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

Benefits

  • Stock-options package
  • Health benefits include medical, dental and vision
  • 401K
  • Long-term disability
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Life insurance
  • Paid Leave Program
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