Senior DevOps Engineer

Avantos.ai is building the industry’s first AI-native operating system for financial services, and they are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and evolve their infrastructure and deployment practices. The role involves designing and maintaining AWS cloud infrastructure, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring security compliance in financial services.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain our AWS cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code principles with Terraform
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid, safe deployments across multiple environments
• Own observability strategy—implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using Datadog and other tooling
• Architect and manage containerized workloads on ECS Fargate and evaluate migration paths to Kubernetes
• Establish and enforce security best practices, working closely with compliance teams on financial services requirements
• Design and implement disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies
• Optimize system performance, cost efficiency, and resource utilization across AWS services
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve service reliability, reduce toil, and establish SLOs/SLIs
• Participate in incident response and conduct thorough post-mortems to drive continuous improvement
• Mentor engineers on DevOps practices, cloud architecture patterns, and operational excellence

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles
• Expert-level proficiency with AWS services including ECS Fargate, ALB, Cognito, S3, SQS, and related services
• Deep hands-on experience with Terraform for managing complex, multi-account AWS environments
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python and/or Bash
• Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar)
• Solid understanding of containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes/ECS)
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Datadog, CloudWatch, or equivalent)
• Deep knowledge of networking, security, and AWS best practices
• Strong problem-solving abilities and experience troubleshooting complex distributed systems
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with engineering teams
• Experience in financial services or highly regulated industries
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message queue systems (Kafka, SQS)
• Experience with PostgreSQL performance tuning and RDS management
• Knowledge of microservices architecture patterns and service mesh technologies
• Experience with security tooling, vulnerability scanning, and compliance frameworks
• Familiarity with our application stack (Golang, Next.js, PostgreSQL)
• Experience managing AI/ML infrastructure and AWS Bedrock