Senior DevOps Engineer

Sunbit • Jersey City, NJ

5d • $150,000 - $195,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Sunbit is looking for an experienced, independent Senior DevOps Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment. You will join our centralized DevOps team, serving as a pillar of reliability and innovation for the entire engineering organization. This is a 50/50 "Build vs. Run" role. Splitting your time between building modern automation and improving our developer experience and operational excellence, ensuring our production environments are rock-solid, secure, and highly available while managing the live environment from server infrastructure all the way to the application.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience managing high-scale production systems.
• Mastery of AWS: Deep knowledge of AWS services, security best practices, and account management.
• Orchestration & Containers: Expert-level experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and Docker.
• Automation-First Mindset: Proficiency in Terraform and at least one high-level language (Python, Go, or Bash).
• Database Ops: Solid understanding of the DevOps aspects of MySQL/RDS and MongoDB (scaling, backups, performance tuning).
• SRE Discipline: Strong experience with monitoring and logging stacks like Datadog, Grafana, or Prometheus.
• Team Player: Strong communication skills and a "can-do" attitude—you enjoy solving problems as part of a collaborative squad.

Nice To Haves

• Security Knowledge: Experience with FW, WAF, IPS/IDS, and SELinux.
• Data Infrastructure: Familiarity with Data tools like Kafka, Spark, Snowflake or Data Lakes.
• Multi-Cloud: Familiarity with hybrid or multi-cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement next-generation CI/CD automation flows to streamline the path from "Code" to "Production."
• Lead the evolution of our Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) to make our systems more modular and self-service for developers.
• Collaborate with backend teams to architect scalable microservices and optimize datastore performance (RDS, MongoDB).
• Embrace AI-powered development tools (Cursor, Claude Code) to automate toil and accelerate infrastructure delivery.
• Full ownership of our AWS accounts and multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
• Manage and fine-tune live production environments, ensuring 99.9% uptime for our mission-critical fintech services.
• Drive our Observability strategy (Datadog/Grafana) to proactively catch issues before they impact our customers.
• Participate in a weekly on-call rotation, serving as the first line of defense for platform reliability.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and stock options
• Unlimited PTO
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, EAP, FSA, & Parental Leave
• Newly added HSA and Pet Insurance
• 401K Plan with Matching
• Cell Phone Stipend
• Casual Dress
• Team based strategic planning + Team owned deliverables

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed