Senior DevOps Engineer

Clera

$160K — $200K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in a senior DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering role with complete infrastructure ownership
  • Deep expertise with Kubernetes, preferably EKS
  • Broad experience in networking, security, monitoring, and IaC
  • Proven history managing AWS infrastructure at scale
  • Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • Recent hands-on work in infrastructure engineering

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using Terraform/Terragrunt on AWS
  • Design and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for automation
  • Own production reliability, including observability and incident response
  • Implement GitOps workflows for all infrastructure deployments
  • Build compliance-ready infrastructure considering SOC 2 and GDPR
  • Optimize cloud costs while ensuring performance and reliability
  • Create tooling and documentation to enhance engineering workflows
  • Mentor team members on DevOps best practices

Benefits

  • Equity participation in a venture-backed startup
  • Opportunity to shape infrastructure for a scaling AI platform
Full Job Description
About the Role

This is a high-ownership, hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer position at a fast-growing, AI-native B2B SaaS company in the consumer intelligence space - think competitors to Meltwater, NielsenIQ, and Qualtrics. You'll own the cloud infrastructure that enterprise-scale customers rely on for critical data and decision-making. Working closely with backend and ML engineers, you'll be the person who makes GitOps, infrastructure as code, and true production reliability a reality for the entire engineering organization.

The team is small (under 50 people) and technically ambitious, with engineers from backgrounds including Microsoft, IBM, and other high-caliber technology organizations. You'll have a direct, outsized impact on how the platform is built and scaled.
What You'll Do
  • Architect and build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using IaC (Terraform/Terragrunt) on AWS
  • Design and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines; convert manual processes into automated, repeatable workflows
  • Own production reliability - set up observability stacks, define SLI/SLOs, and lead incident response
  • Implement and champion GitOps workflows for all infrastructure deployments
  • Build compliance-ready infrastructure (SOC 2, GDPR) with IAM best practices and secrets management
  • Optimize cloud costs while maintaining performance and reliability at scale
  • Create developer tooling and documentation that accelerates engineering workflows across the team
  • Mentor team members on DevOps best practices and guide infrastructure strategy
What We're Looking For

Required
  • 5+ years in a senior DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering role with end-to-end infrastructure ownership
  • Deep expertise with Kubernetes - EKS experience strongly preferred
  • Broad experience across multiple infrastructure domains: networking, security, monitoring, IaC - not just CI/CD
  • Proven track record building and managing AWS infrastructure at scale
  • Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • Recent, active hands-on work in an infrastructure engineering role

Nice to Have
  • Deep hands-on expertise with Terraform and Terragrunt
  • Experience building and managing infrastructure for B2B SaaS products
  • Familiarity with Docker, Python, Bash scripting, and Jenkins
  • Background supporting AI/ML workloads or data-intensive platforms

Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this role. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.
Compensation & Benefits
  • Salary: $160,000 - $200,000 USD annually, depending on experience
  • Equity participation in an early-stage, venture-backed company
  • Opportunity to shape the infrastructure of a rapidly scaling AI platform from the ground up
Location

This is an on-site role based in New York, NY. Candidates should be local to or willing to relocate to the New York City area.

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