Senior DevOps Engineer: AWS & Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes

Reality Defender; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Dental & Vision

Disability & Life Insurance

401k + FSA/HSA

Equity

Paid Time Off

Parental Leave

Learning Budget

Wellness Benefits

Offsite Events

Lunch NYC HQ

Commuter Benefits

Remote Fridays

Job summary

Reality Defender is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own our cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure and to drive automation, security, and reliability. You will shape the deployment ecosystem, build IaC with Terraform, and manage Kubernetes from development through production.

You will collaborate with software and security teams, implement scalable CI/CD pipelines, and help navigate SOC2/ISO/FedRAMP readiness as the company grows.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, or related discipline.
• Expert-level experience with both AWS and Azure is required.
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture, networking, security, scalability, and reliability.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform or equivalent).
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and Docker/containerized environments.
• Deep experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with cloud networking (VPCs/VNets, DNS, load balancers, VPNs).
• Strong understanding of IAM, secrets management, encryption, least-privilege access, and cloud security.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms and practices.
• Strong scripting/programming skills (Python, Bash, Go).
• Experience operating production systems prioritizing reliability and uptime.
• Excellent incident response and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to own architecture through implementation and operations.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve our cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure.
• Design, implement and maintain secure, scalable, highly available cloud architectures.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and other tools.
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and release automation.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• Establish strong observability with monitoring, logging, alerting and metrics using DataDog.
• Automate repetitive operational work and reduce manual tasks.
• Lead incident response and troubleshoot complex production issues.
• Define long-term architecture and roadmaps for cloud and DevOps.
• Work with Compliance for SOC2, ISO, FedRAMP certifications.

Skills

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Linux

Networking

IAM & Security

Observability

Python/Bash/Go

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

DataDog

Job description

Reality Defender is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own our cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure and to drive automation, security, and reliability. You will shape the deployment ecosystem, build IaC with Terraform, and manage Kubernetes from development through production.

You will collaborate with software and security teams, implement scalable CI/CD pipelines, and help navigate SOC2/ISO/FedRAMP readiness as the company grows.