Senior DevOps Engineer

Clera

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

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of ownership of production infrastructure, with recent hands-on work
  • Deep expertise in Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
  • Experience managing AWS infrastructure for B2B SaaS products
  • Proven ability to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines
  • Broad understanding of DevOps across infrastructure, deployment, and monitoring
  • Prior experience at VC-backed startups or mid-sized tech companies
  • Current residency in the greater NYC area

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using IaC (Terraform/Terragrunt) on AWS
  • Design and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines, automating workflows
  • Ensure production reliability with observability stacks and incident response
  • Implement and promote GitOps workflows for infrastructure deployments
  • Build compliance-ready infrastructure with IAM and secrets management
  • Optimize cloud costs while ensuring performance and reliability
  • Create developer tooling and documentation to accelerate workflows

Benefits

  • Equity participation in a well-funded, early-stage startup
  • Opportunity to significantly influence technical strategies as a foundational hire
  • Hands-on role with ownership over infrastructure in a fast-growing company
Full Job Description
About the Role

This is a high-ownership, hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer role at a fast-growing, AI-native consumer intelligence SaaS startup (11-50 employees) headquartered in New York City. The platform is trusted by enterprise-scale customers - including Fortune 500 retailers - for critical data and decision-making workflows.

You'll own the infrastructure end-to-end: architecting, building, and maintaining the cloud systems that keep the platform secure, scalable, and highly reliable. You'll work closely with backend and ML engineers, championing GitOps and infrastructure-as-code across the organization.
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 help guide overall infrastructure strategy
What We're Looking For

Required
  • 5+ years owning infrastructure end-to-end in production environments (hands-on work within the last 2 years, not purely architectural)
  • Deep expertise with Kubernetes (EKS strongly preferred)
  • Proven experience building and managing AWS infrastructure for B2B SaaS products
  • Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines in production
  • Broad DevOps scope: infrastructure, deployment, and monitoring - not just CI/CD
  • Experience at VC-backed startups or mid-sized technology companies
  • Currently resides in the greater NYC area

Nice to Have
  • Deep hands-on expertise with Terraform and Terragrunt
  • Familiarity with Python and/or Bash scripting
  • Background in AI/ML platform infrastructure or high-volume data pipeline environments
  • Experience at companies such as Meltwater, Qualtrics, Medallia, NielsenIQ, Kantar, Talkwalker, or similar enterprise SaaS / consumer intelligence firms

Note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
Compensation & Benefits
  • Salary: $160,000 - $200,000 USD annually, depending on experience
  • Equity participation at a well-funded, early-stage startup
  • Opportunity to be a foundational infrastructure hire with significant technical influence
Location

This is an on-site role based in New York City, NY. Candidates must currently reside in the greater NYC area.

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