AWS DevOps & Security Engineer

Location: Hybrid in New York, NY

Salary: Up to $180,000 + Equity

Industry: GenAI / Automation

Who You’ll Join

This AI-native platform automates and accelerates complex processes like RFPs for 100+ paying customers across mid-market and enterprise sectors. Become a key technical leader in a company driving innovation and growth with global investor support.

What You’ll Do

• Maintain and evolve AWS architecture and core services with high availability and cost awareness
• Lead Infrastructure as Code initiatives using Terraform or Pulumi with enforceable, auditable infra changes
• Design, harden, and run CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), incorporating build/test, artifact management, and safe deployments
• Implement shift-left security practices, including SAST/DAST, dependency/container scanning, secrets management, and policy-as-code
• Support SOC 2 compliance by driving controls, evidence collection, alerting, and RBAC/least-privilege access
• Enhance system resilience with improved monitoring, logging, alerting, incident runbooks, and disaster recovery
• Partner cross-functionally with engineering and product teams to balance speed, security, and operational excellence

Who You Are

• 4+ years in DevOps, Site Reliability, or DevSecOps roles with strong AWS and cloud security expertise
• Skilled in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Pulumi) and configuration management (Ansible)
• Experienced in CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, CircleCI) with deployment/versioning safety
• Security-focused with vulnerability management, image scanning (Trivy), secrets management, and least-privilege IAM
• Proficient with observability tools (CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Sentry) and compliance frameworks (SOC 2)
• Strong scripting & automation abilities (Bash, Python) with clear, pragmatic technical documentation

Nice to Have

• Container orchestration (ECS/EKS), service mesh, zero-trust networking
• Policy-as-code (OPA, Conftest), RBAC/ABAC design, WAF experience
• Infrastructure cost optimization and capacity planning
• Security knowledge for AI/LLM workloads including prompt hygiene and data egress controls
• Experience automating compliance evidence collection

Why You’ll Thrive

• Be a key security technical leader in a fast-growing startup pushing AI automation at scale
• Shape the architecture and security of AI-powered products trusted by over 100 customers
• Work within a tight-knit, autonomous engineering culture that values excellence, innovation, and empowerment
• Drive transformative advancements in Generative AI and enterprise automation security
• Enjoy a flexible hybrid work model and a competitive compensation package including equity
• Join a company on a high-growth trajectory with recent funding success and a new Manhattan office