Senior DevOps Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 18, 2026.
About the Role :
Most boards and executives are currently flying blind when it comes to cyber risk. At Safe, we've built an AI-driven engine that finally gives the C-Suite a clear, quantified, and real-time view of their security posture. We are a $170M Series C-funded category leader operating at the highest levels of global enterprise, serving 10% of the Fortune 500.
Job Overview :
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining secure and scalable infrastructure while driving automation initiatives to improve system observability, availability, reliability, and performance.
Core Responsibilities :
- CI/CD Pipeline Management : Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to facilitate efficient and reliable software delivery.
- DevOps Tooling : Envision, implement, and roll out cutting-edge DevOps tooling and automation to streamline development and deployment processes.
- Cloud Cost Optimization : Develop strategies and implement measures to optimize cloud costs while maintaining system performance and reliability.
- Incident Response : Practice sustainable incident response strategies and participate in peer reviews and postmortems to continuously improve system reliability.
- Infrastructure Management : Manage our multi-environment infrastructure deployed in AWS cloud, comprising Dockerized microservices in AWS ECS & various data stores and queueing technologies.
- Automation : Leverage modern solutions like Terraform & Ansible to reduce manual efforts and increase efficiency.
Qualifications :
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5+ years of proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar capacity.
- Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code tools using AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or an equivalent.
- Extensive experience with cloud computing concepts and utilizing major cloud service providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
- In-depth knowledge of Docker, with practical exposure to container networking, storage interfaces, orchestration, deployment, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Strong experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or New Relic.
- Functional knowledge of microservice architecture & hands-on experience with Kubernetes-based workload troubleshooting & best practices.
- Strong understanding of scripting languages like Bash, Python, etc.
- Hands-on experience in CI/CD with tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.
- Functional knowledge and understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases.
Perks & Ownership :
- Meaningful Equity : Every Safestar is a shareholder.
- Unlimited Leaves : We trust you to take the time you need to recharge.
- Comprehensive Benefits : Top-tier medical insurance and wellness benefits.
- Career Trajectory : Aggressive growth with clear advancement paths.
Skills
AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Python, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka