Senior DevOps Engineer

<p><strong>About Prophecy</strong></p> <p>The leader in AI-native data preparation and analysis, Prophecy is revolutionizing how the world’s top enterprises turn data chaos into reliable insights. We introduce the AI-native data lifecycle (generate, refine, deploy) where our industry leading AI agents and humans work hand-in-hand in visual and document interfaces to analyze, transform and prepare data, to ship trusted insights at enterprise scale.</p> <p>Don’t miss the rocket ship—join Prophecy and build the next data revolution.</p> <p><strong>Position Summary</strong></p> <p>This is a high-impact opportunity to be a senior DevOps engineer in a fast-growing startup, based in Prophecy’s India engineering center. You will own and evolve the foundations that keep our engineering org fast, secure, and cost-efficient at scale — spanning cloud cost management, security DevOps, and CI/CD and engineering operations. You will work with a team of dynamic engineers who take pride in solving complex problems, and you will have the autonomy to set direction in your areas of ownership.</p> <p><strong>The Impact You Will Have</strong></p> <p><strong>Cloud cost (FinOps)&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own and evolve our cloud cost optimization program across AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake and Bigquery building on the programmatic monitoring and controls&nbsp;</li> <li>Analyze billing, asset-inventory, and utilization data across departments to identify wasteful spend and provide actionable insights to optimize it.</li> <li>Develop and maintain cost optimization strategies, roadmaps, and forecasting models</li> <li>Partner with engineering teams to design cost-efficient architectures without compromising scalability or reliability.</li> <li>Build and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and cost control.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Security DevOps&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>Partner with engineering and security to drive our security-hardening program across workstreams such as identity &amp; access governance, secrets &amp; credential lifecycle, cloud access, and CI/CD hardening.</li> <li>Implement and automate guardrails: secrets management, least-privilege access, credential rotation, and policy-as-code.</li> <li>Build security into our pipelines and infrastructure (SAST/DAST, dependency and image scanning, IaC scanning) and remediate findings with the right owners.</li> <li>Improve monitoring, detection, and audit logging across our cloud, source control, and third-party platforms.</li> <li>Track hardening items to closure and help establish durable processes so the posture holds over time.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Engineering-ops automation</strong></p> <ul> <li>Drive CI/CD stability across our core repos — keeping master builds green, reducing flaky tests, and enforcing healthy merge processes (e.g. controlled force-merge policies with clear custodianship and follow-up).</li> <li>Build observability into our build and test systems — dashboards on build health, failure categories, force merges, and test reliability — to make problems visible and drive them down.</li> <li>Identify and quarantine, fix, or retire flaky and low-value tests in partnership with repo owners.</li> <li>Develop internal tools and automation to improve developer productivity (CI/CD pipelines, observability, local dev environments, release tooling, etc.).</li> <li>Identify recurring engineering-ops toil and automate it away.</li> <li>Stay current with modern DevOps, FinOps, security, and developer-productivity tooling to continuously improve our processes.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What You’ll Need</strong></p> <ul> <li>5–10 years of overall systems/infrastructure engineering experience, including hands-on work building and operating infrastructure platform-as-a-service capabilities.</li> <li>Strong hands-on knowledge of cloud services (compute, storage, networking, databases, containers) across at least one major cloud; familiarity with AWS, Azure, and GCP is a plus.</li> <li>Proven experience with cloud cost optimization (FinOps) — measuring, monitoring, and driving down spend.</li> <li>Solid grounding in security DevOps — secrets management, IAM/least-privilege, credential lifecycle, and securing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure.</li> <li>Hands-on experience driving CI/CD stability and reliability (build health, flaky-test management, pipeline tooling) with systems like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.</li> <li>Proficiency in scripting and automation (Go, Python, Bash/Shell, or similar).</li> <li>Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.).</li> <li>Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK, etc.).</li> <li>Background working in modern tech companies/startups focused on scaling, security, and developer productivity.</li> <li>Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance cost, security, performance, and developer needs.</li> <li>Strong desire to work in a not-well-structured, fast-moving startup environment.</li> <li>B Tech or above degree in CS or equivalent.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience with Go.</li> <li>Experience with policy-as-code and pipeline security tooling (SAST/DAST, dependency/image/IaC scanning).</li> <li>Full-stack infrastructure knowledge.</li> <li>Good understanding of computer architecture, networking, and CS fundamentals.</li> <li>Proficiency in Linux.</li> <li>Ability to assess new technologies and make pragmatic choices that help guide us towards a long-term vision.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What You’ll Have At Prophecy</strong></p> <ul> <li>Great culture</li> <li>Fair and open equity awards for everyone</li> <li>Amazing work</li> <li>Private medical insurance</li> <li>Flexible time off</li> <li>Manage your own growth and career</li> <li>Experience building a transformative product</li> <li>High learning opportunity</li> <li>End-to-end ownership of your projects</li> </ul>