Who we are.
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. Reality Defender's 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, Reality Defender works with leading enterprise clients, financial institutions, and governments in order to ensure AI-generated media is not used for malicious purposes.
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The Senior DevOps Engineer Role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be a key technical owner of our cloud infrastructure and deployment ecosystem. You will work across engineering to build highly reliable infrastructure, automate operational processes, strengthen our security posture, and make it easier for teams to ship quickly and safely. This is a hands-on role. We are looking for someone who is exceptionally strong in both AWS and Azure and can operate comfortably across complex cloud environments. You should be the person engineers turn to when something needs to be architected, automated, scaled, secured, or fixed. You will have significant autonomy and ownership, with the opportunity to shape our infrastructure and DevOps practices as the company scales.
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
Who you are.
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
Within 3 months, you’ll…
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
What we offer.
Reality Defender offers the following benefits to all our employees, regardless of location:
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 ’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
Compensation Range: $170K - $200K
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