Senior DevOps Engineer
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Job description
Kai is seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and reliable infrastructure for our cybersecurity platform. This role bridges development, operations, and security - ensuring fast and secure delivery of software in a security-driven environment where your decisions directly impact the products protecting some of the world's largest enterprises.
You will play a key role in embedding security into the DevOps lifecycle (DevSecOps), improving system resilience, and supporting mission-critical applications.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with a focus on security and scalability
- Design and own network architecture - including environment segregation, service communication patterns, and infrastructure security design in partnership with the security team
- Automate infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, including GitOps-based continuous deployment using ArgoCD, to enable rapid and secure software delivery
- Own and optimize the observability stack - metrics, logs, and distributed tracing - as a highest-priority investment in system visibility, incident response, and reliability
- Collaborate with engineering and security teams to enforce DevSecOps best practices and embed security into every stage of the delivery lifecycle
- Work with the security team to balance deployment speed with security constraints across environments, solving the security-speed tension in POC and production deployments
- Collaborate closely with engineering teams to increase developer velocity - faster code pushes, cleaner CI/CD, and fewer deployment blockers
- Ensure systems meet security and compliance standards (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP)
- Integrate security tools (e.g., vulnerability scanning, secrets management) into pipelines
- Troubleshoot production issues and lead root-cause analysis for complex incidents
- Optimize system performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Mentor junior engineers and promote DevOps culture across teams
Requirements
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
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7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering
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Strong experience with:
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Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
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Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
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CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions)
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GitOps and continuous deployment tooling - ArgoCD or equivalent
Experience designing network architecture - environment segregation, service communication, and infrastructure security patterns
Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management
Proficiency in scripting/programming (Python, Bash, or Go)
Deep understanding of Linux systems and networking
Experience implementing and optimizing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions, including distributed tracing
Strong problem-solving skills in complex distributed systems - CI/CD pipeline optimization, system reliability, performance tuning, and cross-team collaboration
Cloud security mindset - understanding of cloud security, compliance, and DevSecOps practices
Preferred:
- Experience in cybersecurity or DevSecOps environments
- Familiarity with zero-trust architecture and identity/access management
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, NIST, SOC 2)
- Experience with secrets management tools (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
- Background in incident response and security operations
Benefits & conditions
- Generous compensation: We offer highly competitive salaries, equity options, and a supportive work environment. Your contributions will be valued and rewarded as we grow together.