Senior Dev Ops Engineer

About Us

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. Our 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, we work with leading enterprise clients, financial institutions, and governments to ensure AI-generated media is not used for malicious purposes.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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

What You’ll Do in Your First 3 Months

• 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

Benefits

• 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

Pay

Compensation Range: $170K - $200K