Senior Cloud Ops Engineer

About the role

Work model and locations

• Locations listed are Denver, Colorado (hybrid), San Antonio, Texas (hybrid), Brooklyn, New York, or remote within the United States.
• Local team members attend sprint planning and quarterly planning in person; remote team members travel quarterly for team meetings.

What you will do

• Own production system health and performance; define SLOs and build monitoring and alerting.
• Design and maintain automated delivery pipelines and infrastructure as code for secure, repeatable deployments.
• Manage cloud network topologies, including transit gateways, VPCs, subnets, security groups, and route tables.
• Automate recurring manual work to eliminate operational toil.
• Handle complex incident escalations, lead root cause analysis, and implement lasting systemic fixes.
• Collaborate with development teams on operational designs and communicate trade-offs.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in cloud operations, systems administration, or DevOps, focused on production workloads in mission-critical environments.
• Advanced AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM), CloudFormation or Terraform, and CI/CD proficiency.
• Deep understanding of VPC design, subnetting, Route 53, VPN or Direct Connect, and complex multi-account or hybrid connectivity troubleshooting.
• Proficiency in one or more of Node.js, Python, or Go.
• Strong observability experience, including logging, tracing, and metrics tuning with stacks such as Splunk, Datadog, or CloudWatch.
• Quarterly travel for Product Increment planning is required.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a DoD NIPR network account and CAC are required.
• Must have or be able to obtain a Secret Clearance.

Preferred qualifications

• Based in the Denver, San Antonio, or Brooklyn area.
• Experience in DoD, Air Force, or federal contractor environments.
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator or equivalent technical certification.

Compensation

• Pay range is $140,000–$170,000 per year; compensation depends on experience, skills, and location.