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Role: Sr. DevOps Engineer

Location: Palo Alto, CA 94301 (Hybrid 2 days/week)

Duration: 3+ month C2H

About the Role

We are looking for experienced DevOps Engineers to support production operations for OpusClip. This is a hands-on role requiring immediate contribution with minimal onboarding. Candidates must be self-sufficient and comfortable working in a complex and fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

1. IaC, Secrets, IAM & Security

Own the security foundation: service account lifecycle, secrets management, encryption key management, workload identity, and compliance tooling. Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption and establish GitOps workflows for access control changes.

2. Networking, DNS & Edge Infrastructure

Own cloud networking, firewall rules, static IPs, NAT, DNS, and a fleet of proxy and bastion hosts. Manage load balancing, SSL certificates, CDN, and synthetic monitoring. Identify and eliminate unused network resources.

3. Databases, Storage & Messaging

Own relational databases, in-memory caches, object storage, and event streaming infrastructure. Ensure backup/restore procedures, capacity planning, and data layer reliability for mission-critical workloads.

4. Kubernetes, Compute, CI/CD & Observability

Own large-scale Kubernetes clusters, standalone compute fleets, CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, and the full observability stack (monitors, dashboards, SLOs). Drive cost optimization and monitoring hygiene.

What You'll Do

• Operate and improve production cloud infrastructure supporting a high-scale video platform

• Drive Infrastructure as Code - codify existing resources, establish GitOps workflows, implement policy-as-code

• Participate in on-call rotation on a regular cycle with the team

• Triage and resolve infrastructure incidents: capacity, OOM, network, database saturation, node failures, certificate expiry, CI/CD failures

• Optimize costs, identify unused resources, right-size compute, manage vendor spend

• Collaborate with engineering teams on shared concerns like API reliability and deploy pipelines

Required:

  • 3+ years managing production cloud infrastructure (major cloud provider - GCP, AWS, or Azure)
  • Strong experience with Kubernetes at scale (node pool management, autoscaling, troubleshooting)
  • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent)
  • Experience with observability platforms (Datadog, Grafana, or similar - monitors, dashboards, SLOs, APM)
  • Solid understanding of networking (VPCs, firewall rules, NAT, DNS, load balancing, TLS)
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and container registries
  • Comfort with on-call responsibilities and incident resp

Preferred:

  • Experience with managed relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar) at scale • Familiarity with workflow orchestration systems
  • Experience with in-memory data stores (Redis or similar) in production
  • Background in security and compliance (least-privilege IAM, secrets rotation, audit logging)
  • Experience with policy-as-code frameworks
  • Familiarity with cloud cost optimization tooling
  • Temporal workflow operations
  • AlloyDB or PostgreSQL experience
  • Python or Go scripting
  • Experience with worker/queue based async service architectures
  • Mandarin proficiency is a HUGE plus
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