AHEAD · 1 month ago
Senior Cloud/DevSecOps Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$170K/yr - $200K/yrAHEAD is seeking a Senior Cloud/DevSecOps Engineer who will own the automation, reliability, security, and compliance of a next-generation event-driven platform. This role involves designing and delivering CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure while collaborating closely with engineering, data/AI, and product teams.
Cloud ComputingInformation TechnologySoftwareStaffing AgencyVirtualization
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and automate multi-cloud infrastructure provisioning and deployments using Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, and serverless cloud functions
Architect and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines (Makefile, PyTest, Dockerfiles, Spies/Mocks) supporting modern agentic microservices and asynchronous event-driven workflows
Integrate and operationalize LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, and Pinecone-powered agent orchestration flows, building secure, monitorable event brokers (Kafka, AWS EventBridge, Redis Streams) and orchestrated job queues (Celery, AWS Batch)
Champion security best practices: automate secrets/token/certificate management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager), enforce fine-grained RBAC and token-based authentication (OAuth2), oversee Private Link and cross-cloud access controls
Monitor, manage, and remediate cloud and on-prem security incidents, participate in on-call rotations, and support production outage resolution and root cause analysis
Implement comprehensive observability: distributed tracing, logging, metrics, alerting (Prometheus, ELK, OpenTelemetry, DataDog), dashboard visualization, and actionable production feedback loops
Collaborate with architects, engineers, and QA to define, document, and maintain event schema contracts, compliance policies, backup/recovery, and SLO/SLA targets
Contribute to security audits, compliance reporting, incident and postmortem documentation, and continuous process improvement reviews
Lead or participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, process retrospectives, and cross-team knowledge sharing and onboarding
Qualification
Required
Demonstrated experience in event-driven cloud infrastructure (AWS EKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, serverless Lambda/Batch, cross-cloud integration)
Proficiency in building/optimizing CI/CD pipelines for fast, reliable agentic deployments (Makefile, PyTest, Dockerfiles)
Practical experience implementing security in agent/LLM and microservices environments: Vault, Secrets Manager, token/cert rotation, RBAC, network controls
Experience deploying, scaling, and monitoring event brokers (Kafka/EventBridge/Redis Streams) and background worker orchestration platforms (Celery, AWS Batch)
Deep knowledge of security, compliance, observability, incident response, and SRE best practices
Excellent communication skills for cross-function collaboration, agile ceremonies, incident postmortems, documentation, and knowledge transfer
Preferred
Familiarity with LangChain/LangGraph agentic patterns, vector DBs (Pinecone), and event-driven ML/data integrations is highly desirable
Company
AHEAD
AHEAD is a solutions-based company that helps clients move to an optimized IT service delivery model.
Founded in 2007
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$97.72M2024-05-06Series Unknown· $5.7M
2024-02-15Series Unknown· $43.6M
2023-11-02Series Unknown· $5.77M
Leadership Team
Daniel Adamany
Founder and CEO
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Stephen Ayoub
Co-Founder and President
Recent News
2025-11-19
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