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.

Overview

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to work with our engineering team on a contract basis. We look for strategic thinkers and creative problem solvers with a bias for execution.

Before applying, please note that is a remote contract position that can only be held in either Brazil or Argentina.

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Design, build, and maintain infrastructure automation using Terraform and Ansible.
• Platform Operations: Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and resilient platforms running on AWS and GCP infrastructure 
• CI/CD & Automation: Implement robust CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, and ensure high system availability.
• Security & Compliance: Familiarity with best security practices, integrate EDR/MDR solutions, and ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Observability & Troubleshooting: Set up logging, monitoring, and alerting using modern tools for proactive issue detection and resolution.
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Apply industry standard SRE principles to improve reliability, scalability, and performance.
• AI/MLOps (Preferred): Work closely with data teams to build scalable MLOps pipelines for AI/ML workloads.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10-15 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Strong expertise in AWS services (EKS, RDS PostgreSQL, Aurora, Lambda, IAM, IoT, VPC, CloudWatch).
• Hands-on experience with Terraform & Ansible for infrastructure automation.
• Proficiency in Python/Go/API tools for scripting, automation, and cloud operations.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS) for container orchestration and workload management.
• Operational experience with Git, GitHub Actions, SAST/DAST tools
• Experience in performance tuning and query optimization for Amazon RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, including indexing strategies, and analyzing execution plans.
• Skilled in setting up logging, monitoring (using CloudWatch, Performance Insights), and auditing for security and compliance using tools like AWS CloudTrail and pgAudit.
• Strong troubleshooting skills with production incidents, performance tuning, and security incidents 
• Implementation experience with monitoring tools like Datadog, SumoLogic, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, or Cloudwatch and providing visibility into application health and performance using logs, traces and metrics
• Exposure to EDR/MDR security solutions and compliance frameworks.
• (Preferred) Some experience in AI/MLOps especially in the field of Observability and/or Cybersecurity 

Preferred Certifications (Optional)

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate