DevOps Engineer

Experience: 10+ years in Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Platform Engineering

Core Areas: AWS Cloud Infrastructure, Terraform & Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes & Docker, CI/CD & Git Ops, Observability & SLOs, Incident Response & Reliability Engineering, Cloud Security & Compliance, High-Availability Distributed Systems

Compensation: $180,000–$220,000 annually; equity opportunities available

This Staff Dev Ops Engineer position focuses on designing, operating, and scaling cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and reliability systems supporting a real-time, high-throughput trading platform. The role provides hands‑on technical leadership across AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes operations, infrastructure automation, CI/CD delivery, and production reliability, with ownership of systems that require high availability, low latency, and secure software releases.

The position involves close collaboration with backend engineering, security, and compliance teams to establish platform standards, strengthen observability, improve operational resilience, and support CFTC‑regulated exchange infrastructure. Key technologies include Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Git Hub Actions, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, and Open Telemetry, alongside automation and performance optimization for distributed production environments.

• Design, provision, maintain, and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools across production, staging, and development environments.
• Operate and scale Kubernetes clusters, managing upgrades, autoscaling, networking, troubleshooting, resource allocation, and infrastructure cost optimization.
• Build, maintain, and improve end‑to‑end CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, testing, deployment, and reliable software delivery.
• Implement safe deployment strategies, including canary releases, blue/green deployments, and rapid rollback procedures to reduce production risk.
• Develop comprehensive observability capabilities using metrics, centralized logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, and actionable alerting aligned with service‑level objectives (SLOs) for latency and availability.
• Manage and optimize infrastructure supporting event‑driven and real‑time distributed systems, including Kafka, SQL and No
  
  SQL databases, caching layers, and Web Socket edge services.
• Participate in production on‑call rotations, lead incident response, troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, and conduct blameless postmortems to implement lasting reliability improvements.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to implement identity and access controls, secrets management, least‑privilege permissions, audit logging, vulnerability management, and disaster recovery practices aligned with CFTC‑regulated requirements.
• Plan infrastructure capacity, conduct performance and scalability testing, and prepare critical systems for high‑volume sports events and periods of elevated transaction activity.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks, improve infrastructure management workflows, and reduce manual intervention across production environments.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership in cloud architecture, platform engineering standards, production operations, and secure software delivery practices.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to improve deployment efficiency, infrastructure performance, and the reliability of low‑latency trading services.
• Create and maintain operational documentation, technical procedures, incident response runbooks, and knowledge‑sharing resources to support engineering teams.

Required Experience

• 10+ years of professional experience in Dev Ops Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering…