Senior Dev Ops Engineer

Who we are.

Reality Defender is an award-winning cybersecurity company helping enterprises and governments detect deepfakes and AI-generated media. Utilizing a patented multi-model approach, Reality Defender is robust against the bleeding edge of generative platforms producing video, audio, imagery, and text media. Reality Defender's API-first deepfake detection platform empowers teams and developers alike to identify fraud, disinformation campaigns, and harmful deepfakes in real time.

Backed by world class investors including DCVC, Illuminate Financial, Y Combinator, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, Accenture, Rackhouse, and Argon VC, Reality Defender works with leading enterprise clients, financial institutions, and governments in order to ensure AI-generated media is not used for malicious purposes.

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The Senior DevOps Engineer Role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be a key technical owner of our cloud infrastructure and deployment ecosystem. You will work across engineering to build highly reliable infrastructure, automate operational processes, strengthen our security posture, and make it easier for teams to ship quickly and safely. This is a hands-on role. We are looking for someone who is exceptionally strong in both AWS and Azure and can operate comfortably across complex cloud environments. You should be the person engineers turn to when something needs to be architected, automated, scaled, secured, or fixed. You will have significant autonomy and ownership, with the opportunity to shape our infrastructure and DevOps practices as the company scales.

Own and evolve our cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure

Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, highly available cloud architectures

Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and other automation tools

Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and release automation

Manage and optimize Kubernetes and containerized workloads

Establish strong observability across infrastructure and applications, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance metrics using DataDog

Build systems and processes that improve reliability, uptime, scalability, and disaster recovery

Partner with Engineering and Security to identify and remediate infrastructure and cloud security risks

Manage cloud networking, identity management, object storage, RDBMS, access controls, secrets management, DNS, load balancing, and related infrastructure

Automate repetitive operational work and eliminate manual processes wherever possible

Troubleshoot complex production issues and lead infrastructure-related incident response

Establish and improve infrastructure standards, documentation, and operational best practices

Help evaluate and implement new cloud technologies and tooling as our architecture evolves

Support the infrastructure requirements of high-scale AI/ML workloads

Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar for cloud infrastructure and operational excellence

Help define the long-term architecture and roadmap for our cloud and DevOps environment

Work with compliance resources for SOC2, ISO, and FedRAMP certifications

Who you are.

7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, or a closely related discipline

Expert-level experience with both AWS and Azure — this is a core requirement

Deep understanding of cloud architecture, networking, security, scalability, and reliability

Extensive hands-on experience with Terraform or comparable Infrastructure as Code tooling

Strong experience with Kubernetes and Docker/containerized environments

Deep experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines

Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills

Experience with cloud networking, including VPCs/VNets, routing, DNS, load balancers, firewalls, and VPNs

Strong understanding of IAM, secrets management, encryption, least-privilege access, and cloud security

Experience with monitoring and observability platforms and practices

Strong scripting/programming ability in languages such as Python, Bash, Go, or similar

Experience operating production systems where reliability and uptime matter

Excellent incident response and troubleshooting skills

Ability to work independently, make sound technical decisions, and take ownership from architecture through implementation and operations

Strong communication skills and the ability to partner effectively with software engineers, security teams, and technical leadership

Within 3 months, you’ll…

Develop a deep understanding of our AWS and Azure environments and identify the highest-priority infrastructure risks and opportunities

Establish strong relationships with Engineering and Security

Take ownership of critical infrastructure and operational processes

Identify and eliminate meaningful sources of manual work and operational friction

Improve reliability, observability, and deployment processes

Begin implementing a clear roadmap for scaling our infrastructure as the company grows

What we offer.

Reality Defender offers the following benefits to all our employees, regardless of location:

Healthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage available for dependents

Dental and Vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and their dependents

Short/Long-term disability and life insurance plans with 100% premium coverage for employees

FSA/HSA and 401k programs

Equity compensation

20 days of PTO per year

12 weeks of Parental Leave

Learning and Development budget

Monthly wellness benefits

Annual company-sponsored offsite

For employees working from Reality Defender’s HQ in NYC, we offer the following benefits:

Daily in-office lunch through UberEats

Commuter benefits

Remote Fridays

Happy Hours and other local events