Senior Devops Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer who can own, design, and scale the DevOps architecture for our complex, distributed, microservices-based product. You will be responsible for both hands-on implementation and strategic infrastructure decisions, ensuring our platform's reliability, scalability, and security.

The ideal candidate should have deep experience in cloud-native architecture, automation, CI/CD, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code.

About Aries

You will be working on our core products:

• Aries.com the first open-source brokerage for active traders.
• Finance.dev developer infrastructure for trading products.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Cloud

• Design, manage, and scale infrastructure across AWS using Terraform.
• Work extensively with AWS services such as Cognito, SNS, SQS, EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc.
• Design secure and highly available systems using VPC, subnets, load balancers, and networking best practices.

Containerization & Orchestration

• Manage and optimize Docker-based microservices.
• Deploy, monitor, and scale workloads in Kubernetes (EKS preferred).
• Implement and maintain service mesh, ingress, and reverse proxies (Traefik, Nginx, etc.).
• Handle Pod Identity, RBAC, and multi-environment deployments.

CI/CD & Automation

• Build and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Workflows, and ArgoCD.
• Automate environment provisioning, testing, and deployment for multiple services.
• Define and enforce GitOps principles and environment promotion strategies.

Monitoring, Reliability & Security

• Set up observability with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK stack, or Datadog.
• Define SLOs, SLIs, and alerting strategies for proactive monitoring.
• Ensure infrastructure and data security, implement IAM best practices, secrets management, and compliance policies.
• Establish disaster recovery and backup strategies.

Databases & Messaging Systems

• Manage and optimize Databases like PostgreSQL, Redis, DragonflyDB, and caching layers.
• Handle Kafka clusters and messaging systems to support high-throughput event-driven architectures.

Team Leadership & Strategy

• Mentor junior Devops team members.
• Collaborate closely with backend, frontend, and system teams.
• Handle infrastructure cost optimization, reliability improvements, and security hardening.
• Define DevOps best practices, documentation, and runbooks.

Required Skills & ExperienceCore Technical Expertise

• 48+ years of DevOps/SRE experience with complex distributed systems.Strong experience with:
• AWS Cloud Infrastructure
• Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code
• Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
• Docker, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
• Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis/DragonflyDB
• Traefik, Pod Identity, Cloudflare
• Deep understanding of microservices networking, observability, and scaling.
• Proficient in at least one scripting or backend language (Bash, Python, or Go preferred).

Soft Skills

• Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration abilities.
• Proven experience owning DevOps architecture in fast-paced startups or large-scale systems.
• Excellent problem-solving and incident response skills.
• Passion for automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Nice to haves
• Interest in trading, fintech, or financial infrastructure.
• Experience with low-latency, high-throughput systems.
• Exposure to open-source contributions or impactful side projects.

Who you are

• You move with urgency, take initiative, and do what it takes to win.
• You know the difference between excellent and mediocre engineering.
• You're highly opinionated yet open to stronger logic and collaboration.
• You see elegant solutions in code and systems design.
• You value precision, clarity, and accountability.
• You thrive in startups and want to help entrepreneurs grow and thrive.

Benefits overview

• Competitive base salary depending on experience + equity package.
• Unlimited PTO with a guaranteed two-week minimum.
• Internet & equipment reimbursement.
• Hybrid company model, hiring everywhere.
• Latest 14 or 16 MacBook Pro.