Position overview

This position reports to the Director of Engineering and is responsible for designing, building, and operating reliable, secure, and scalable AWS infrastructure that supports our production systems and internal engineering workflows.

In this role, you will be joining a collaborative, highly technical engineering team focused on cloud infrastructure, automation, and operational excellence. You will be responsible for enabling teams to ship software safely and efficiently through well designed Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platform tooling. Day to day activities range from building and maintaining Terraform and Terragrunt modules, improving deployment pipelines, supporting production systems, and partnering with engineers to solve infrastructure and reliability challenges.

We are seeking a candidate with 5+  years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering roles, with a strong focus on AWS based environments.

This is a fully remote role with opportunities to connect with colleagues at our New York office. Occasional travel to NYC a few times per year may be required.

For candidates based in the UK or Canada, compensation will be benchmarked locally and converted from USD, taking into account market data, experience, and cost-of-labor norms.  

What you'll learn

An important part of our culture is continuous learning and the open sharing of ideas. We offer:

• Access to a broad network of investors and advisors who can help you and your team succeed
• Mentorship from executives with decades of experience in adtech and media
• Regular internal knowledge-sharing sessions
• An education budget to support ongoing professional growth and development

In this role you'll learn:

• Design and operate production grade AWS infrastructure at scale using Terraform and Terragrunt
• Build and evolve Infrastructure as Code standards across multiple environments and accounts
• Develop practical automation skills using Python to improve reliability, efficiency, and developer workflows
• Gain hands on experience with monitoring, incident response, and operational best practices for high availability systems
• How to balance reliability, performance, security, and cost in real world cloud environments

Core responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt
• Own Infrastructure as Code patterns, module design, and environment consistency
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments. Experience with GitHub Actions is a plus.
• Support production systems with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and security
• Monitor systems, troubleshoot incidents, and drive root cause analysis
• Improve observability through logging, metrics, and alerting
• Partner with engineering teams to enable scalable and repeatable deployments
• Identify and implement cost optimization opportunities across AWS services
• Enforce best practices around IAM, networking, and security controls

What you'll bring

• Strong experience working in AWS in a production environment
• Hands on experience with Terraform and Terragrunt
• Solid understanding of core AWS services such as EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch
• Experience with security best practices including IAM policies, least privilege access, and secrets management
• Experience managing multiple environments such as dev, staging, and production
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar
• Comfortable working in Linux based environments
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills

What will set you apart

• Experience with Python for automation, tooling, or scripting.
• Experience with Redshift.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana
• Exposure to cost management, budgeting, and cloud optimization strategies

Benefits

Health & Wellness

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (coverage varies by country)
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Employee Development & Wellness Stipend 
• Holiday / festive break
• Volunteer time off

Financial & Compensation

• Competitive salary
• Performance-based quarterly bonus
• Stock options
• US: 401(k) retirement plan
• UK: Group pension plan

Workplace & Equipment

• Remote-first environment
• New York office access
• London office for UK
• Access to available WeWork spaces 

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement

Adelaide is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where all employees can thrive. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

Our commitment to equal opportunity employment extends beyond basic compliance to encompass the active cultivation of a workplace that values different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences.