Senior Devops Engineer

Job Description About the Role We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer who can own, design, and scale the DevOps architecture for our complex, distributed, microservices-based product. You will be responsible for both hands-on implementation and strategic infrastructure decisions, ensuring our platform's reliability, scalability, and security. The ideal candidate should have deep experience in cloud-native architecture, automation, CI/CD, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code. About Aries You will be working on our core products: - Aries.com the first open-source brokerage for active traders. - Finance.dev developer infrastructure for trading products. Key Responsibilities Infrastructure & Cloud - Design, manage, and scale infrastructure across AWS using Terraform. - Work extensively with AWS services such as Cognito, SNS, SQS, EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc. - Design secure and highly available systems using VPC, subnets, load balancers, and networking best practices. Containerization & Orchestration - Manage and optimize Docker-based microservices. - Deploy, monitor, and scale workloads in Kubernetes (EKS preferred). - Implement and maintain service mesh, ingress, and reverse proxies (Traefik, Nginx, etc.). - Handle Pod Identity, RBAC, and multi-environment deployments. CI/CD & Automation - Build and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Workflows, and ArgoCD. - Automate environment provisioning, testing, and deployment for multiple services. - Define and enforce GitOps principles and environment promotion strategies. Monitoring, Reliability & Security - Set up observability with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK stack, or Datadog. - Define SLOs, SLIs, and alerting strategies for proactive monitoring. - Ensure infrastructure and data security, implement IAM best practices, secrets management, and compliance policies. - Establish disaster recovery and backup strategies. Databases & Messaging Systems - Manage and optimize Databases like PostgreSQL, Redis, DragonflyDB, and caching layers. - Handle Kafka clusters and messaging systems to support high-throughput event-driven architectures. Team Leadership & Strategy - Mentor junior Devops team members. - Collaborate closely with backend, frontend, and system teams. - Handle infrastructure cost optimization, reliability improvements, and security hardening. - Define DevOps best practices, documentation, and runbooks. Required Skills & ExperienceCore Technical Expertise - 48+ years of DevOps/SRE experience with complex distributed systems.Strong experience with: - AWS Cloud Infrastructure - Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code - Kubernetes (EKS preferred) - Docker, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD - Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis/DragonflyDB - Traefik, Pod Identity, Cloudflare - Deep understanding of microservices networking, observability, and scaling. - Proficient in at least one scripting or backend language (Bash, Python, or Go preferred). Soft Skills - Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration abilities. - Proven experience owning DevOps architecture in fast-paced startups or large-scale systems. - Excellent problem-solving and incident response skills. - Passion for automation, reliability, and continuous improvement. - Nice to haves - Interest in trading, fintech, or financial infrastructure. - Experience with low-latency, high-throughput systems. - Exposure to open-source contributions or impactful side projects. Who you are - You move with urgency, take initiative, and do what it takes to win. - You know the difference between excellent and mediocre engineering. - You're highly opinionated yet open to stronger logic and collaboration. - You see elegant solutions in code and systems design. - You value precision, clarity, and accountability. - You thrive in startups and want to help entrepreneurs grow and thrive. Benefits overview - Competitive base salary depending on experience + equity package. - Unlimited PTO with a guaranteed two-week minimum. - Internet & equipment reimbursement. - Hybrid company model, hiring everywhere. - Latest 14 or 16 MacBook Pro.