Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote Cloud & Security Lead

Localize; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

401(k) plan + 4% matching

100% company-paid health, dental, and-

Job summary

Localize is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to own and optimize our AWS and Cloudflare footprint, ensuring scalable, secure data stores and smooth release processes. You will lead security controls, incident response, and SOC 2 Type II readiness while partnering with product teams to improve the SDLC and developer productivity.

You will mentor teams, implement IaC with OpenTofu and Terragrunt, and enhance observability with Datadog, Grafana, and other tools.

Qualifications

• 5+ years engineering experience with 4+ years in a DevOps role.
• Proven AWS infrastructure management and optimization.
• Experience with Redis and MongoDB including backups and monitoring.
• In-depth IaC experience with OpenTofu and Terragrunt.
• Experience with deployment and release management, manual or automated.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD processes and tooling.
• Hands-on security practices for production infrastructure and vulnerability remediation.
• Ability to translate security/compliance needs into repeatable engineering practices for SOC 2 Type II readiness.
• Proven collaboration with product engineers to improve SDLC, reliability, and developer productivity.
• Customer-focused approach; communicate tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience optimizing performance, reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• CLI scripting proficiency.
• Disaster Recovery planning and data integrity.
• Familiarity with APM and logging tools (DataDog, New Relic, Sentry, Kibana).

Responsibilities

• Oversee and manage infrastructure across AWS and Cloudflare.
• Ensure scalability, reliability, and security of data stores like Redis and MongoDB.
• Own and improve deployment and release processes with automation and safe rollouts.
• Partner with product engineers to improve the full SDLC, CI/CD, and release readiness.
• Lead infrastructure security and SOC 2 Type II compliance, maintaining audit-ready evidence.
• Help lead incident response and blameless post-incident reviews.
• Prioritize improvements based on customer impact, risk, and cost-efficiency.
• Monitor uptime and performance using Datadog, Clickhouse, HyperDX, and more.
• Identify and implement infrastructure cost, reliability, and scalability improvements.
• Develop and maintain documentation of infrastructure and dependencies.
• Contribute to Developer Experience enhancements.
• Continuing learning of new technologies to boost infrastructure capabilities.

Skills

5+ years engineering experience

DevOps experience

AWS infrastructure

Redis

MongoDB backups

OpenTofu

Terragrunt

Deployment & release management

CI/CD

Production security

SOC 2 Type II readiness

SDLC collaboration

Customer focused

Performance optimization

CLI scripting

Disaster Recovery

DataDog

New Relic

Sentry

Kibana

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS Beanstalk

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Clickhouse

Datadog

HyperDX

Grafana

SOC2 Type II

Cloudflare DNS

Cloudflare Workers

Cloudflare Zero Trust

Stitch

Metabase

Snowflake

MongoDB Atlas

MongoDB Cloud Manager

TypeScript

React

Job description

Localize is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to own and optimize our AWS and Cloudflare footprint, ensuring scalable, secure data stores and smooth release processes. You will lead security controls, incident response, and SOC 2 Type II readiness while partnering with product teams to improve the SDLC and developer productivity.

You will mentor teams, implement IaC with OpenTofu and Terragrunt, and enhance observability with Datadog, Grafana, and other tools.