Senior DevOps Engineer

Akido

20h

About The Position

Akido Labs is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their small, high-impact infrastructure team. This role reports to engineering leadership and involves owning the systems that ensure the platform's reliability, security, and scalability. It's a hands-on position with significant ownership, where the engineer will be responsible for developing new strategies and playbooks. The ideal candidate thrives in lean teams with direct product impact.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in a DevOps, Platform, or SRE role
Deep expertise with AWS — networking, compute, storage, IAM, and managed services
Strong proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code
Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes in production
Solid understanding of CI/CD principles and tooling
Experience working on small, collaborative teams where you wear multiple hats

Nice To Haves

Experience with Azure or other cloud providers
Familiarity with observability tooling — logging, metrics, and tracing
Strong written communication skills for documentation and async collaboration

Responsibilities

Design, provision, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code best practices
Manage and evolve Kubernetes clusters, ensuring reliability, performance, and security across environments
Build and improve CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery and reduce deployment risk
Monitor system health, respond to incidents, and drive post-mortems to prevent recurrence
Collaborate closely with software engineers to support application deployment and platform needs
Harden infrastructure security posture, including IAM policies, network segmentation, and secrets management
Contribute to capacity planning, cost optimization, and cloud architecture decisions
Support a multi-cloud environment, including limited work in Azure
Document infrastructure, runbooks, and operational procedures to support a growing team