Senior Devops Engineer

The role

You will design, build, and maintain tools to make the engineering team efficient. You will build and manage environments in AWS.

What you will do

• Drive, implement, support and maintain infrastructure services with a focus on AWS, Kubernetes, Linkerd, Docker, Kafka, and Postgres
• Collaborate and evangelize cloud solutions by creating a direction and road map for Infrastructure-as-a-Service
• Implement automation to perform day to day operations functions of the cloud platform
• Develop, monitor and build alerts around error conditions and performance
• Participate in conceptualizing and building CI/CD pipelines
• Be on-call as needed to support the infrastructure and systems
• Own database infrastructure management including provisioning and patching
• Act as the primary infrastructure support resource for engineering teams
• Manage security hygiene including dependency vulnerability remediation, KMS secrets management, IAM/IRSA role governance, and SOC 2 compliance evidence

Required qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering
• 5+ years of experience with public cloud (AWS)
• 2+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tooling such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.
• 2+ year experience with container technologies such as Docker, Podman, or LXC
• Experience working in high availability and scalable SaaS or consumer technologies
• Experience deploying high available and scalable, secure and reliable services with automatic failover using containers and container orchestration tools like K8s

Nice to have

• Strong working knowledge using service meshes including Linkerd
• 5+ years experience with Go, Python or similar high-level language
• 5+ years of experience with Bash or equivalent shell scripting languages
• Good working knowledge of Virtualization technologies such ask KVM, Hyper-V, or VMWare
• Experience architecting, implementing, and managing environments in AWS
• Robust knowledge of Terraform
• 5+ years of experience with GCP, experience with Microsoft Azure
• Hands-on experience implementing AWS services such as: EC2 Load Balancing, VPC, Route 53, Direct Connect, NAT Gateway, VPN, EC2 Networking, Lambda
• Working experience deploying container applications with Helm charts
• Experience managing database infrastructure: PostgreSQL (RDS/Aurora), Cassandra or compatible (AWS Keyspaces, Astra DB)

About the company

Nightfall is the AI-native, unified data loss prevention and insider risk management platform that protects sensitive data across SaaS apps, GenAI tools, email, endpoint devices, and more. Nightfall is backed by leading VC firms including Bain Capital Ventures, Venrock, WestBridge Capital, and Pear VC.