Senior DevOps Engineer — AI-Native Infra Platform (Remote)

Avantos, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Avantos, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and evolve our infrastructure, reliability, and deployment practices.

You will help build the foundational platform that enables our engineering teams to ship quickly and securely while meeting financial services security standards. This hybrid NYC-based or US-remote role emphasizes SRE discipline, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, and observability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles.
• Expert-level proficiency with AWS services including ECS Fargate, ALB, Cognito, S3, SQS, and related services.
• Deep hands-on experience with Terraform for managing complex, multi-account AWS environments.
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python and/or Bash
• Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar)
• Solid understanding of containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes/ECS)
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Datadog, CloudWatch, or equivalent)
• Deep knowledge of networking, security, and AWS best practices
• Strong problem-solving abilities and experience troubleshooting complex distributed systems
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with engineering teams

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain our AWS cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code principles with Terraform
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid, safe deployments across multiple environments
• Own observability strategy—implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using Datadog and other tooling
• Architect and manage containerized workloads on ECS Fargate and evaluate migration paths to Kubernetes
• Establish and enforce security best practices, working closely with compliance teams on financial services requirements
• Design and implement disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies
• Optimize system performance, cost efficiency, and resource utilization across AWS services
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve service reliability, reduce toil, and establish SLOs/SLIs
• Participate in incident response and conduct thorough post-mortems to drive continuous improvement
• Mentor engineers on DevOps practices, cloud architecture patterns, and operational excellence

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Python

Communication

SRE

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Datadog

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

CloudWatch

Job description

Avantos, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and evolve our infrastructure, reliability, and deployment practices.

You will help build the foundational platform that enables our engineering teams to ship quickly and securely while meeting financial services security standards. This hybrid NYC-based or US-remote role emphasizes SRE discipline, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, and observability.