AHEAD
Senior DevOps Engineer
$140K–$160K
United States · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
About the job
Own and improve the AWS cloud foundation, delivery pipelines, observability, security, and reliability for AHEAD’s Hatch, Unity, and internal services.
What you'll do
- Manage AWS infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, observability, security, and cost/performance optimization.
- Automate deployments and operations; share on-call, lead incident response and postmortems, and troubleshoot production issues.
- Support AWS relational databases and collaborate with software engineers on platform operations and reliability.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering, with deep hands-on AWS experience.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code skills and experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines for production systems.
- Experience with observability tooling, cloud security, containerized workloads using Docker and Amazon ECS on Fargate, and production relational databases.
- Comfortable with scripting and modern AI development tools; able to verify work, participate in on-call, and communicate clearly.
Nice to have
- GitLab CI, Datadog, Terraform or similar, Kubernetes, and SOC2 or similar compliance experience.
- Experience debugging Elixir/BEAM or JVM services.
Pay
USD 140,000–160,000 per-year-salary (OTE, including base salary and any applicable target bonus)
Tools
AWS, CloudFormation, GitLab CI, Datadog, Docker, Amazon ECS on Fargate, Amazon RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL
AI focus
Use AI tools and coding agents to accelerate templates, scripts, runbooks, and research; verify outputs and help improve team AI tooling, prompts, and workflows.
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