Senior DevOps Engineer

About the Company

Avantos is building the AI-native operating system for financial services — transforming fragmented data into a single, intelligent system that powers workflows, automation, and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for rapid, safe deployments
• Own observability strategy using Datadog and other tooling
• Architect and manage containerized workloads on ECS Fargate
• Establish and enforce security best practices for financial services compliance
• Design disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies
• Optimize system performance, cost efficiency, and resource utilization
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve reliability and establish SLOs/SLIs
• Participate in incident response and conduct post-mortems
• Mentor engineers on DevOps practices and cloud architecture

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering
• Expert-level proficiency with AWS (ECS Fargate, ALB, Cognito, S3, SQS)
• Deep hands-on experience with Terraform
• Strong scripting skills in Python and/or Bash
• Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar)
• Solid understanding of Docker and orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS)
• Experience with observability tools like Datadog or CloudWatch
• Deep knowledge of networking and security best practices
• Strong troubleshooting skills for complex distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Startup or early-stage experience
• Experience with PostgreSQL performance tuning and RDS management