Senior DevOps Engineer
About the Position
Own, design, and evolve our production cloud platform (AWS), Kubernetes, and IaC (Terraform) so teams ship reliably, safely, and fast.
What you’ll do
- Architect, build, and run resilient, scalable cloud infrastructure; drive AWS Well-Architected pillars (operational excellence, security, reliability, performance, cost, sustainability).
- Champion GitOps (e.g., Argo CD): declarative configs, PR-driven changes, continuous reconciliation.
- Implement and evolve CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Argo CD), secrets management, policy-as-code, and environment promotion.
- Build first-class observability (OpenTelemetry + Prometheus) across apps and infra.
- Partner with internal and external teams (engineers, data, vendors, customers) to deliver platform capabilities and service.
- Lead/mentor engineers; drive Terraform standards, modules, and reviews.
- Optimize cost and efficiency (FinOps) while maintaining reliability.
- Define SLOs/SLIs and error budgets; lead incident readiness, response, and post-mortems.
Requirements
What you bring (must-haves)
- 10+ years hands-on DevOps/SRE managing large-scale production workloads.
- Strong background in software development with extensive experience developing and maintaining production-grade applications
- Deep production experience: AWS (or major public cloud), Kubernetes, Terraform.
- Proven ownership: design → implement → release → operate → improve (independent and team-based).
- Excellent communication; comfortable collaborating with internal & external stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Linux, networking (DNS/HTTP/TCP/IP), and security fundamentals.
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions/Argo CD; service mesh; policy-as-code.
- Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana.
- SRE practices (SLOs/error budgets); experience improving DORA-style outcomes.
- FinOps experience;
- Python/Node.js;
About Alice
THE CHALLENGES ALONG THE WAY
1. Being Both Strategist and Executioner
One of the hardest parts of this role is that you’re both the visionary and the builder; the one drawing the map and paving the road.
That means switching between high-level strategy and hands-on experimentation daily, and doing it while bringing others along with you. There’s no playbook for this kind of work. You’re paving an unpaved road, one small experiment at a time.
2. Balancing Security and Innovation
ActiveFence is the leading provider of security and safety solutions for online experiences, safeguarding more than 3 billion users, top foundation models, and the world’s largest enterprises and tech platforms every day.
As a trusted ally to major technology firms and Fortune 500 brands that build user-generated and GenAI products, ActiveFence empowers security, AI, and policy teams with low-latency Real-Time Guardrails and a continuous Red Teaming program that pressure-tests systems with adversarial prompts and emerging threat techniques. Powered by deep threat intelligence, unmatched harmful-content detection, and coverage of 117+ languages, ActiveFence enables organizations to deliver engaging and trustworthy experiences at global scale while operating safely and responsibly across all threat landscapes.