Senior Devops Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer who can own, design, and scale the DevOps architecture for our complex, distributed, microservices-based product. You will be responsible for both hands-on implementation and strategic infrastructure decisions, ensuring our platform's reliability, scalability, and security.

The ideal candidate should have deep experience in cloud-native architecture, automation, CI/CD, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code.

About Aries

You will be working on our core products:

• Aries.com

  the first open-source brokerage for active traders.

• Finance.dev

  developer infrastructure for trading products.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Cloud

• Design, manage, and scale infrastructure across

  AWS

  using

  Terraform

  .
• Work extensively with AWS services such as

  Cognito, SNS, SQS, EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch

  , etc.
• Design secure and highly available systems using

  VPC

  ,

  subnets

  ,

  load balancers

  , and

  networking best practices

  .

Containerization & Orchestration

• Manage and optimize

  Docker

  -based microservices.
• Deploy, monitor, and scale workloads in

  Kubernetes

  (EKS preferred).
• Implement and maintain

  service mesh, ingress, and reverse proxies

  (Traefik, Nginx, etc.).
• Handle

  Pod Identity

  ,

  RBAC

  , and

  multi-environment deployments

  .

CI/CD & Automation

• Build and maintain

  end-to-end CI/CD pipelines

  using

  GitHub Actions

  ,

  Workflows

  , and

  ArgoCD

  .
• Automate environment provisioning, testing, and deployment for multiple services.
• Define and enforce

  GitOps principles

  and environment promotion strategies.

Monitoring, Reliability & Security

• Set up observability with tools like

  Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK stack

  , or

  Datadog

  .
• Define SLOs, SLIs, and alerting strategies for proactive monitoring.
• Ensure

  infrastructure and data security

  , implement

  IAM best practices

  ,

  secrets management

  , and

  compliance policies

  .
• Establish

  disaster recovery and backup strategies

  .

Databases & Messaging Systems

• Manage and optimize Databases like

  PostgreSQL

  ,

  Redis

  ,

  DragonflyDB

  , and caching layers.
• Handle

  Kafka

  clusters and messaging systems to support high-throughput event-driven architectures.

Team Leadership & Strategy

• Mentor junior Devops team members.
• Collaborate closely with backend, frontend, and system teams.
• Handle

  infrastructure cost optimization

  ,

  reliability improvements

  , and

  security hardening

  .
• Define DevOps best practices, documentation, and runbooks.

Required Skills & ExperienceCore Technical Expertise

• 48+ years

  of DevOps/SRE experience with complex distributed systems.Strong experience with:

• AWS Cloud Infrastructure

• Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code

• Kubernetes (EKS preferred)

• Docker

  ,

  GitHub Actions

  ,

  ArgoCD

• Kafka

  ,

  PostgreSQL

  ,

  Redis/DragonflyDB

• Traefik

  ,

  Pod Identity

  ,

  Cloudflare

• Deep understanding of

  microservices networking, observability, and scaling

  .
• Proficient in at least one

  scripting or backend language

  (Bash, Python, or Go preferred).

Soft Skills

• Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration abilities.
• Proven experience

  owning DevOps architecture

  in fast-paced startups or large-scale systems.
• Excellent problem-solving and incident response skills.
• Passion for

  automation, reliability, and continuous improvement

  .

• Nice to haves

• Interest in trading, fintech, or financial infrastructure.
• Experience with low-latency, high-throughput systems.
• Exposure to open-source contributions or impactful side projects.

Who you are

• You move with urgency, take initiative, and do what it takes to win.
• You know the difference between excellent and mediocre engineering.
• You're highly opinionated yet open to stronger logic and collaboration.
• You see elegant solutions in code and systems design.
• You value precision, clarity, and accountability.
• You thrive in startups and want to help entrepreneurs grow and thrive.

Benefits overview

• Competitive base salary depending on experience + equity package.
• Unlimited PTO with a guaranteed two-week minimum.
• Internet & equipment reimbursement.
• Hybrid company model, hiring everywhere.
• Latest 14 or 16 MacBook Pro.