Staff DevOps Engineer

**About the Company**: Ambient combines a decade of operational experience with design and engineering prowess to improve apartment living and management in the most impactful, cost-effective way possible. The name "Ambient" embodies our vision to create a category-defining platform that seamlessly integrates smart technology into the built environment and transforms the way people live, visit, and work in multifamily communities. Our focus is on increasing the value of multifamily properties by making them more efficient to operate and more comfortable to live in. **About the Role**: We are looking for a seasoned **Staff DevOps Engineer** to lead the design, automation, and operation of our cloud infrastructure. This is a senior-level role responsible for setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and implementing best-in-class DevOps practices across the organization. You will be instrumental in driving infrastructure scalability, availability, security, and observability as we expand our cloud-native platforms. **Key Responsibilities**: - Architect and maintain highly available, secure, and scalable infrastructure on AWS using Terraform and Ansible. - Lead Kubernetes (EKS) cluster design, management, and optimization. - Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to support development and deployment lifecycles. - Manage and monitor RDS/Aurora instances, including performance tuning and backup strategies. - Implement and fine-tune system observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail. - Own Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) for platform resiliency - Define and enforce infrastructure-as-code best practices and DevSecOps standards. - Act as a technical mentor and guide to junior and mid-level engineers. - Lead cost optimization efforts across Cloud platforms - Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure infrastructure aligns with industry frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, NIST, ISO 27001). - Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and operational improvements. Contribute to documentation, knowledge sharing, and cross-functional engineering initiatives. **Required Qualifications**: - 15-20 years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or site reliability roles. Deep expertise in AWS services including VPC, IAM, RDS, EC2, KMS,SNS, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch. - Hands-on experience with EKS and Kubernetes workload orchestration. - Proficient in Terraform, Ansible, and scripting (Bash, Python, or similar). - Strong understanding of networking, security groups, firewalls, and VPNs. - Familiarity with designing scalable CI/CD pipelines using modern tooling (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc.). - Strong experience with observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK stack, etc.. - Strong knowledge of security and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, NIST, CIS benchmarks). - Familiar with AWS IoT or device management platform - AWS and Kubernetes certifications preferred (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, CKA/CKAD). - Some experience in **AI/MLOps** especially in the field of Observability and/or Cybersecurity **Preferred Soft Skills**: - Proven mentorship and leadership experience in cross-functional DevOps teams. - Ability to collaborate with developers, security, and product stakeholders. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. - High degree of ownership and accountability in fast-paced environments. **_ Ambient Property Technologies Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability or genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin._** **_ A note to recruitment agencies: Please don't reach out to Ambient employees or leaders about our roles - we've got recruiting covered. We don't accept unsolicited agency resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Thank you for your understanding._** ambient #no-promote