DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure & Platform at Harbor.ai DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure & Platform at Harbor.ai in Hoboken, New Jersey Posted in 1 day ago.

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full-time Company Description Harbor.ai is an InsurTech startup aiming to revolutionize the enterprise insurance market. Our technology simplifies the process for insurance brokers to identify optimal coverage for their clients continuously, and this is just the beginning. Our mission is to revolutionize underwriting for better, faster, and smarter processes. As we pursue this goal, we are implementing a data-driven business model that fundamentally reshapes how insurance products are sold. Established in 2018, Harbor.ai is venture-backed and based in New York. This position is 100% on-site at our New York City headquarters (148 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10013, SoHo office). About the

Role:

We're looking for a DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure & Platform to join our team and work alongside our existing DevOps engineer to own our infrastructure. This is a hands-on role

•you'll be architecting our AWS environment, managing our Kubernetes clusters, and building the CI/CD systems our engineering team depends on every day. We need someone who has done this work before, in production, and can point to real systems they've built and run. You'll make infrastructure decisions that directly affect how fast and how reliably we ship product.

Required:

4+ years of hands-on DevOps/infrastructure experience, with direct ownership of production systems Experience working in a startup or similarly fast-paced, resource-constrained environment (Must-have) Expert-level AWS production experience

•not just familiarity, but having built and run real production environments Kubernetes cluster architecture and administration in production Deep Terraform experience at scale

•writing, maintaining, and evolving IaC for live systems Experience designing and running CI/CD systems end-to-end Strong Python and Bash skills for infrastructure automation Cloud security architecture, networking design, and compliance experience Direct experience building a production environment from scratch

Tech Stack:

Cloud:

AWS Containers:

Docker, Kubernetes CI/CD:

Modern CI/CD platforms

IaC:

Terraform Preferred:

Microservices architecture at scale Advanced observability implementation Database operations experience Compliance implementation experience GitOps workflows

What You'll Do:

Own infrastructure strategy and architecture decisions Design and implement scalable, secure cloud environments Architect and optimize production Kubernetes clusters Establish DevOps best practices, standards, and processes Build and maintain CI/CD systems for fast, reliable deployments Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting across our infrastructure Drive infrastructure automation initiatives Own incident response and establish SLIs/SLOs Define security policies and compliance controls Optimize infrastructure costs and performance Create documentation and runbooks

What We're Looking For:

Someone who has actually done this work

•not adjacent to it, not managing people who did it, but hands-on, in production. You've built and run infrastructure in a startup or similarly lean environment where you owned the outcome.

You can talk specifics:

what you built, what broke, how you fixed it, what you'd do differently. You're looking for a role where your work has direct, visible impact

•not one system among many, but the systems this company runs on. You make sound technical decisions with incomplete information and are equally comfortable heads-down in Terraform or thinking through the next six months of infrastructure needs. Note to

All Applicants:

Harbor.ai is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations) in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to Careers@harborai.net. Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable; bonuses are not guaranteed. Harbor.ai is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. We may use your information to maintain the safety and security of Harbor.ai, its employees, and others as required or permitted by law. Additionally, Harbor.ai participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Harbor.ai is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at Careers@harborai.net.