Senior DevOps Engineer, US Production

Zafran.io•New York, NY

6d•Remote

About The Position

Zafran is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to own our US-only production environment end-to-end and lead our growing US DevOps presence. This is a hands-on role combining infrastructure ownership, deployment automation, and close collaboration with engineering on application-level investigations. You will be our first DevOps hire on the ground in the US, working alongside our Tel Aviv DevOps team while establishing the US site. The ideal candidate has a strong development background, thinks like an engineer, and is comfortable moving between Terraform, Kubernetes manifests, and application code to debug a production issue. About Zafran Our Mission: To stop the exploitations of vulnerabilities, everywhere. What makes us different: Zafran de-risks 90% of critical vulnerabilities overnight across your hybrid environment and uses your existing security tools to rapidly mitigate and remediate the 10% most likely to be exploited. Who’s behind us: Zafran is backed by Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, and a deep belief that cybersecurity should move as fast as attackers do. We’re one of the fastest-growing companies in the industry, scaling to meet demand from the world’s most advanced, security-obsessed organizations. We’re serious about our mission- so expect work that matters, teammates who challenge and inspire you, and plenty of fun along the way!

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