Fast-growing measurement company looking for a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to help design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS. This role is hands-on and focused on Infrastructure as Code, automation, reliability, and cost conscious cloud operations. You will work closely with application, data, and platform teams to support production systems and improve deployment workflows.
Who we areAdelaide is the leader in one of the fastest-growing areas of advertising: attention measurement and activation.
Since 2020, we've become the trusted media quality measurement partner for 40% of Fortune 50 brands who rely on our award-winning AU metric to plan smarter campaigns, invest in high-quality inventory, and dive stronger business outcomes. Adweek has called Adelaide's AU "the attention economy's most widely recognized metric," and AdExchanger named it "Best measurement/Analytics Capability."
Our business continues to scale rapidly, outperforming the industry with a 35% three-year CAGR. What began as a 9-person startup in 2019 is now a team of more than 75.
The past year brought meaningful expansion. We launched the AU ecosystem, giving brands, media agencies, and publishers a unified way to leverage and transact on AU. We broadened our programmatic footprint with custom bidding in GoogleDV360 and pre-bid targeting in The Trade Desk, and grew our partner roster to over 125 platforms and publishers. Leading brands like Dell, Diageo, an Jaguar Land Rover—along with premium publishers such as Hearst, Spotify, and The New York Times—continue to demonstrate AU's value across the media lifecycle.
Adelaide is backed by prominent investors such as Human Ventures (Joe Marchese), Aperiam Ventures (Joe Zawadzki & Eric Franchi), WGI (Jonah Goodhart), and Irwin Gotlieb.
We have a NYC office and a London WeWork, but operates as a remote-friendly company with flexible work options.
How we workWe're a team of action-oriented doers—management rolls up their sleeves and contributes every day. Our culture is rooted in curiosity and rigor: opinions are held lightly, debated openly, and strengthened through testing. Everyone is encouraged to play a role in shaping planning and strategy.
We're built on belonging and growth—94% of employees report a strong sense of belonging, and 81% say they’re happy at work.
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 learnAn 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
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.
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What We Do
Adelaide is working on a tough problem - measuring the quality of advertising placements - whose solution will impact the direction of the media industry and culture for decades to come. Our vision is to increase the transparency of an $800B industry and create a more fair and equitable market for consumer attention.
Why Work With Us
We are a team of action-oriented doers; management rolls up their sleeves to contribute daily. Our culture is rooted in curiosity and loosely held but rigorously vetted opinions; everyone is encouraged to contribute to planning and strategy.
