Software Engineer II, DevOps

morningconsult; United States; Hybrid; USD 93,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Kubernetes experience

Equity grant

Job summary

Morning Consult is seeking a mid-level DevOps Engineer to build and improve cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and internal tooling to support AI-enabled products safely and frequently. This role collaborates with product and data engineers and owns infrastructure projects from initial scoping through rollout.

You will maintain infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines, contribute to architecture discussions, and enhance observability, incident response, and security.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with AWS core services (compute, containers, storage, IAM, networking).
• 2–4 years of DevOps engineering experience in a small or mid-size org.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform or CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven ability to own projects end to end and explain tradeoffs to engineers outside infra.
• Curiosity about AI and experience using AI tools to speed up technical work.

Responsibilities

• Maintain infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines enabling frequent releases.
• Influence architecture decisions early with infra considerations.
• Improve observability, alerting, incident response; investigate root causes.
• Lead defined infrastructure projects from planning through deployment.
• Keep AWS environment secure, reliable, and cost-conscious.
• Review infra code and share AI tool usage for infra tasks.

Skills

AWS core services

DevOps experience

Infra as code

End-to-end ownership

AI tooling curiosity

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD

Job description

Role overview

Build and improve the cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and internal tooling that help engineering teams deliver AI-enabled products safely and frequently. This mid-level DevOps role works alongside product and data engineers, contributes to architecture choices, and owns infrastructure projects from initial scoping through rollout.

Responsibilities

• Maintain infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines that support reliable, frequent releases.
• Bring infrastructure considerations into architecture discussions early in product development.
• Improve observability, alerting, and incident response; investigate root causes and share lessons learned.
• Lead defined infrastructure projects from planning through deployment.
• Help keep the AWS environment secure, reliable, and cost-conscious.
• Review infrastructure code and share effective uses of AI tools for infrastructure work, debugging, or automation.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with core AWS services such as compute, container services, storage, identity and access management, and networking.
• Two to four years of DevOps engineering experience; experience in a small or midsize organization is useful.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Evidence of owning projects end to end and explaining technical tradeoffs to engineers outside infrastructure.
• Curiosity about AI and experience using AI tools to speed up technical work.

Nice to have

• Kubernetes experience.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote work is available, as are office-based options in Washington, DC, New York, or Chicago.
• The role is eligible for an equity grant. The posting gives a salary range of $93,300–$150,100, with a midpoint of $121,700.