Senior Devops Engineer

About the role:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Nightfall, you will design, build, and maintain the tools that make our engineering team efficient. You will be responsible for building and managing environments in AWS. This position is highly technical and a balance between engineering and operations. The ideal candidate is self-motivated and open to leading other team members. You'll be the backbone of the engineering team, and we are looking for a senior engineer passionate about CICD, scalable configs as code, and developer-facing tooling.

Responsibilities:

Drive, implement, support and maintain infrastructure services with a primary focus on technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, Linkerd, Docker, Kafka, Postgres, etc.

Collaborate and evangelize the right cloud solutions throughout the business by creating a visionary direction and road map for Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Implement automation to perform the day to day operations functions of the cloud platform working across all teams

Develop, monitor and build alerts around error conditions and performance

Work in a fast-paced environment while participating in conceptualizing and building CI/CD pipelines

Be on-call as needed to support the infrastructure and our systems and drive philosophies around site reliability

Own database infrastructure management — provisioning and patching.

Act as the primary infrastructure support resource for engineering teams.

Manage security hygiene: dependency vulnerability remediation, KMS secrets management, IAM/IRSA role governance, and SOC 2 compliance evidence

Requirements:

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

5+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering

5+ years of experience with public cloud (AWS)

2+ years of experience working with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tooling such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.

2+ year experience with container technologies such as Docker, Podman, or LXC

Experience working in high availability and scalable SaaS or consumer technologies

Experience deploying high available and scalable, secure and reliable services with automatic failover using containers and container orchestration tools like K8s

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong working knowledge using service meshes including Linkerd

5+ years experience with Go, Python or similar high-level language

5+ years of experience with Bash or equivalent shell scripting languages

Good working knowledge of Virtualization technologies such ask KVM, Hyper-V, or VMWare

Experience architecting, implementing, and managing environments in AWS

Robust knowledge of Terraform

5+ years of experience with GCP, experience with Microsoft Azure

Hands-on experience implementing AWS services such as: EC2 Load Balancing, VPC, Route 53, Direct Connect, NAT Gateway, VPN, EC2 Networking, Lambda

Working experience deploying container applications with Helm charts.

Experience managing database infrastructure: PostgreSQL (RDS/Aurora), Cassandra or compatible (AWS Keyspaces, Astra DB)

Experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog, ELK stack, and Open Telemetry based solutions and on-call tooling like PagerDuty

Environment

Nightfall AI takes pride in being an equal-opportunity employer. We value a diverse and global talent pool and the collaboration that results from having a diverse and inclusive team. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. Our hiring decisions are based exclusively on merit, qualifications, and business needs.

Compensation

Employee compensation will be determined based on interview performance, level of experience, specialization of skills, and market rate. During the offer discussion, your recruiter will review the finalized base salary, bonus (for applicable roles), benefits & perks, and stock options as they’ll be reflected in the offer letter.