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Our work spans 30+ media brands and 50+ newsletters, supported by a global team across the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia, and the Philippines.\nWe're a remote-first company that values curiosity, collaboration, and growth. We invest in our people, embrace AI and new technologies to improve how we work, and create opportunities for team members to build meaningful careers. Many of our leaders have grown from within, including our CEO, who started here as an intern.\nWe believe great work happens when people feel connected. Through company all-hands, team events, Slack communities, learning sessions, and in-person gatherings, we create intentional opportunities for our global team to collaborate, build relationships, and celebrate successes together.\nAll positions are open to remote work unless otherwise specified in the requirements below. \nThe opportunity\nWe're seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who views infrastructure as a product and operational excellence as an engineering discipline. You'll help own and continuously evolve the cloud platforms, deployment systems, observability, automation, and infrastructure that enable TechnologyAdvice engineers to deliver reliable software quickly and safely.\nAs an individual contributor on our distributed team, you'll independently identify opportunities to improve reliability, scalability, security, cost efficiency, developer experience, and operational effectiveness. You'll own initiatives from problem discovery and architecture through implementation, rollout, measurement, documentation, and ongoing improvement.\nThis is not a role focused solely on responding to tickets or keeping existing infrastructure running. We expect our Senior DevOps Engineers to understand where operational friction exists, identify recurring problems that should be engineered away, challenge unnecessary complexity, and proactively improve how TechnologyAdvice builds and operates software.\nAI-assisted engineering is an expected part of how we work. You'll use modern AI tools to accelerate infrastructure development, troubleshooting, automation, documentation, incident investigation, and operational analysis while applying the systems judgment necessary to validate solutions before they affect production.\nSuccess in this role isn't measured by the number of infrastructure tickets completed or alerts resolved. It's measured by improvements in system reliability, engineering velocity, operational efficiency, security, cost effectiveness, and your ability to independently identify and deliver high-value platform improvements.\nThe best candidates are naturally curious, highly autonomous, calm during incidents, and dissatisfied with solving the same operational problem twice. They enjoy understanding complex systems, eliminating repetitive work, and creating platforms that allow other engineers to move faster with confidence.\nEmployment Level: Pro 4 - Senior\nEmployment Type: Contract\nLocation: India (Remote)\nWorking hours: 1:30 PM to 10:30 PM IST\nWhat you'll do\nOwn and continuously improve the cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities that support TechnologyAdvice's applications, data systems, and engineering teams.\nIndependently identify opportunities to improve system reliability, scalability, security, performance, cost efficiency, developer experience, and operational effectiveness.\nDesign, build, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using modern infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native engineering practices.\nEngineer away repetitive operational work by building automation, self-service capabilities, reusable infrastructure patterns, and platform tooling.\nImprove Kubernetes and container-based infrastructure to make application deployment, scaling, recovery, and operations increasingly standardized and reliable.\nOwn and evolve CI/CD and GitOps workflows that allow engineers to ship changes quickly, consistently, and safely.\nPartner directly with Software Engineers, Product Engineers, Analytics Engineers, and other Technology teams to understand operational friction and build platform solutions that increase engineering leverage.\nImprove observability across applications and infrastructure through effective monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and actionable service health indicators.\nLead technical investigation during complex production incidents, drive issues through resolution, and ensure meaningful incidents result in systemic improvements rather than temporary fixes.\nContinuously identify opportunities to improve resilience, disaster recovery, backup strategies, security controls, access management, and infrastructure risk.\nEvaluate cloud infrastructure and architecture for cost efficiency and proactively identify opportunities to reduce unnecessary spend without compromising reliability or engineering effectiveness.\nApply AI-assisted engineering practices to accelerate infrastructure development, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, automation, documentation, and operational workflows while maintaining rigorous standards for production safety.\nContribute to architectural decisions and long-term platform strategy, balancing immediate business needs with reliability, security, scalability, simplicity, and maintainability.\nDefine, document, and champion engineering standards, operational practices, reusable patterns, and platform capabilities that improve how TechnologyAdvice Engineering operates.\nMentor other engineers and help raise the organization's standards for infrastructure ownership, automation, reliability, and operational excellence.\nWho you are\nOwnership & Engineering Impact\nDemonstrated ability to independently identify infrastructure and operational problems, determine their root causes, design solutions, and drive improvements through implementation and measurable results.\nProven track record of owning business-critical production infrastructure and complex platform initiatives with minimal oversight.\nStrong bias toward eliminating recurring operational work through automation, platform improvements, and systemic fixes rather than repeated manual intervention.\nStrong judgment in balancing reliability, security, engineering velocity, cost, complexity, and business needs when making infrastructure decisions.\nDemonstrated ability to improve the effectiveness of other engineers through better platforms, tooling, automation, documentation, and self-service capabilities.\nAbility to operate effectively during production incidents while maintaining clear communication, disciplined investigation, and ownership through resolution and follow-up.\nAI-Native DevOps Engineering\nDemonstrated ability to effectively leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to improve infrastructure development, troubleshooting, automation, documentation, incident analysis, and engineering productivity.\nStrong systems and architectural judgment to critically evaluate AI-generated infrastructure, scripts, configurations, troubleshooting recommendations, and operational changes before applying them to production environments.\nAbility to use AI to accelerate investigation and implementation without outsourcing responsibility for security, reliability, correctness, or production outcomes.\nCuriosity about emerging AI capabilities and how they can improve infrastructure operations, observability, incident response, developer experience, and engineering leverage.\nDevOps & Platform Engineering Excellence\nDeep experience designing, operating, troubleshooting, and improving highly available production systems in cloud environments.\nStrong experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and modern cloud-native infrastructure.\nStrong experience designing and managing infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar technologies.\nStrong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, automated deployment practices, and modern software delivery workflows.\nDemonstrated experience improving production observability through monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and incident-management practices.\nStrong understanding of reliability engineering, including failure modes, resilience, capacity, recovery, and operational risk.\nExperience implementing secure infrastructure patterns, access controls, secrets management, system hardening, and other cloud security practices.\nStrong Linux and systems troubleshooting skills with the ability to diagnose complex problems across applications, containers, networks, infrastructure, and cloud services.\nTechnical Expertise\nStrong experience operating production workloads in AWS or a comparable cloud platform.\nStrong experience with 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We automate recurring tasks, build reusable capabilities, and continuously reduce the amount of manual intervention required to operate our systems.\nWe own reliability - Reliability isn't someone else's responsibility, and incident resolution isn't complete when the alert stops. We understand root causes, improve the system, and reduce the likelihood and impact of future failures.\nWe build platforms, not bottlenecks - DevOps should make engineers more capable, not create another queue they have to wait in. We invest in self-service capabilities, reusable patterns, automation, and guardrails that allow teams to move quickly and safely.\nWe embrace AI - We expect thoughtful use of AI-powered tools to accelerate infrastructure development, troubleshooting, automation, documentation, incident analysis, and operational work while maintaining rigorous standards for security, reliability, and production safety.\nWe automate with judgment - Automation isn't valuable simply because something can be automated. We prioritize the problems where automation creates meaningful improvements in reliability, engineering velocity, cost, or operational efficiency.\nWe optimize for outcomes - We measure success by healthier systems and more effective engineering teams-not infrastructure tickets completed. 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