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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior DevOps Engineer - **Company:** CHEXOLOGY - **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $170,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Audit Trail, Backup Devices, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, DevOps, Key Management, MySQL, Platform as a Service (PAAS), Performance Tuning, Ruby on Rails, Twilio, Software Vulnerability Management, Circleci, Heroku, Integration Frameworks, Terraform, Automation Anywhere - **Published:** July 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=de1de4dee328dc60 ## About the Role * 5+ years in DevOps / SRE / platform / infrastructure roles, with ownership of production systems serving live customers. * Deep, hands-on experience with AWS (we use Aurora MySQL, S3, and more) and with a PaaS deployment model (we use Heroku today). * Strong with CI/CD pipelines (we use CircleCI). * Solid observability chops. You've built monitoring/alerting/tracing that people trust. * Database operations experience: upgrades, performance tuning, backups, replication. MySQL/Aurora experience preferred. * Refined security instincts: secrets management, access control, vulnerability management, and the practical judgment to know which battles matter at a startup our size. Experience with SOC 2 is a strong plus. * Comfortable in and around an application and its background-job system, or a willingness to learn. You don't need to be a Rails expert, but you can't be allergic to reading and writing application code. * Excellent written communication and the temperament to work autonomously on a small team with very little hand-holding. You take a vague problem and turn it into a plan. * A bias toward eliminating toil. When you do something manually twice, you want to automate it the third time., * Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar). * Experience migrating workloads (e.g., off a PaaS to containerized/managed infrastructure) without downtime. * Background supporting B2B SaaS with lots of third-party integrations (hospitality property management systems, messaging/Twilio, payments). * Hospitality, point-of-sale, or device-fleet (mobile/kiosk) experience. * Experience standing up SOC 2 Type II at a small company. ## Description * Own our infrastructure and make it reproducible. Bring infrastructure-as-code discipline to our AWS and Heroku footprint. Reduce the number of things that exist only as tribal knowledge or manual console steps. * Build the observability layer. Finish and mature our observability tools: meaningful dashboards, actionable alerting with low false-positive noise, and tracing that lets us find the root cause of a customer-reported issue in minutes. * Tame background processing. Give us proper visibility and self-service control over our job queues - the ability to see, retry, and clear stuck jobs from a UI instead of a console, plus the queue architecture changes that stop one slow integration from starving everything else. * Harden our security posture. Lead concrete infrastructure security improvements: secrets management, access controls, audit logging, dependency and vulnerability management. Partner with our engineers to turn enterprise security questionnaires from a multi-day slog into a routine task, and lay the groundwork for SOC 2. * Answer security and infrastructure questions from clients and prospective clients as needed. * Own database operations. Manage our Aurora MySQL fleet - upgrades, performance, backups, read replicas, and the read-only/PII-free schemas we use to safely expose data to internal tooling and AI workflows. * Make CI/CD boring and fast. Improve build times and reliability, strengthen our review-app and staging environments so QA can test against realistic data, and keep deploys safe and reversible. * Improve reliability and incident response. Work with our team to establish lightweight runbooks, on-call practices, and post-incident reviews appropriate to our size. Help us measure and improve uptime for venues that run live every night. * Keep an eye on cost. Right-size our infrastructure spend as we scale, without compromising reliability. * Pitch in. We're small. You'll occasionally touch application code (Ruby on Rails), help debug a gnarly customer issue, and share in the support rotation and occasional off-hours maintenance & issue resolution. We want a builder who's hands-on, not a purely strategic architect. Your first 90 days might look like * Month 1: Learn the system end-to-end, take a few customer-support shifts to see where the operational pain actually is, and ship one quick win, such as tooling to help our client success department address issues themselves without escalating. * Month 2: Stand up a coherent alerting and dashboards baseline, and take ownership of an infrastructure upgrade or a CI reliability project. * Month 3: Deliver a concrete security-hardening milestone (audit logging, for example) that materially improves how we answer enterprise security questionnaires., We're a small, hands-on team. This is not a role where you'll architect from a whiteboard and hand specs to others to implement. You'll build it yourself. It's also not a role where security means writing aspirational policy documents; here it means shipping the controls. If you want a large platform org with deep specialization, this isn't the fit. If you want to single-handedly stand up real infrastructure discipline at a company that will feel the difference immediately, it is. What It's Like to Work On Our Engineering Team * You'll share real ownership of meaningful systems. You won't just work tickets. * Your ideas will help shape the product and technical direction. * We've built a team that people want to stay on. 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