DevOps Lead

📋 Job Overview

As DevOps Engineer II at NEURAL EARTH, you'll own the steady-state reliability of our infrastructure: keeping CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments, and monitoring running smoothly so the rest of engineering can move fast without friction. This is an execution-focused role. Speed and reliable day-to-day operation matter more here than deep architectural ownership.

🏢 About NEURAL EARTH

We are NEURAL EARTH. We bring clarity to physical risk, enabling leaders to engage with confidence and enact resilient, business-critical decisions. Today's environmental, economic, and infrastructure challenges are deeply interconnected, yet the data required to understand these relationships is scattered across siloed and aging systems. Neural Earth enables operational execution, delivering a single decision intelligence platform that unifies planetary, governmental, and asset-level data, always on and always learning. This is technical work that requires patience. It requires teams willing to operate at the intersection of AI research, geospatial science, distributed systems, and enterprise deployment. It is also incredibly rewarding. Join us at Neural Earth — the next frontier is here.

🎯 The Role

You'll join Neural Earth's Product Engineering organization, working across the infrastructure, security, and reliability layer that underpins every product line we ship. You'll work closely with our DevOps and platform team, most directly with your manager, to keep deployment, observability, and cloud infrastructure running smoothly day to day as we scale.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Maintain our CI/CD pipelines and containerized infrastructure (Docker, ECS/ECR Fargate, Terraform), keeping deployments fast and reliable day to day
• Monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS, catching and resolving issues before they affect customers
• Support incident response, helping triage and resolve production issues as they come up
• Execute steady-state maintenance and operational work, freeing up senior team members to focus on architecture and security priorities
• Ramp into our existing systems and tooling, building depth over time as you take on more ownership

📌 Required Qualifications

• 2 to 5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering
• Working experience with Docker, AWS (ECS/ECR Fargate), and Terraform. Strong Azure or GCP experience is also welcome. Python scripting and Kubernetes experience are both a plus
• Cybersecurity experience, including CMMC or ISO 27001/2, is a big plus, not required
• Experience with AI coding agents (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code)
• Ability to accommodate up to 10% travel

⭐ Desirable Experience

• You have hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code
• You're comfortable operating in AWS environments day to day (strong Azure or GCP experience translates well too)
• You've worked with Docker and container orchestration in a production setting; experience with Kubernetes is a big plus as it's on our roadmap
• You're comfortable with Python for scripting and automation, and you've used AI coding agents (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) in your workflow, or are eager to
• You know how to keep CI/CD pipelines running smoothly and troubleshoot when they break
• You move quickly and reliably on operational work without needing everything spelled out
• You're comfortable jumping into existing systems and learning as you go, eager to grow your skills and take on more scope over time
• You communicate clearly when something's broken or at risk, even under time pressure
• You care about doing the fundamentals well and consistently, not just the interesting problems
• Bonus: you have cybersecurity experience, including CMMC or ISO 27001/2

🎁 Benefits

The salary range for this position is $125,000 - $156,000 annually, reflecting progression within the role based on demonstrated growth and impact.

At Neural Earth, taking care of our people isn't just something we strive for, it's who we are. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to support you at every stage, whether you're advancing your career, growing your family, or planning for the future. From day one, you'll have access to:

• Competitive base compensation regardless of work location
• Company performance-based cash bonuses
• Majority employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Group Life Insurance at 2x your base salary, paid by the company
• FSA and HSA options to maximize your healthcare dollars

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Ability to accommodate up to 10% travel.