Senior DevOps Engineer

TaxGPT is revolutionizing the tax and accounting space with AI-driven solutions tailored for accountants, tax professionals, and SMBs. They are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to build, scale, and secure their infrastructure and deployment systems while improving reliability and performance across the company.

Responsibilities:

• Own the design, implementation, and long-term health of cloud infrastructure and internal platform systems
• Build and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure across development, staging, and production environments
• Improve infrastructure automation, environment consistency, and operational resilience
• Manage networking, compute, storage, observability, and access controls across core systems
• Design, improve, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe, and repeatable deployments
• Build tooling and workflows that improve developer experience and reduce operational friction
• Standardize release processes, deployment practices, and rollback strategies
• Identify bottlenecks in development and deployment workflows and drive improvements
• Improve system reliability, availability, and performance through strong operational practices
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response systems
• Lead root cause analysis and drive permanent fixes for recurring operational issues
• Establish and improve standards around uptime, recovery, and production readiness
• Implement infrastructure security best practices across environments and workflows
• Strengthen access controls, secrets management, auditability, and system hardening
• Partner with engineering leadership to reduce operational and security risk
• Support compliance, backup, disaster recovery, and resilience initiatives where needed
• Lead architectural decisions related to infrastructure, deployment systems, and platform reliability
• Partner with engineering leaders to shape long-term infrastructure strategy
• Mentor engineers on infrastructure, deployment, observability, and operational best practices
• Raise the team’s standards through documentation, design reviews, code reviews, and process improvements
• Works independently on complex infrastructure and reliability problems
• Identifies risks and improvements before they become urgent issues
• Translates broad engineering goals into clear technical plans
• Owns critical infrastructure, deployment systems, and platform reliability
• Takes responsibility for scalability, resilience, maintainability, and operational health
• Drives long-term fixes, not just short-term patches
• Guides engineers on infrastructure and operational best practices
• Improves team effectiveness through documentation, reviews, and technical support
• Collaborates closely with engineering, product, and leadership teams
• Makes sound decisions on cloud architecture, deployment strategy, observability, and security
• Evaluates tradeoffs carefully across cost, speed, reliability, and complexity
• Builds systems that scale with company needs

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
• Strong experience designing and managing production infrastructure in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Deep experience with CI/CD systems, infrastructure automation, and deployment pipelines
• Strong knowledge of containers and orchestration, including tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation
• Strong experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools
• Experience improving reliability, security, and scalability in production systems
• Strong scripting or coding ability in languages such as Python, Bash, or Go
• Strong understanding of networking, system design, access control, and cloud security fundamentals
• Experience supporting fast-moving startup engineering teams
• Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure tooling
• Familiarity with modern security and compliance practices
• Experience with incident management, postmortems, and operational maturity improvements
• Experience working closely with backend and application engineering teams to improve system design and delivery quality