What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Engineer, DevOps position at brightai?
BrightAI is a high-growth Physical-AI company transforming how businesses interact with the physical world through intelligent automation. We are building a cutting-edge AI platform that processes visual, spatial, and temporal data across billions of real-world events—from edge devices and mobile sensors to large-scale cloud systems.
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who wants to join us in a fast paced setting to build next generation clouds and applications that leverage all the latest technologies in AWS, Kafka, Cloud Native, Containers, Terraform, CI/CD, AI and ML. Our tech stack is a loosely coupled, event-based architecture, built on top of Kafka with many microservices and IoT devices, that processes tens of millions of events a day. As a member of the team you will play an integral role in shaping the architecture, processes and features needed to maintain and release a high scale cloud platform with teams.
Responsibilities
- Building the tools, processes and support for teams to be able to self-manage in an owner operator model
- Establishing and supporting infrastructure as code best practices and patterns for teams
- Managing and supporting engineering teams’ software releases
- Working with cloud engineers to define repeatable processes and patterns for supporting services in a production environment
- Staying on top of latest cloud trends and topics
- Prototyping unproven concepts to inform final implementations
- Automating everything possible. Leveraging CI/CD to automate repeatable tasks and quality checks.
- Managing multiple AWS accounts and providing unified operational support
- Building many common dashboards, monitoring and alerts used by the business
Skills and Expertise
- Passionate for continuous learning and understanding things in and around DevOps, site reliability, high availability and release engineering best practices
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 4 years of experience in software languages like TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, etc.
- Deep experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and services, including EKS, EC2, VPC, Route53, S3, RDS (Postgres), MSK, Lambda, ECS, DocumentDB
- In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, including experience with deploying, managing, and scaling clusters
- Experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Kustomize, Helm, CloudFormation, Ansible, etc
- Extensive networking experience
- Experience with Linux and shell scripting
- Experience with Datadog, SumoLogic, OpsGenie, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar for reporting and alerts
- Experience with high availability deployments across multiple regions and AZs
- Experience with setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipeline tooling
- Experience working within an Agile environment
- Experience with managing multiple AWS accounts
- Familiarity with leveraging reserved instances
- Experience with AWS Cost explorer and managing usage
Bonus
- Previous startup experience
- Experience with growing large teams and can describe the issues that arise with growth.
- Experience operating and monitoring large Kafka clusters
- Experience with cloud development using TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, etc.
