Senior DevOps Engineer

Clera; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

On-site role in New York

Startup growth environment

Job summary

Clera in New York, NY is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and scale our cloud infrastructure for an AI-native B2B SaaS platform. You will work with backend and ML engineers to implement GitOps, IaC, and production reliability at the software scale we require.

You'll lead design and implementation of secure AWS-based infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability, while mentoring teammates and optimizing costs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a senior DevOps or Infra role with end-to-end ownership.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise, with EKS experience preferred.
• Broad infra experience: networking, security, monitoring, IaC.
• Proven track record building AWS infrastructure at scale.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Recent hands-on work in an infrastructure engineering role.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using IaC on AWS.
• Design and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines and automate workflows.
• Own production reliability with observability, SLI/SLOs, and incidents.
• Implement and champion GitOps workflows for deployments.
• Build compliant infrastructure with IAM and secrets management.
• Optimize cloud costs while maintaining performance and reliability.
• Create developer tooling and documentation to accelerate workflows.
• Mentor team members on DevOps best practices and strategy.

Skills

Kubernetes (EKS)

AWS infrastructure

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

Infrastructure ownership

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Jenkins

Docker

Python

Bash

Job description

About the Role

This is a high-ownership, hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer position at a fast-growing, AI-native B2B SaaS company in the consumer intelligence space - think competitors to Meltwater, NielsenIQ, and Qualtrics. You'll own the cloud infrastructure that enterprise-scale customers rely on for critical data and decision-making. Working closely with backend and ML engineers, you'll be the person who makes GitOps, infrastructure as code, and true production reliability a reality for the entire engineering organization.

The team is small (under 50 people) and technically ambitious, with engineers from backgrounds including Microsoft, IBM, and other high-caliber technology organizations. You'll have a direct, outsized impact on how the platform is built and scaled.

What You'll Do

• Architect and build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using IaC (Terraform/Terragrunt) on AWS

• Design and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines; convert manual processes into automated, repeatable workflows

• Own production reliability - set up observability stacks, define SLI/SLOs, and lead incident response

• Implement and champion GitOps workflows for all infrastructure deployments

• Build compliance-ready infrastructure (SOC 2, GDPR) with IAM best practices and secrets management

• Optimize cloud costs while maintaining performance and reliability at scale

• Create developer tooling and documentation that accelerates engineering workflows across the team

• Mentor team members on DevOps best practices and guide infrastructure strategy

What We're Looking For

Required

• 5+ years in a senior DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering role with end-to-end infrastructure ownership

• Deep expertise with Kubernetes - EKS experience strongly preferred

• Broad experience across multiple infrastructure domains: networking, security, monitoring, IaC - not just CI/CD

• Proven track record building and managing AWS infrastructure at scale

• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

• Recent, active hands-on work in an infrastructure engineering role

Nice to Have

• Deep hands-on expertise with Terraform and Terragrunt

• Experience building and managing infrastructure for B2B SaaS products

• Familiarity with Docker, Python, Bash scripting, and Jenkins

• Background supporting AI/ML workloads or data-intensive platforms

Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this role. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $160,000 - $200,000 USD annually, depending on experience

• Equity participation in an early-stage, venture-backed company

• Opportunity to shape the infrastructure of a rapidly scaling AI platform from the ground up

Location

This is an on-site role based in New York, NY. Candidates should be local to or willing to relocate to the New York City area.