Senior DevOps Engineer — Remote

About Ayla Networks

Ayla Networks is a full-stack IoT platform and managed services partner for consumer smart home brands. Since 2010, Ayla has helped its customers build, grow, and evolve connected product ecosystems, handling the infrastructure, security, and OTA updates required to deliver world-class connected experiences at scale. Ayla provides a flexible architecture that works with any device, hardware, or communication protocol, empowering manufacturers to bring truly differentiated products to market. Trusted by leading global consumer brands, Ayla has activated more than 15 million devices worldwide and manages billions of transactions each month.

Our platform spans device connectivity, cloud services, mobile applications, device and user management, data services, security, analytics, and lifecycle management. This creates an opportunity for our DevOps engineers to work on complex, large-scale systems that have a direct impact on millions of connected products and their users around the world.

We are looking for an exceptional Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Ayla DevOps team. You will be a key member of a global engineering organization responsible for the infrastructure and services that manage devices, users, and data. This is a highly visible role with the opportunity to influence infrastructure architecture, reliability, automation, cloud efficiency, and the future evolution of Ayla's global platform.

What You Will Be Doing

• Work in a collaborative, engineering culture where teams work together to solve challenging technical problems.
• Manage and improve highly scalable, reliable systems supporting millions of devices and users across seven geographically distributed platform instances.
• Play a significant role in the reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency of Ayla's global cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders and peers across multiple countries to develop repeatable and scalable objectives.
• Work closely with the U.S. Vice President of DevOps to plan and execute short- and long-term infrastructure improvement initiatives, including architecture, budgeting, implementation, and cloud cost optimization.
• Identify opportunities for automation and other process enhancements.
• Participate in a scheduled 24/7 on-call rotation supporting production systems.

Desired Skills and Experience

• 8+ years of industry experience supporting Docker-based microservices, PaaS environments, and cloud technologies.
• 5+ years of networking experience supporting high-availability applications on AWS and GCP. Experience with both platforms is preferred, including HTTP- and MQTT-based ingestion and messaging solutions.
• Proficiency in Linux with 5+ years of hands-on experience in system administration, user and machine administration, package management, and scripting using Python and Bash.
• 5+ years of experience deploying and operating cloud applications, including AWS and GCP. Azure experience is a plus.
• 3+ years of experience managing high-availability Kafka clusters, with a strong understanding of Kafka internals, including brokers, producers, consumers, and partitions.
• 3+ years of database administration experience with technologies such as MySQL, Cassandra, or other NoSQL databases.
• 3+ years of experience in log collection and analysis, performance monitoring/tuning, using tools such as Coralogix, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, New Relic, Datadog, or similar platforms.
• 3+ years of experience with infrastructure automation tools, particularly Terraform. Ansible experience is also valuable.
• Proficiency with modern CI/CD tools, automation practices, and deployment workflows.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development and automation tools such as Claude (preferred), Cursor, Gemini, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of DevOps architecture and operations, including infrastructure strategy, capacity planning, budgeting, cost optimization, implementation, reliability, and scalability.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams, functions, countries, and time zones.

Why Join Ayla?

Ayla's platform connects millions of devices and supports global consumer brands, providing challenging engineering problems involving distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, networking, messaging, databases, observability, security, automation, and high availability.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will have influence over both day-to-day operations and the longer-term technical direction of the platform. You will work with an experienced international team while helping shape how Ayla makes its infrastructure more scalable, resilient, automated, and cost-efficient.

If you are a driven DevOps engineer who enjoys solving complex infrastructure problems, improving systems through automation, and making a visible impact on a global technology platform, we would like to hear from you.

Location

This is a 100% remote position with occasional travel. Candidates should be located in the Eastern Time Zone of the United States or Canada, or in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to support effective collaboration with the broader Ayla team.