Senior DevOps Lead — AI-Driven Platform & Security

Digital Agency Jobs; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great benefits

Hybrid/Remote options

Learning & development resources

Job summary

Real Chemistry is hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer to shape deployment, security, and reliability across client environments. You will own platform operations, work with client security teams, and drive observability and CI/CD in a growing, regulated setting.

You will lead a small team, emphasize responsible AI-driven changes, and coordinate with IT and security partners to ensure audit readiness while maintaining high deployment velocity.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering with leadership experience.
• Experience running serverless or managed-service infrastructure in production.
• Experience deploying software inside client environments and coordinating with security/Infra teams.
• Track record hiring engineers and running technical interview loops.
• Comfort directing AI-assisted infrastructure changes with human-in-the-loop when needed.
• Ability to adapt standards to constraints without losing thread.
• Bonus: pharma or regulated marketing data experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and drive platform deployment across multiple environments, parameterized and repeatable.
• Collaborate with client infrastructure and security teams to go live without forking the product.
• Oversee data stores backup, restore, failover testing, capacity, and secure connectivity.
• Lead platform observability, security, and CI/CD with cross-team partners for audit readiness.
• Establish incident response and on-call practices as the team grows.
• Set guardrails for AI-assisted changes to infrastructure code.

Skills

DevOps leadership

SRE

Serverless infra

Client environments

Hiring and interviewing

AI-driven changes

Adaptability

Regulated marketing exposure

Job description

Real Chemistry is hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer to shape deployment, security, and reliability across client environments. You will own platform operations, work with client security teams, and drive observability and CI/CD in a growing, regulated setting.

You will lead a small team, emphasize responsible AI-driven changes, and coordinate with IT and security partners to ensure audit readiness while maintaining high deployment velocity.