DevOps Engineer

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About the Role

DevOps Engineer

proactive ownership

If you’re driven by innovation and want to help us build resilient, secure, and automated infrastructure, this is the perfect opportunity for you to make a meaningful impact.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design, maintain, and improve infrastructure

  leveraging AWS and Terraform, with a focus on migrating workloads to Kubernetes for enhanced scalability and resilience.

• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines

  using GitHub Actions to enable faster, more reliable deployments supporting continuous integration and delivery.

• Implement and maintain observability frameworks

  such as monitoring, logging, and alerting using Open Telemetry and New Relic to ensure system health and security.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to embed security best practices, including zero trust policies, and support compliance efforts such as SOC2.

Must-Have Skills

• AW

  S: 5+ years of hands-on experience in designing and managing cloud infrastructure.

• Kubernetes

  : 1+ year of practical experience with container orchestration and management.

• Terraform

  : 2+ years of expertise in infrastructure as code to provision and maintain cloud resources.

• CI/CD

  : 3+ years of experience building and managing continuous integration and delivery pipelines, preferably with GitHub Actions.

• CKA Certification:

  Active Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification required.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Familiarity with

  SOC2

  compliance and associated tooling.
• Strong understanding of

  zero trust security

  policies and their impact on infrastructure and access control.
• Experience with

  Open Telemetry

  and modern observability tools.
• Proficiency in

  New Relic

  or similar dashboarding and alerting platforms.
• Strong scripting skills for automation and operational improvements.
• Experience implementing advanced continuous delivery practices.

If that sounds like your kind of place, we’d love to hear your story.