Ubiety Technologies, Inc. is dedicated to developing innovative device detection and RF signaling products that improve the safety and security of homes, businesses, and communities. We offer a fast-paced, highly collaborative startup environment where you will invent and develop transformative products to improve the lives of our customers. You will work alongside extremely talented engineers and creative designers from inception through delivery of a revolutionary product.

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about creating elegant, robust, and scalable applications. This opportunity requires leading the technical design of the microservices infrastructure and streaming platforms that power our latest home awareness and security product, HomeAware.

The ideal candidate is motivated by building infrastructure and automation that solves complex problems, stays current with the latest technologies as they relate to cloud engineering and infrastructure, and is passionate about building quality, robust systems and achieving operational excellence. An ideal candidate has strong leadership and communication skills with a commitment to raising the engineering bar of the team through mentorship of junior engineers. If you are committed to teamwork, learning, and hustle, you will thrive in this role.

Our DevOps team owns mission-critical aspects of a rapidly growing product. You will have an incredible amount of impact on the current state and future direction of our cloud infrastructure, with visibility throughout the organization and a significant opportunity to take ownership and lead other team members. Our team moves fast and is highly autonomous. If you can dream it, you will have an opportunity to build it.

What We Can Offer You

• A small, tightly-knit team that cares about each other, and cares about leveling everyone up together!
• A high level of autonomy, and opportunity to take as much of a leadership role as you are interested in
• A highly collaborative environment with an extreme level of transparency and visibility at all levels of the company
• A true meritocracy, we care about deliverables. We’ve got too much to do!
• Equity ownership in a fast-growing company
• Subsidized healthcare coverage for all employees
• Flexible schedule
• Unlimited PTO policy - Work hard, deliver on your goals, and then take the time to play hard, disconnect, and recharge

What You'll Be Doing 

• Create deployment strategies and keep critical infrastructure up and running
• Perform infrastructure migrations including database migrations, infrastructure/account cut-overs, DNS/networking configuration changes
• Responsible for designing and implementing a load testing system that tests the company's entire infrastructure to validate large numbers of simultaneous users
• Responsible for designing and implementing auto-scaling policies across multiple ecosystems within our infrastructure to match demand
• Responsible for creating financial forecasts for infrastructure costs
• Responsible for identifying highest-cost services and suggesting and implementing optimization strategies to minimize cost while maintaining performance
• Substantially helping with the design of secrets management and application of cybersecurity best practices across our infrastructure
• Implement a comprehensive enterprise VPN solution to enable secure remote access for all employees with multi-factor authentication, endpoint security validation, and centralized management capabilities.
• Provide engineering mentorship for other team members and continually raise the bar for our engineering standards
• Contribute ideas for what we should be building next to support our product, business, and infrastructure scalability goals
• Manage communication with cloud resellers/wholesalers and track cloud spend and validate that what's being billed is what is actually used.

What You'll Need

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering, or related field and two (2) years of experience in the job offered, Cloud Architect, Backend Engineer, or related role.
• Must have a Permanent Employee Registration Card license
• Fluency in Bash, Python, Go, or similar scripting/programming languages for automation
• Strong understanding of data pipeline architecture, ETL processes, and real-time data processing infrastructure
• Strong understanding of microservices infrastructure, service mesh architecture, and API gateway configuration
• Strong understanding of database infrastructure, replication, backup strategies, and high availability configurations
• Knowledge of NoSQL database infrastructure, clustering, scaling strategies, and operational best practices
• Multi-cloud expertise across AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with demonstrated experience in CI/CD pipeline development, cloud infrastructure visualization/monitoring, and distributed messaging systems architecture.
• Experience developing cloud-native applications on cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
• Proficiency in version control systems (Git, GitLab, GitHub) and experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or similar configuration management tools.
• Familiarity with containerization and container orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes or Amazon ECS
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• English language proficiency

Preferred Requirements:

• Primary work location in Chicago, IL
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and practices
• Design and implement secure CI/CD pipelines with integrated security scanning, automated testing, and infrastructure as code practices
• Ability to engineer solutions from high-level business requirements with a high level of autonomy
• Experience leading and mentoring other DevOps Engineers and SRE
• Experience implementing best practices for infrastructure and automation projects in a team environment (code reviews, infrastructure testing, monitoring standards, etc.)
• Familiarity with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code
• Experience with cost-optimizing cloud infrastructure and resource management
• Experience with observability tools such as Sentry, Cloud Watch, OpenTelemetry, or similar
• Candidates must possess work authorization for their intended country of employment.