Staff / Senior DevOps Engineer (with Database focus)

At HG Insights, we lead the way in technology intelligence, delivering AI-driven insights through advanced data science and scalable big data architecture. We're searching a strong DevOps to support and manage complex cloud operations and database systems. With the recent acquisitions of MadKudu and TrustRadius, we’ve created an agentic GTM ecosystem that eliminates manual handoffs, guesses, and siloed signals and we need a strategic seller to take it to market.

Job Overview

Seeking a Staff / Senior DevOps Engineer experienced in managing data persistence and search layers—including ClickHouse, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch. The ideal candidate will have expertise in cloud-native operations across AWS and GCP, CI / CD automation using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, Kubernetes management (EKS, GKE), and Infrastructure-as-Code with both legacy Terraform scripts and Terraform Cloud.

Key Responsibilities

Data Persistence & Search Management

• Administer, monitor, and optimize ClickHouse, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch clusters for performance, security, and high availability.
• Implement scaling strategies, backup and recovery solutions, and robust security policies for all data layers.
• Troubleshoot search infrastructure (Elasticsearch) issues and maintain healthy indexes and resilient data pipelines.
• Conduct capacity planning and performance analysis to optimize database infrastructure utilization and identify scaling constraints before they impact production Evaluate and implement vertical scaling strategies, read replicas, caching layers, and query optimization to maximize performance within infrastructure constraints
• Configure detailed database performance monitoring including query analysis, slow query identification, connection pooling metrics, and resource utilization tracking

CI / CD & Source Code Workflows

Cloud & Kubernetes Operations

Infrastructure as Code

Collaboration & Documentation

Observability & Monitoring

Required Skills & Qualifications

Preferred Skills