Senior Devops Engineer

Gong Gong · Enterprise · New York, NY · Engineering

Senior DevOps Engineer to scale U.S.-based DevOps function, focusing on security-related areas. Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS), CI/CD, monitoring, and developer experience with a strong emphasis on security best practices and compliance frameworks.

What you'd actually do

  1. Help designing, deployment, and continuous improvement of secured, scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS).
  2. Contribute to the design and implementation of best security practices and tooling for CI/CD, monitoring and developer experience.
  3. Automation & Streamlining: Help automate and streamline our operations and processes, enhancing efficiency and reducing manual intervention.
  4. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with all major stakeholders in the company, including R&D, Security, Product, and more, to ensure seamless integration of DevOps practices.
  5. Impactful Contribution: Play a major part in shaping the company's cloud strategy, focusing on innovation and long-term success with security considerations in mind.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Platform Engineering roles.
  • Proven track record of building and operating scalable cloud environments (AWS preferred).
  • Deep understanding of infrastructure-as-code and GitOps methodologies (Crossplane, Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
  • Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, CircleCI).
  • Extensive experience with running Kubernetes and container orchestration in production.
  • A solid understanding of computer networking fundamentals, REST architecture, and cloud security concepts.
  • Experience with AWS security services such as IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, and Security Hub.
  • Knowledge of security principles and compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO27001, etc.).
  • Familiarity with vulnerability scanning and management tools.
  • Experience implementing security automation in CI/CD pipelines.
  • Background in container security and Kubernetes security best practices.
  • Experience working in a Java-based environment.
  • Hands-on experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.).
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Experience working in fast-paced, high-growth SaaS or product environments.

Nice to have

  • One or more security-related certifications (CKA,CISSP, CEH, Security+, or similar).
  • Bonus: Experience working in a hybrid/global team across time zones.
  • Willing to travel internationally from time to time

What the JD emphasized

  • security-related parts of it
  • security-related areas
  • security services
  • security principles
  • security automation
  • security best practices
  • security considerations