About BELVA AI

At BELVA, we’re not just building technology—we’re redefining how people interact with it.

We believe technology should serve a higher purpose: making life better. Our mission is to liberate individuals from repetitive, manual tasks so they can focus on what truly matters. With ethical, privacy-first AI at our core, we empower people and organizations to work smarter and reclaim their time.

BELVA is a trailblazing AI company driven by curiosity, grit, and an unwavering commitment to progress. We value passion, attitude, and potential over pedigrees—because while skills can be learned, vision and leadership must come from within. If you're eager to shape the future of AI and build tools that genuinely serve people, we’d love to hear from you.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team as our first dedicated DevOps hire. This is a pivotal role that offers the opportunity to define and lead the infrastructure, automation, and deployment strategy for a fast-growing AI company.

As a senior individual contributor, you will take full ownership of our cloud infrastructure, observability stack, deployment pipelines, and security practices. You’ll lead efforts to establish SOC2 and HIPAA compliance, implement infrastructure-as-code, and build scalable DevOps practices that support rapid product iteration without sacrificing reliability or security.

Key Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of the company’s AWS-based cloud infrastructure.
• Design, implement, and maintain modern DevOps best practices across environments and teams.
• Lead SOC2 and HIPAA compliance efforts, including audit preparation and remediation.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, including support for Blue/Green and Canary deployments.
• Migrate infrastructure to a fully infrastructure-as-code approach using tools such as Terraform.
• Establish observability systems with actionable dashboards, logging, metrics, and alerts.
• Implement and manage security and access controls suitable for a growing SaaS product.
• Collaborate with the engineering team to drive best practices for scalable, reliable operations.

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Employee assistance program
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes (EKS or similar).
• Demonstrated success as the first or sole DevOps engineer within a startup or early-stage company.
• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi).
• Experience building CI/CD systems from scratch.
• Proficiency with monitoring and observability tools and best practices.
• Direct experience leading or supporting SOC2, HIPAA, or equivalent compliance frameworks.
• Ability to lead discussions on uptime, deployment reliability, and security strategy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with tools such as DataDog, MongoDB, Vercel, and Uvicorn.
• Experience supporting MLOps or large language model (LLM) operations.
• Experience deploying and managing private LLM model servers.
• Hands-on experience with private artifact repositories (e.g., Artifactory, self-hosted PyPI/NPM).
• Experience with ephemeral development environments and per-branch preview deployments.
• Background in mobile DevOps (e.g., React Native CI/CD pipelines).