Senior DevOps Engineer

11/24/2025

Design and maintain cloud infrastructure for production and development environments while building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for reliable deployments. Manage workflow orchestration systems and implement observability and monitoring tools to ensure system reliability and performance.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

11-50 employees

Language

English

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About The Company

Daylight Security is the leading provider of Managed Agentic Security Services, offering tailored MDR solutions that are delivered by Agentic AI and backed by elite human experts. Built for the realities of modern environments, Daylight delivers fast, precise, and context-aware threat detection, investigation, and response that scales with your needs. We work seamlessly with your team to ensure full end-to-end threat detection and resolution, giving you confidence that every alert is handled and no threat is overlooked.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help build and scale our cloud infrastructure. You'll work on the systems that power our cybersecurity platform, with a focus on reliability, automation, and cost efficiency.

If you’re excited by solving complex problems, enjoy working in a fast-paced startup, and want your work to have real impact, we’d love to meet you.

Responsibilities

Design and maintain cloud infrastructure for production and development environments
Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for reliable deployments
Manage workflow orchestration systems (Temporal, Airflow, or similar) for distributed workflows
Implement observability and monitoring using Datadog, Prometheus, or similar tools
Partner with backend and security engineers on scalability, performance, and compliance
Build infrastructure as code using Terraform and GitOps practices (ArgoCD, Flux)
Optimize cloud costs across compute, data streaming, and storage
Automate operational processes and implement security best practices
Participate in on-call rotation and incident response

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer on high-scale distributed systems in a Linux environment
Proven hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes - a must
Strong experience with AWS (EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora)
In-depth knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)
Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
Scripting/programming skills with Python, Bash, or Go
Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Temporal, Airflow, or similar)
Strong understanding of observability and monitoring stacks
The mindset and approach for automating away from manual efforts
Experience optimizing infrastructure costs
A strong sense of ownership and accountability

Nice to Have

Experience with data streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar)
Background in security tooling or compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO 27001)
Experience managing stateful distributed systems at scale
Database management and optimization experience (PostgreSQL, Aurora)

Key Skills

DevOpsCloud InfrastructureCI/CD PipelinesWorkflow OrchestrationObservabilityMonitoringInfrastructure as CodeTerraformDockerKubernetesAWSScriptingAutomationCost OptimizationIncident ResponseSecurity Best Practices