Senior DevOps engineer.

What You Will Be Doing: •••••Work in a collaborative, engineering culture where teams work together to solve challenging technical problems. Manage and improve highly scalable, reliable systems supporting millions of devices and users across seven geographically distributed platform instances. Play a significant role in the reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency of Ayla's global cloud infrastructure. Collaborate with engineering leaders and peers across multiple countries to develop repeatable and scalable objectives. Work closely with the U.S. Vice President of DevOps to plan and execute short- and long-term infrastructure improvement initiatives, including architecture, budgeting, implementation, and cloud cost optimization. ••Identify opportunities for automation and other process enhancements Participate in a scheduled 24/7 on-call rotation supporting production systems.

Desired Skills and Experience: •8+ years of industry experience supporting Docker-based microservices, PaaS environments, and cloud technologies. ••5+ years of networking experience supporting high-availability applications on AWS and GCP. Experience with both platforms is preferred, including HTTP- and MQTT-based ingestion and messaging solutions. Proficiency in Linux with 5+ years of hands-on experience in system administration, user and machine administration, package management, and scripting using Python and Bash. ••5+ years of experience deploying and operating cloud applications, including AWS and GCP. Azure experience is a plus. 3+ years of experience managing high-availability Kafka clusters, with a strong understanding of Kafka internals, including brokers, producers, consumers, and partitions. ••3+ years of database administration experience with technologies such as MySQL, Cassandra, or other NoSQL databases. 3+ years of experience in log collection and analysis, performance monitoring/tuning, using tools such as Coralogix, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, New Relic, Datadog, or similar platforms. ••••3+ years of experience with infrastructure automation tools, particularly Terraform. Ansible experience is also valuable. Proficiency with modern CI/CD tools, automation practices, and deployment workflows. Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development and automation tools such as Claude (preferred), Cursor, Gemini, or similar technologies. Strong understanding of DevOps architecture and operations, including infrastructure strategy, capacity planning, budgeting, cost optimization, implementation, reliability, and scalability. Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams, functions, countries, and time zones. •Why Join Ayla? Ayla's platform connects millions of devices and supports global consumer brands, providing challenging engineering problems involving distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, networking, messaging, databases, observability, security, automation, and high availability. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will have influence over both day-to-day operations and the longer-term technical direction of the platform. You will work with an experienced international team while helping shape how Ayla makes its infrastructure more scalable, resilient, automated, and cost-efficient. If you are a driven DevOps engineer who enjoys solving complex infrastructure problems, improving systems through automation, and making a visible impact on a global technology platform, we would like to hear from you. Location This is a 100% remote position with occasional travel. Candidates should be located in the Eastern Time Zone of the United States or Canada, or in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to support effective collaboration with the broader Ayla team.