Senior DevOps Engineer (NYC)

Zafran Security

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About The Position

Zafran is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own its US-only production environment end-to-end and lead its growing US DevOps presence. This hands-on role combines infrastructure ownership, deployment automation, and collaboration with engineering on application-level investigations. The successful candidate will be Zafran’s first DevOps hire on the ground in the US, working alongside the Tel Aviv DevOps team while helping establish the US site.

The role is responsible for deploying, maintaining, scaling, and ensuring the reliability of the prod-us-only environment; designing and managing scalable, highly available AWS infrastructure; and building CI/CD pipelines that help developers ship safely and quickly. The engineer will investigate application errors with engineering, improve monitoring, logging, and alerting, lead production incident response, and coordinate with the Tel Aviv DevOps team on shared platform decisions and standards. The role also includes leading and growing the US-based DevOps function as the site expands.

Zafran’s mission is to stop the exploitation of vulnerabilities. Its Exposure Graph maps vulnerabilities across hybrid environments, traces exploitability through real attack paths, and helps neutralize or remediate vulnerabilities where necessary. Zafran is backed by Menlo Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Cyberstarts.

The position requires the employee to be located in the US, with a strong preference for the New York area. US remote work is considered, but the employee must be in the Eastern Time Zone. U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident status is required due to access restrictions for the U.S.-only environment.

Requirements

• Must be located in the US; US remote is considered, with Eastern Time Zone required. New York area is strongly preferred.
• U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident status is required due to access restrictions for a U.S.-only environment.
• Prior experience leading or mentoring a small team.
• At least 5 years of DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering experience.
• Strong development background in Go, Python, or a similar language, with comfort reading and contributing to application code.
• Deep AWS experience across compute, networking, IAM, and data services.
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and/or Terragrunt.
• CI/CD pipeline design experience with GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, or similar tools.
• Hands-on experience with Datadog or an equivalent tool.
• Experience with disaster recovery and high-availability architectures.
• Excellent full-stack troubleshooting skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working across distributed teams and time zones.
• Relevant certifications.

Responsibilities

• Own the prod-us-only environment end-to-end, including infrastructure deployment, maintenance, scaling, and reliability.
• Lead and grow the US-based DevOps function as the site expands.
• Design, implement, and manage scalable, highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that enable developers to ship safely and quickly.
• Partner with engineering to investigate application errors.
• Operate and improve monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure availability and performance.
• Lead production incident response.
• Coordinate with the Tel Aviv DevOps team on shared platform decisions and standards.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO.
• Health insurance plans, including medical, dental, and vision.
• Monthly phone and internet stipend.
• 401(k).
• Flexible spending account.
• Home office stipend when joining.
• Access to frontier AI models, including Claude.

What This Job Offers

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