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DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer
Cou*** · New York, NY, United States
New York, NY, United StatesFull timeExp: 3-7 yrs150,000-175,000 USD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
Health and wellness program, on-site fitness center, generous leave policies, and health insurance programs
Location
New York, NY, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
This DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer owns the reliability, resilience, security, and observability of web and mobile properties, their deployment pipelines, and emerging AI and agentic services. The role defines service-level objectives, leads incident response and postmortems, maintains CI/CD and disaster recovery, and manages AWS infrastructure with Terraform across WordPress VIP, Pantheon, and custom applications.
Benefits
Health and wellness programOn-site fitness centerGenerous leave policiesHealth insurance
Qualifications
- 3–7 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform, or security engineering.
- Experience with AWS and Terraform.
- Experience with managed publishing platforms such as WordPress VIP, Pantheon, or Acquia.
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and multi-environment deployments.
- Familiarity with supply-chain security tooling.
- Hands-on experience with zero-trust principles, SSO/MFA, least-privilege IAM, short-lived credentials, and secrets management.
- Scripting experience with Bash and Python.
- Working familiarity with PHP and Node.js/TypeScript.
- Working knowledge of WAF/CDN services such as Cloudflare, CloudFront, or Fastly.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills; ability to collaborate across engineering, operations, IT, and vendors.
Responsibilities
- Define and track SLOs and error budgets for each property.
- Own on-call operations, incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems.
- Operate observability, logging, and alerting systems.
- Document and execute infrastructure backup and disaster recovery.
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines and troubleshoot deployment failures.
- Provision and manage AWS infrastructure with Terraform, policy checks, and drift detection.
- Automate testing and deployments.
- Manage role-based access, secrets, and key rotation.
- Maintain AWS security posture and edge/WAF configuration.
- Support engineers and coordinate with DevSecOps contractors, vendors, and technical contributors.
Skills
AWSBashCloudflareCloudFrontDatadogFastlyIAMNode.jsOktaPHPPythonSecrets ManagerTerraformTypeScript
Work schedule
At least four days onsite each weekTuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays are required onsite anchor days
Industry
NonprofitResearch and publishingForeign policy
Relocation
No