DescriptionJOB TITLE: Senior DevOps Engineer
LOCATION: New York/ New Jersey (Hybrid)
REPORTS TO: Head of Infrastructure Company
The Role: Sunbit is looking for an experienced, independent Senior DevOps Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment. You will join our centralized DevOps team, serving as a pillar of reliability and innovation for the entire engineering organization.
This is a 50/50 "Build vs. Run" role. Splitting your time between building modern automation and improving our developer experience and operational excellence, ensuring our production environments are rock-solid, secure, and highly available while managing the live environment from server infrastructure all the way to the application.
RequirementsWhat You'll Own:- Design and implement next-generation CI/CD automation flows to streamline the path from "Code" to "Production."
- Lead the evolution of our Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) to make our systems more modular and self-service for developers.
- Collaborate with backend teams to architect scalable microservices and optimize datastore performance (RDS, MongoDB).
- Embrace AI-powered development tools (Cursor, Claude Code) to automate toil and accelerate infrastructure delivery.
- Full ownership of our AWS accounts and multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
- Manage and fine-tune live production environments, ensuring 99.9% uptime for our mission-critical fintech services.
- Drive our Observability strategy (Datadog/Grafana) to proactively catch issues before they impact our customers.
- Participate in a weekly on-call rotation, serving as the first line of defense for platform reliability.
What You 'll Bring:- 5+ years of experience managing high-scale production systems.
- Mastery of AWS: Deep knowledge of AWS services, security best practices, and account management.
- Orchestration & Containers: Expert-level experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and Docker.
- Automation-First Mindset: Proficiency in Terraform and at least one high-level language (Python, Go, or Bash).
- Database Ops: Solid understanding of the DevOps aspects of MySQL/RDS and MongoDB (scaling, backups, performance tuning).
- SRE Discipline: Strong experience with monitoring and logging stacks like Datadog, Grafana, or Prometheus.
- Team Player: Strong communication skills and a "can-do" attitude-you enjoy solving problems as part of a collaborative squad.
Advantages:- Security Knowledge: Experience with FW, WAF, IPS/IDS, and SELinux.
- Data Infrastructure: Familiarity with Data tools like Kafka, Spark, Snowflake or Data Lakes.
- Multi-Cloud: Familiarity with hybrid or multi-cloud architectures.
The Perks:- Join one of LA's fastest growing startups (2023), A Most Loved Workplace, #576 on the 2023 Inc 5000 list, and Forbes Fintech 50 (2024)
- Mission driven + empowered + collaborative
- Competitive pay and stock options
- Unlimited PTO
- Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, EAP, FSA, & Parental Leave
- Newly added HSA and Pet Insurance
- 401K Plan with Matching
- Cell Phone Stipend
- Casual Dress
- Team based strategic planning + Team owned deliverables
How We Pay:- We believe in paying fairly and equitably based on a number of factors including but not limited to previous experience, relevant work history, interview performance, geographical location, internal equity, and expected level of ownership.
- We are targeting a salary of $150,000-195,000 per year for this role
- This role will also be granted company equity via stock options
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