Senior Devops Engineer

Forrester

Cambridge, MA, United States
Base: $125,000 - $205,000; bonus/equity: 10% bonus...
Aws-centric architectures
Kubernetes, karpenter, ray serve
Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code
The Senior DevOps Systems Engineer will design, secure, scale, and operate modern cloud-native platforms with a strong emphasis on agentic AI systems, Kubernetes, Karpenter, Ray Serve, Terraform, and AWS

Job Summary

  • The Senior DevOps Systems Engineer will design, secure, scale, and operate modern cloud-native platforms with a strong emphasis on agentic AI systems, Kubernetes, Karpenter, Ray Serve, Terraform, and AWS.
  • This role demands a hands-on technical leader who partners across engineering, SRE, security, product, data, and AI-focused teams to ensure system resiliency, observability, and strong security practices.
  • Responsibilities include designing, building, maintaining, and automating infrastructure, implementing security best practices, ensuring platform availability, and driving root cause analysis for complex production issues.

Matching Summary

The Senior DevOps Systems Engineer will design, secure, scale, and operate modern cloud-native platforms with a strong emphasis on agentic AI systems, Kubernetes, Karpenter, Ray Serve, Terraform, and AWS.

Salary

Base: $125,000 - $205,000; Bonus/Equity: 10% bonus target; Benefits: https://forresterbenefits.com/

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • AWS-centric architectures
  • Kubernetes, Karpenter, Ray Serve
  • Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code
  • agentic AI systems
  • observability stack
  • security best practices

Nice-to-have

  • curiosity, courage and customer obsession
  • collaborative environment
  • troubleshooting instinct
  • bold at work

Key Requirements

  • Eight-plus years relevant work experience
  • Deep experience with AWS
  • Experience supporting AI/ML or agentic AI systems
  • Extensive CI/CD experience
  • Strong Kubernetes proficiency
  • Expertise with Terraform
  • Strong troubleshooting capabilities
  • Familiarity with observability stacks
  • Solid understanding of security best practices
  • Ability to participate in on-call rotation

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