs knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) for rapid, reliable releases.
• Build, manage, and harden cloud infrastructure on AWS/GCP with Terraform or Pulumi.
• Operate Kubernetes clusters, deployment strategies, autoscaling, and security hardening.
• Define security controls across clouds: IAM, secrets management, networking, scanning.
• Implement observability stacks with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
• Participate in incident response, post-mortems, and define SLOs for reliability.
• Containerize workloads and optimize service delivery from dev to prod.
• Support compliance readiness (SOC 2, ISO 27001) with automated controls.
• Identify toil and automate, reducing manual toil for the team.
• Provide light North America IT/Help Desk support as needed.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

ArgoCD

Docker

Cloud platforms AWS/GCP

Security engineering

Python/Go/Bash

Observability tools

Tools

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Terraform

Pulumi

Kubernetes (EKS/GKE)

Docker

Vault/AWS Secrets Manager

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Reco is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our growing team and help build, harden, and scale the infrastructure that powers our platform. You will collaborate with engineering and security to deliver reliable cloud systems, implement infrastructure as code, mature CI/CD pipelines, and drive observability across the stack.

This high-ownership role rewards systems thinking and working across teams to improve developer experience, platform reliability, and secure shipping.