Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer, Halcyon
$190-220k
+ Equity + Bonus Target: 10%
Cybersecurity tools to protect against ransomware
Open for applications
Cybersecurity tools to protect against ransomware
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$190-220k
+ Equity + Bonus Target: 10%
201-500 employees
Company mission
Halcyon's mission is to defeat ransomware.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and DevOps engineering, with 2+ years leading technically (as a tech lead, principal, or architect)
- Deep experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform preferred)
- Proficient with Kubernetes and deployment tooling such as Helm
- You know CI/CD inside and out—GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, whatever gets the job done
- You can script in Python, Bash, or something similar
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog, or ELK/OpenSearch
- Strong understanding of cloud security practices: IAM, encryption, secure network design, compliance
- Proven ability to mentor, lead technical initiatives, and drive strategic outcomes
- Solid understanding of systems performance and reliability, with experience improving deployment reliability and infrastructure scalability
- Comfortable working in a polyglot environment (e.g., Scala, C#, Python)
- You’ve got strong opinions on infrastructure—and the humility to evolve them
- You care about security, performance, and doing things the right way
- You’re collaborative, curious, and not afraid to get in the weeds
Desirable
- You’ve worked with Kafka, Postgres, DynamoDB, or OpenSearch
- You’ve designed for multi-region, high-availability environments
- You’ve played with service mesh tools like Istio
- AWS certifications? Cool, but not required
What the job involves
- As our Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer, you’ll take technical ownership of our cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices
- This role blends deep hands-on engineering with functional leadership. You’ll design resilient systems, scale infrastructure, mentor engineers, and collaborate across product, platform, and security teams
- This is a senior individual contributor role—not a management position—ideal for someone who wants to shape technical direction, lead by example, and remain deeply technical
- Set technical direction for infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and automation within the DevOps function
- Architect and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, Kubernetes, and related tooling
- Own and improve CI/CD workflows, enabling fast and reliable deployments across teams
- Mentor and support DevOps engineers, fostering autonomy, quality, and professional growth
- Define and track operational metrics, including deployment success rate, infrastructure cost, scaling efficiency, and recovery time
- Drive incident readiness and response, ensuring strong observability and alerting across systems
- Collaborate cross-functionally to align infrastructure goals with broader product and platform objectives
Our take
As cyber attacks become increasingly complex, especially in the mode of ransomware, companies such as Halcyon are becoming an ever more important weapon in the fight for cybersecurity. Though only formed in 2021, its founders have extensive experience as researchers at cybersecurity unicorn Cylance, amongst other notable companies in the sector.
Halcyon’s product stands out from similar - and abundant - offerings thanks to its melding of multi-proprietary advanced prevention engines and AI models designed specifically to seek out and destroy ransomware threats. It's the flexibility and reactivity of these two multi-tiered facets that have made Halcyon a trusted partner for companies on the Forbes Global 2000 list.
With significant funding behind it, Halcyon will ramp up the development of its platform's features and continue expanding its customer base.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2024
$100m
SERIES C
Dec 2023
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $204m
Company benefits
- A Remote Native Global Team - As a remote first, completely distributed team, we recognize great talent can exist anywhere. We invite you to apply to a job you’re interested in and we'll work a plan to meet your needs.
- Health & Wellness - We offer comprehensive health benefits to meet you and your family’s needs, including 100% covered Medical, Dental and Vision insurance for you and all your dependents.
- Competitive Compensation Packages - We offer competitive compensation packages with equity, depending on position, along with a generously matched retirement plan, unlimited PTO, paid sick time and holidays
- Future Planning & Time Off - We offer paid time off to take care of yourself! Relax and recharge on us. We also include paid parental leave, short & long term disability insurance, life insurance and more
Company HQ
Congress Avenue Historic District, Austin, TX
Leadership
Jon Miller
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously CEO and Founder at Boldend, Advisory Board member at Cylance, Vice President at Accuvant LABS, Managing Consultant at IBM.
Ryan Smith
(CTO & Co-Founder)Currently Owner at Hustle Labs. Previously Chief Research Officer at Boldend, Advisory Board Member at Cylance.
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