The Role
Own and evolve the platform: build secure, scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform, design GitHub CI/CD pipelines, improve developer experience, enforce security-by-default, and establish observability, reliability and incident readiness practices alongside product teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
Zalion is on a mission to eliminate repetitive procurement work through agentic AI. We’re building autonomous agents that operate deep within enterprise procurement — navigating messy data, legacy systems, and complex workflows to deliver real impact.
Join us early and help define how enterprise AI is done right.
Tasks
You will:
* Own our platform foundations end-to-end — from AWS architecture and IaC to CI/CD, observability, and incident readiness.
* Build and evolve secure, scalable AWS infrastructure (networking, compute, storage, IAM) optimized for reliability and cost.
* Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines on GitHub that are fast, repeatable, and developer-friendly (clear feedback loops, safe deploys, strong defaults).
* Define and operate infrastructure using Terraform — with clean modules, sensible standards, and automated validation.
* Improve developer experience through golden paths: templates, self-service environments, paved roads for deployments, and internal tooling that removes friction.
* Drive availability, scalability, and resilience: deployment strategies, rollbacks, capacity planning, DR thinking, and performance tuning.
* Implement pragmatic security-by-default: least privilege IAM, secrets management, secure supply chain, and guardrails that enable speed without compromising safety.
* Establish and refine observability and reliability practices (SLOs/SLIs, monitoring, alerting, postmortems, runbooks) that scale with the team.
* Partner closely with product engineering to reduce operational load and keep delivery velocity high as Zalion grows.
Requirements
* Strong experience as a Platform / DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer in product teams shipping to production.
* Deep practical knowledge of AWS: networking, IAM, security controls, and designing for failure.
* Hands-on expertise with Terraform: modules, state strategy, DRY patterns, environment separation, and automated reviews.
* Solid CI/CD engineering experience with GitHub: pipeline design, artifact/versioning, deployment safety, and fast feedback loops.
* A strong mindset for reliability and operability: you think in failure modes, automation, and measurable outcomes (SLOs).
* Security awareness and discipline: you build guardrails that make the secure path the easy path.
* A builder mindset: you ship improvements, measure impact (lead time, deploy frequency, MTTR), and iterate.
* Comfort with ambiguity and ownership: you proactively identify platform bottlenecks and fix them without waiting for perfect specs.
* 4+ years experience in relevant roles (startup/scale-up experience is a plus).
Benefits
* Build the platform behind agentic AI systems that run in real enterprise environments
* Massive autonomy, zero bureaucracy
* Immediate impact — your work accelerates every engineer and every release
* Modern stack, no legacy constraints
* Competitive salary + meaningful equity
* High-end equipment
🛠️ Tech Stack You’ll Work With
* AWS (core services; compute, networking, IAM, logging/monitoring, managed data services)
* Terraform (modules, workspaces, validation, state management)
* GitHub (Actions, CI/CD workflows, checks, release automation)
* Containers orchestration (e.g., ECS/Fargate and/or Kubernetes depending on evolution)
* Observability tooling (metrics, logs, tracing; e.g., Grafana/Prometheus/OpenTelemetry and friends)
* Security tooling (SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, secrets scanning, policy as code
Join us early and help define how enterprise AI is done right.
Tasks
You will:
* Own our platform foundations end-to-end — from AWS architecture and IaC to CI/CD, observability, and incident readiness.
* Build and evolve secure, scalable AWS infrastructure (networking, compute, storage, IAM) optimized for reliability and cost.
* Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines on GitHub that are fast, repeatable, and developer-friendly (clear feedback loops, safe deploys, strong defaults).
* Define and operate infrastructure using Terraform — with clean modules, sensible standards, and automated validation.
* Improve developer experience through golden paths: templates, self-service environments, paved roads for deployments, and internal tooling that removes friction.
* Drive availability, scalability, and resilience: deployment strategies, rollbacks, capacity planning, DR thinking, and performance tuning.
* Implement pragmatic security-by-default: least privilege IAM, secrets management, secure supply chain, and guardrails that enable speed without compromising safety.
* Establish and refine observability and reliability practices (SLOs/SLIs, monitoring, alerting, postmortems, runbooks) that scale with the team.
* Partner closely with product engineering to reduce operational load and keep delivery velocity high as Zalion grows.
Requirements
* Strong experience as a Platform / DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer in product teams shipping to production.
* Deep practical knowledge of AWS: networking, IAM, security controls, and designing for failure.
* Hands-on expertise with Terraform: modules, state strategy, DRY patterns, environment separation, and automated reviews.
* Solid CI/CD engineering experience with GitHub: pipeline design, artifact/versioning, deployment safety, and fast feedback loops.
* A strong mindset for reliability and operability: you think in failure modes, automation, and measurable outcomes (SLOs).
* Security awareness and discipline: you build guardrails that make the secure path the easy path.
* A builder mindset: you ship improvements, measure impact (lead time, deploy frequency, MTTR), and iterate.
* Comfort with ambiguity and ownership: you proactively identify platform bottlenecks and fix them without waiting for perfect specs.
* 4+ years experience in relevant roles (startup/scale-up experience is a plus).
Benefits
* Build the platform behind agentic AI systems that run in real enterprise environments
* Massive autonomy, zero bureaucracy
* Immediate impact — your work accelerates every engineer and every release
* Modern stack, no legacy constraints
* Competitive salary + meaningful equity
* High-end equipment
🛠️ Tech Stack You’ll Work With
* AWS (core services; compute, networking, IAM, logging/monitoring, managed data services)
* Terraform (modules, workspaces, validation, state management)
* GitHub (Actions, CI/CD workflows, checks, release automation)
* Containers orchestration (e.g., ECS/Fargate and/or Kubernetes depending on evolution)
* Observability tooling (metrics, logs, tracing; e.g., Grafana/Prometheus/OpenTelemetry and friends)
* Security tooling (SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, secrets scanning, policy as code
Skills Required
- Strong experience as a Platform / DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer in product teams shipping to production
- Deep practical knowledge of AWS (networking, IAM, security controls, designing for failure)
- Hands-on expertise with Terraform (modules, state strategy, DRY patterns, environment separation, automated reviews)
- Solid CI/CD engineering experience with GitHub (pipeline design, artifact/versioning, deployment safety, fast feedback loops)
- Strong mindset for reliability and operability (failure modes, automation, measurable outcomes/SLOs)
- Security awareness and discipline; implement guardrails for secure-by-default operations
- Builder mindset: ship improvements, measure impact (lead time, deploy frequency, MTTR), and iterate
- Comfort with ambiguity and ownership; proactively identify and fix platform bottlenecks
- 4+ years experience in relevant roles
- Startup/scale-up experience
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The Company
What We Do
Zalion is a procurement AI start-up that develops AI-powered procurement agents designed to automate manual Source-to-Pay processes. Their technology eliminates the manual grind for procurement teams by automating time-consuming tasks such as guided buying, RFQ processing, and quote negotiation, allowing procurement professionals to focus on strategic relationships and higher-value activities instead of administrative busywork.
