Senior DevOps Engineer
Company: CLERA
Location: New York, NY (Remote)
Salary: $160,000 - $200,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-08-05
About this role
### About the Role
This is a high-ownership, hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer position at a fast-growing, AI-native B2B SaaS company in the consumer intelligence space — think competitors to Meltwater, NielsenIQ, and Qualtrics. You'll own the cloud infrastructure that enterprise-scale customers rely on for critical data and decision-making. Working closely with backend and ML engineers, you'll be the person who makes GitOps, infrastructure as code, and true production reliability a reality for the entire engineering organization.
The team is small (under 50 people) and technically ambitious, with engineers from backgrounds including Microsoft, IBM, and other high-caliber technology organizations. You'll have a direct, outsized impact on how the platform is built and scaled.
### What You'll Do
- Architect and build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using IaC (Terraform/Terragrunt) on AWS
- Design and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines; convert manual processes into automated, repeatable workflows
- Own production reliability — set up observability stacks, define SLI/SLOs, and lead incident response
- Implement and champion GitOps workflows for all infrastructure deployments
- Build compliance-ready infrastructure (SOC 2, GDPR) with IAM best practices and secrets management
- Optimize cloud costs while maintaining performance and reliability at scale
- Create developer tooling and documentation that accelerates engineering workflows across the team
- Mentor team members on DevOps best practices and guide infrastructure strategy
### What We're Looking For
Required
- 5+ years in a senior DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering role with end-to-end infrastructure ownership
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes — EKS experience strongly preferred
- Broad experience across multiple infrastructure domains: networking, security, monitoring, IaC — not just CI/CD
- Proven track record building and managing AWS infrastructure at scale
- Experience designing and m...