Halcyon

Senior DevOps Engineer

Halcyon

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $180,000 - $220,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Build, operate, and maintain our infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and automation within the DevOps function.
  • Help us build secure infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, Kubernetes, and related tooling.
  • Own and improve CI/CD workflows, enabling fast and reliable deployments across teams.
  • Advise and support your fellow DevOps engineers, fostering autonomy, quality, and professional growth.
  • Define and track operational metrics, including deployment success rate, infrastructure cost, scaling efficiency, and recovery time.
  • Drive incident readiness and response, ensuring strong observability and alerting across systems.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to align infrastructure goals with broader product and platform objectives.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and DevOps engineering
  • Deep experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform preferred).
  • Proficient with Kubernetes and deployment tooling such as Helm.
  • You know CI/CD inside and out—GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, whatever gets the job done.
  • You can script in Python, Bash, or something similar.
  • Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog, or ELK/OpenSearch.
  • Strong understanding of cloud security practices: IAM, encryption, secure network design, compliance.
  • Proven ability to mentor, lead technical initiatives, and drive strategic outcomes.
  • Solid understanding of systems performance and reliability, with experience improving deployment reliability and infrastructure scalability.
  • Comfortable working in a polyglot environment (e.g., Scala, Rust, Python).
  • You’ve got strong opinions on infrastructure—and the humility to evolve them.
  • You care about security, performance, and doing things the right way.
  • You’re collaborative, curious, and not afraid to get in the weeds.
Benefits
  • Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents.
  • Short and long-term disability coverage, basic life and AD&D insurance plans.
  • Medical and dependent care FSA options.
  • 401k plan with a generous employer contribution.
  • Flexible PTO policy.
  • Parental leave.
  • Generous equity offerings.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSTerraformKubernetesCI/CDGitHub ActionsArgoCDJenkinsPythonBashobservability
Soft Skills
mentoringleadershipcollaborationcuriosityproblem-solvingcommunicationautonomyquality assurancestrategic thinkingadaptability