Senior DevOps Engineer, US Production

Zafran Security

18h • Remote

About The Position

Zafran is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to take full ownership of their US-only production environment and spearhead the company's growing US DevOps presence. This is a hands-on role that involves infrastructure management, deployment automation, and close collaboration with the engineering team for application-level issue resolution. As the first US-based DevOps hire, you will work with the existing Tel Aviv DevOps team while establishing the US site. The ideal candidate possesses a strong development background, an engineering mindset, and the ability to navigate between Terraform, Kubernetes manifests, and application code to troubleshoot production issues. Zafran's mission is to stop the exploitation of vulnerabilities, everywhere, by de-risking critical vulnerabilities and mitigating the most exploitable ones using existing security tools. The company is backed by prominent investors and is experiencing rapid growth, serving advanced, security-focused organizations. The role promises impactful work, challenging and inspiring colleagues, and a fun work environment.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Own the prod-us-only environment end-to-end: infrastructure deployment, maintenance, scaling, and reliability
• Lead and grow the US-based DevOps as the site expands
• Design, implement, and manage scalable, highly available AWS infrastructure
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that let developers ship safely and quickly
• Partner with engineering on investigations into 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 (medical, dental, vision)
• a monthly stipend for phone and internet
• 401k
• flexible spending account
• a 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