Sr. DevOps Engineer

First Street•New York, NY

21h•Hybrid

About The Position

First Street is a company dedicated to connecting climate and financial risk, serving as the standard for Climate Risk Financial Modeling. For over a decade, they have translated climate risk into decision-useful financial outcomes for investors, businesses, communities, and property owners globally. Backed by world-class firms, First Street has raised millions to transform how the global economy perceives climate change. The company leverages transparent, peer-reviewed methodologies developed by leading climate scientists and economists to calculate past, present, and future climate risk for various asset classes. They use physics-based deterministic models to predict hazards like floods, wildfires, and hurricanes, along with associated damage and downtime. First Street's customers include institutional investors, banking enterprises, government bodies, and millions of everyday users through platforms like Zillow and Redfin. The company is hiring a Sr. DevOps Engineer to assume primary ownership of responsibilities previously shared across the engineering team. This role involves enhancing existing systems to achieve smoother deployments, stronger reliability, clearer observability, tighter identity/access controls, and a more repeatable infrastructure foundation.

Requirements

Strong hands-on DevOps/platform ownership experience, ideally having been the primary owner) in a prior role.
Deep comfort operating production public cloud systems: debugging, incident response, performance triage, and operational discipline.
Practical experience improving CI/CD and deployment reliability.
Fluency with cloud infrastructure (AWS strongly preferred) and containerized workloads (Kubernetes experience strongly preferred).
Security-minded approach, especially around identity and access management and SSO/SAML concepts.
Ability to work independently with minimal hand-holding, while collaborating effectively across engineering.

Nice To Haves

Designing/implementing IaC at scale (Terraform/Pulumi/CloudFormation—whatever you’ve used, we care about principles and outcomes).
Compliance experience: SOC 2 evidence/control implementation and/or ISO 27001 familiarity.
Cost optimization and operational metrics (FinOps, capacity planning).
Experience in finance-related environments or other regulated B2B contexts.

Responsibilities

Reducing deployment pain: make releases simpler, safer, and faster through better automation, consistent environments, and strong CI/CD practices.
Improving observability and on-call: strengthen monitoring, alert quality, and incident response so on-call is humane and effective
Formalizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC): drive repeatability and change control for infrastructure and platform configuration.
Cost controls: introduce practical FinOps hygiene (visibility, ownership, guardrails, right-sizing).
Compute environments: own and evolve our platform across AWS and on-prem compute environments (you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with our High Performance Compute team).
On-call quality: reduce noisy alerts, define SLOs/SLIs where useful, and strengthen incident response practices (runbooks, postmortems, follow-ups).
Operational workflows: Lead efforts to standardize operational workflows and reduce “institutional knowledge” dependencies across the team.

Benefits

Competitive salary commensurate with experience
Ownership interest in the company via Employee Stock Option Plan
Hybrid Schedule with in-office work days on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday
15 vacation days
8 statutory company holidays
5 days for winter break office closure
10 sick days
Healthcare monthly premium covered at 100% for employee or a significant contribution for family plans
Vision benefits with partial employee contribution
Dental benefits with partial employee contribution
12 weeks of paid parental leave
Access to One Medical
Access to Teledoc
Access to HealthAdvocate
Access to Kindbody
Access to Talkspace
Company 401k program
Commuter benefits
Life Insurance
Tech startup environment
Weekly team meals
Office stocked with coffee and snacks
Working on the world’s biggest issue with other passionate professionals